Odell Beckham says football isn't fun anymore -- which, on the surface sounds preposterous since he racked up 2,755 receiving yards and 25 touchdowns in his first two seasons. But he's off to a frustrating start in Year 3, the lowlight coming in Monday night's loss to the Vikings where he managed just four receptions for 22 yards and another stupid personal-foul penalty.

All the pouting has led to coaches -- both former and current -- calling Beckham a distraction, though the Jets' Brandon Marshall, who has had is own issues in the past, warns that all the in-house criticism could result in the Giants losing Beckham.

Well, NFL Today analyst and former Ravens and Jets linebacker Bart Scott feels the direct approach is best when dealing with a diva in the locker room.

"Listen, you can go out there with all that tough-guy stuff," Scott said during an appearance on CBS Sports Radio's The DA Show. "If you come in here with these goons, (watch out). I would choke the hell out of Odell Beckham if he came here with that. I'm used to dealing with 350-pound guys. You ain't in this weight class."

And Scott isn't speaking metaphorically. He will literally choke you.

"I've choked plenty of players," he said. "I've choked plenty of players. Listen, you can come up here if you want to. You're leaving differently than you came in. I'd pull his hair back and smack the hell out of him. Listen, you know better. And then it got to be a disrespectful one. You don't hit him with the front of the hand; you hit him with the back hand. Listen, if you backhand a grown man and he know he can't do nothing, you break his will. He gotta leave. Somebody gotta die."

So there you go, Ben McAdoo, there's your road map to getting Beckham back in line.

Scott's comments come a week after he criticized Beckham for whining in the Giants' loss to the Redskins (which included Beckham getting slapped around by a kicking net).

"Somebody needs to pull him to the side and, like Herman Edwards said, you have to take him out and sit him down and give (rookie Sterling) Shepard an opportunity," Scott explained. "When great players see that the team can win without them, then you take some of his power and he has to be more honest. But as long as he's out there and he's having his temper tantrums and there's no consequences because you care more about winning than sending a message to your entire team, (that's a problem)."

Jon Gruden made a similar argument and we don't buy it. Randy Moss and Terrell Owens were both mercurial, both threw temper tantrums, and both were usually the best players on their respective teams. Oh, and both are going to be Hall of Famers. Yes, Beckham needs to control his emotions, but the Giants are immeasurably worse with him on the sidelines.

Scott remains unconvinced.

"McAdoo is a young coach," he continued. "He needs to make sure that he lets everybody know he's the all-powerful, that he will sit anybody down. Right now, they're just walking all over him. It's kind of like when the substitute teacher comes in and you don't listen to him or anything because you don't care -- because he's just a substitute. McAdoo is going to have to pull a power play to show that he has power and nobody's above the rules."