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Bills players bash Odell Beckham Jr., accuse him of throwing punches

Buffalo Bills players told the Buffalo News that New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. threw multiple punches after the whistle in Sunday's Giants victory.

Several Bills players called out Beckham and had some pointed words for his actions.

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Cornerback Stephon Gilmore intercepted an Eli Manning pass late in the fourth quarter, and on the play (pictured in the video above) you can see Beckham appearing to get up after being blocked and throwing a punch at safety Duke Williams.

“I don’t know what’s up with him," Gilmore said. "He acts like nobody’s supposed to hit him and you’re supposed to let him catch the ball. He’s weird. He gets mad when you play physical with him. He’s weird.

“He’s different. It’s kind of like you’re playing your little brother and he gets mad at you for being too physical with him — throwing a tantrum. I’m like, ‘Man, we’re playing football. It’s a physical game. ... He’s a prima donna. He feels like he’s on top of the world and nobody’s supposed to do anything to him."

Williams added his thoughts on Beckham and the play in question.

“A guy like that," Williams said, "you expect him to be a stand-up guy but I guess it is a part of his game. He likes to throw cheap shots here and there and gets away with it. I guess it’s his thing. ...Right in front of the referee and he threw a jab at me and ran behind his teammates. He ran away. I’m just like, ‘Wow. That’s crazy.’”

No penalty was called on that play.

“I just put my hands up like, ‘You’re not going to call the foul?'" Williams said. "He didn’t call anything.”

Added Gilmore:

"What’s the reason to do that? I think he got mad Duke blocked him and that’s what he’s supposed to do.”

On a different play, linebacker Preston Brown was flagged 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct — one of 17 penalties in the game by the Bills on Sunday — in retaliation of Beckham's initial punch.

“They were doing everything in the book they could to try to get a free 15 [yards]," Brown said. "They would say anything they thought would rile us up. Words usually don’t do anything, but when they start swinging at you — they did that a lot. They were throwing a lot of cheap shots.”

The public image of Beckham is of the player who has taken the league by storm with his insane catches — those that count and even those that don't. But the Bills have suggested that not only was Beckham guilty of dirty plays in their game in Week 4 but in prior contests they had seen when studying the tape.

“That’s what he does. He’ll get away with it," Brown said. "He’s the ‘golden boy’ of the league. He’s on the cover of 'Madden.' Sometimes, you get away with stuff like that.”

Gilmore said he studies receivers the league round, but that Beckham — whom the Bills held to five catches for 38 yards on 12 targets — is not all he's cracked up to be, despite the best first 16-game production for a receiver in NFL history.

"His world is based on hype and that one catch," Gilmore said. "Everybody sees that, everybody knows him for that and people don’t really look at the film and watch him and really don’t know what type of player he is."

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Eric Edholm is a writer for Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at edholm@yahoo-inc.com or follow him on Twitter!