I'll be 1000% Honest. The Eagles gave Saquon Barkley a $37.75 million contract with $26 million in guaranteed money for 3 years. That's an awful lot of money to spend on a runningback who fails to stay healthy for most of his career. With what they are paying for a struggling Jaylen Hurts, ( A $255 Million Extention Deal For 5 Years ) Good Luck in salary cap hell. If they don't make it, Losing nearly $300 Million in cap money is bound to cost the GM and coaches their jobs.
Barkley's first year had me excited. He was a hard guy to bring down. After he got hurt, he seemed to go down with the first tackle. He never fought for more yardage. Good luck playing for the Eagles. If Barkley can run like he did in his rookie season, he's going to be a star.
Listen, SB was a very talented player. But he only played 1 or 2 healthy seasons. Lack of availability makes you useless to your team. We will likely get more production from our new running backs.
I will go further on drafting RBs high and say that ballhandlers should never be taken in the first round. In over thirty years, since the Giants won their first Super Bowl, of all the ballhandlers taken in the first round, only TWO won a Super Bowl with the Giants, Hakeem Nicks and Mark Ingram. In that time, they have used first round picks on running backs Rodney Hampton, Jarrod Bunch, Tyrone Wheatley, Ron Dayne, David Wilson and Saquon Barkley. Hampton got a ring, but did not play in a Super Bowl, getting hurt in the playoffs his rookie season when they won. Dayne played in their defeat in SB XXXV. They had previously drafted in the first round, before SB XXI, George Adams & Butch Woolfolk, neither of whom contributed to that or any other championship. Except for Joe Morris, in 1986, the Giants had a running back committee in their last three Super Bowl winning seasons. In 1990, it was rookie Hampton, until he was hurting the playoffs, with Ottis Anderson, Lewis Tillman and Dave Meggett. In the Coughlin years, it was Brandon Jacobs, Derrick Ward & Ahmad Bradshaw, with Ruben Droughns in short-yardage, or when Jacobs, Ward or Bradshaw was hurt. In 2011, it was Jacobs, Bradshaw & DJ Ware. Even the Super Bowl loss had Tiki Barber & Ron Dayne sharing the duties, with Greg Comella at fullback. But after Joe Morris, we never got to the big game with a franchise back, not with Rodney Hampton, nor Tiki Barber, nor Barkley. It's the same with receivers. We have spent first round picks on wideouts, Mark Ingram, Thomas Lewis, Ike Hilliard, Hakeem Nicks, Odell Beckham & Kadarius Toney and on tight ends Derek Brown, Jeremy Shockey & Evan Engram. Ingram & Nicks won Super Bowls with the Giants, Hilliard, like Dayne, played in a loss, and Shockey, like Hampton, was injured near the end of the season and missed a Super Bowl. Ingram was no one's idea of WR1, and Nicks played second fiddle to UFA Victor Cruz in their Super Bowl winning season. Brown and Lewis were busts and Beckham, like Barkley, played in a single winning season during his whole career with the Giants, despite his amazing talent. You have to go back to Frank Gifford in 1952 to find a running back who helped the Giants win a championship after being drafted in the first round, while the receivers who so succeeded did so as lesser role players, without a single Pro Bowl appearance between Nicks & Ingram. The last time before Barkley the Giants had the #2 pick, they used it on Lawrence Taylor, who was a consensus best player in the draft in a PRE-draft poll of GMs that year. Only two teams did not say they would take Taylor if they had the first pick, one of whom was the New Orleans Saints, who left LT on the board ... to take a running back, George Rogers. Who was playing for another team five years later.
We wasnt paying a guy that was getting phased out cause in 2022 DJ had time to throw & was getting the same amount of running yard with SB on the team. I bet anyone we will win more games this season coming up cause our D line is much better with Burns on the team
My honest assessment of Barkley is he had a great rookie season.then it seems he was injured every season afterwards, he was a good leader but he never made all pro so was he really considered one of the best backs? Wish him well except when he plays the giants by the way they OVERPAID for him 🤷🏾♂️
I'll go further in depth, the three games Barkley missed we were 0-3 and our running backs game totals were 22, 39 and 46 yards, that's a grand total of 107 yards in 3 games. For the season Saquon was THE ONLY back to average more than 3ypc at 3.9, everyone else below 3, and tied for team lead in td receptions. He was the offense, no blocking, no quarterback play and no big play threat optimized in the passing game. In his six years the Giants have had one other player voted to the Pro Bowl, Evan Engram 63 catches 1 td rec. and 1 rushing so he really didn't deserve it. Try and convince me the organization didn't fail him.
