Veteran safety Sterling Moore pulled no punches in the Saints locker room, saying the Giants’ star wide receiver regularly commits offensive pass interference that is ignored by the officials and was allowed to continue unabated again Sunday.
What set Moore off was the highly questionable, 23-yard interference penalty he got in the first quarter while defending Beckham on a third-and-8 play near midfield that gave the Giants the ball at the New Orleans 24.
Moore’s disgust only grew on the next play, when he said Beckham was allowed to get overly physical en route to a 13-yard completion.
“I didn’t like it, man,” said Moore, a journeyman in his first season with the Saints. “It was one of those things where [Beckham] is trying to pull himself through. He does that a lot, and he kind of gets away with it at times. It’s something I mentioned to the refs. It is what it is.”
Added fellow safety Kenny Vaccaro: “You can sit here and complain if you want, but that’s just the way it is.”
It was especially frustrating for the Saints because their beleaguered defense played one of its best games in years, holding Beckham and the Giants without an offensive touchdown a week after getting torched for 35 points against the Raiders.
Moore said days like Sunday are why defensive backs around the league will start to resign themselves to Beckham — a Louisiana native son who starred at LSU — being given the hands-off star treatment.
“It didn’t surprise me that he was doing it,” Moore told The Post. “But it surprised me that they were letting him do it and were letting us go out there and play. I guess that’s how it’s going to be.”