The same emotion that fuels New York Giants star wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. may be used against him. At least that's what former Giants defender Justin Tuck would do if he were the opposition.

Tuck doesn't just mean on the field, either. He sees other teams potentially targeting Beckham in the lead-up to future matchups.

"I don't think in my short memory I've seen anyone as emotional as Beckham is. And one other play you can say on this is, if I'm a defensive coordinator or a defensive team coming in and playing Beckham, you can also play that to your ... I mean, that is probably why you're going to see a lot of people say things in the media. A lot of people might go at Beckham in different ways because they know he is emotional, and they know that in the past that has taken him out of his game," Tuck said on 98.7 FM ESPN New York. "So that can be something that defensive scouting reports will say: 'Hey, we can utilize this to take him out of his game.'"

One theory is that the Redskins leaked their plan that Beckham's archnemesis, Josh Norman, would follow him around the field early last week. They wanted it to marinate for the entire week in the volatile receiver's head that he would be locked in that one-on-one matchup.

Beckham and Norman lined up opposite each other on 53 of 61 snaps in Sunday's 29-27 Redskins victory over the Giants at MetLife Stadium. Beckham finished with seven catches for 121 yards. But he also allowed his frustration to get the best of him after a fourth-quarter interception by quarterback Eli Manning. Beckham tangled with the kicking net (and lost!) and stomped angrily up and down the sideline afterward.

Manning felt the need to address his top weapon on the sideline. Coach Ben McAdoo said he twice talked with Beckham during the contest, and that the Giants need to find a solution to these outbursts, even if they occur outside the white lines.

"He needs to control his emotions better and become less of a distraction to himself and to his teammates," McAdoo said during a Monday conference call. "It's our job to help him with that process and maturing."

Tuck wasn't surprised that McAdoo addressed the situation, even if it was an interesting approach to take it public.

"Coach McAdoo would know better how to approach this one. He gets to work with Beckham on a day-to-day basis, and he knows firsthand if those emotions have been affecting his team negatively. And if they have been, he has to say something," Tuck said. "I don't know if the right answer is to say it in the media or go to Beckham. I don't know that answer.

"Obviously, he felt as though it was the right play to do it in the media. Hopefully, at the end of the day, it helps the football team. As I said earlier, those emotions can hurt a team negatively. They don't always do that, but they can. And obviously, he feels they did and he addressed it."

Tuck, who played with the Giants from 2005-13, never had a teammate quite like Beckham, despite some unique personalities on those teams. There was Plaxico Burress, Jeremy Shockey and even Michael Strahan.

But Tuck didn't find any of them to be quite as emotional as Beckham. "The only player I can kind of equate it to is probably [running back] Brandon Jacobs," he said. "But it's a little different, I think, in his play.

"So again, if I'm in the locker room, definitely would know how, one, if those reactions or those emotions either benefit or negatively affect our football team and go from there, and two, how to calm him down or use that as motivation for other guys -- to say, 'Why aren't you this excited?' It can go either way."

McAdoo obviously feels No. 1, in some kind of negative way. He mentioned that Beckham's emotions were a distraction, one that Tuck believes the opposition is going to use against Beckham and the Giants.

That's a problem, one the Giants must figure out how to solve before it becomes a weekly occurrence.