I'll be 1000% Honest. The Eagles gave Saquon Barkley a $37.75 million contract with $26 million in guaranteed money for 3 years. That's an awful lot of money to spend on a runningback who fails to stay healthy for most of his career. With what they are paying for a struggling Jaylen Hurts, ( A $255 Million Extention Deal For 5 Years ) Good Luck in salary cap hell. If they don't make it, Losing nearly $300 Million in cap money is bound to cost the GM and coaches their jobs.
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Barkley's first year had me excited. He was a hard guy to bring down. After he got hurt, he seemed to go down with the first tackle. He never fought for more yardage. Good luck playing for the Eagles. If Barkley can run like he did in his rookie season, he's going to be a star.
easily my favorite player after Eli, Cruz, Odell in this post superbowl. (offense)
I wish we could have gotten Derrick Henry after Saquon left.
Listen, SB was a very talented player. But he only played 1 or 2 healthy seasons. Lack of availability makes you useless to your team. We will likely get more production from our new running backs.
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Facts. I agree 100%
I will go further on drafting RBs high and say that ballhandlers should never be taken in the first round. In over thirty years, since the Giants won their first Super Bowl, of all the ballhandlers taken in the first round, only TWO won a Super Bowl with the Giants, Hakeem Nicks and Mark Ingram. In that time, they have used first round picks on running backs Rodney Hampton, Jarrod Bunch, Tyrone Wheatley, Ron Dayne, David Wilson and Saquon Barkley. Hampton got a ring, but did not play in a Super Bowl, getting hurt in the playoffs his rookie season when they won. Dayne played in their defeat in SB XXXV. They had previously drafted in the first round, before SB XXI, George Adams & Butch Woolfolk, neither of whom contributed to that or any other championship. Except for Joe Morris, in 1986, the Giants had a running back committee in their last three Super Bowl winning seasons. In 1990, it was rookie Hampton, until he was hurting the playoffs, with Ottis Anderson, Lewis Tillman and Dave Meggett. In the Coughlin years, it was Brandon Jacobs, Derrick Ward & Ahmad Bradshaw, with Ruben Droughns in short-yardage, or when Jacobs, Ward or Bradshaw was hurt. In 2011, it was Jacobs, Bradshaw & DJ Ware. Even the Super Bowl loss had Tiki Barber & Ron Dayne sharing the duties, with Greg Comella at fullback. But after Joe Morris, we never got to the big game with a franchise back, not with Rodney Hampton, nor Tiki Barber, nor Barkley.
It's the same with receivers. We have spent first round picks on wideouts, Mark Ingram, Thomas Lewis, Ike Hilliard, Hakeem Nicks, Odell Beckham & Kadarius Toney and on tight ends Derek Brown, Jeremy Shockey & Evan Engram. Ingram & Nicks won Super Bowls with the Giants, Hilliard, like Dayne, played in a loss, and Shockey, like Hampton, was injured near the end of the season and missed a Super Bowl. Ingram was no one's idea of WR1, and Nicks played second fiddle to UFA Victor Cruz in their Super Bowl winning season. Brown and Lewis were busts and Beckham, like Barkley, played in a single winning season during his whole career with the Giants, despite his amazing talent. You have to go back to Frank Gifford in 1952 to find a running back who helped the Giants win a championship after being drafted in the first round, while the receivers who so succeeded did so as lesser role players, without a single Pro Bowl appearance between Nicks & Ingram. The last time before Barkley the Giants had the #2 pick, they used it on Lawrence Taylor, who was a consensus best player in the draft in a PRE-draft poll of GMs that year. Only two teams did not say they would take Taylor if they had the first pick, one of whom was the New Orleans Saints, who left LT on the board ... to take a running back, George Rogers. Who was playing for another team five years later.
We wasnt paying a guy that was getting phased out cause in 2022 DJ had time to throw & was getting the same amount of running yard with SB on the team. I bet anyone we will win more games this season coming up cause our D line is much better with Burns on the team
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My honest assessment of Barkley is he had a great rookie season.then it seems he was injured every season afterwards, he was a good leader but he never made all pro so was he really considered one of the best backs? Wish him well except when he plays the giants by the way they OVERPAID for him 🤷🏾♂️
Agree🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
I'll go further in depth, the three games Barkley missed we were 0-3 and our running backs game totals were 22, 39 and 46 yards, that's a grand total of 107 yards in 3 games. For the season Saquon was THE ONLY back to average more than 3ypc at 3.9, everyone else below 3, and tied for team lead in td receptions. He was the offense, no blocking, no quarterback play and no big play threat optimized in the passing game. In his six years the Giants have had one other player voted to the
Pro Bowl, Evan Engram 63 catches 1 td rec. and 1 rushing so he really didn't deserve it. Try and convince me the organization didn't fail him.
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