Saquon Barkley’s most passionate remark Sunday night time in Jersey City was his final one.
While lamenting groups’ suppression of the operating again market through the use of the franchise tag, Barkley pivoted into an in depth clarification of why not each operating again’s scenario is equivalent.
Every group is, in his phrases, “different.”
“There’s a [stat] that goes up about quarterbacks in the Super Bowl and how many rushing yards the top rusher [has], but every team is not — like Pat Mahomes is a two-time Super bowl MVP, two-time MVP. And not everybody has Pat Mahomes,” Barkley stated at his AMPT Events youngsters’ soccer camp. “And that is no knock to Daniel Jones. So don’t even attempt to flip it like that.
“And then you look at the Eagles,” Barkley added. “Jalen Hurts is a great quarterback. That team is amazing. But every team is not the Eagles. Every team don’t have that much talent.”
That’s when Barkley dissected his place on the Giants.
“When you come to my situation,” he stated, “while you come to me personally, I really feel like I helped our group lots. I really feel like not solely on the sphere however off the sphere … [and] as a frontrunner. Obviously there’s a dialog about my numbers happening. I believe there’s an entire lot of different stuff that occurred to play [into that].
“We were a one-dimensional team in the beginning of the season,” an emotional Barkley stated. “We were running the ball. We have a great coach. We played the Detroit Lions. They came in, bust[ed] that ass, stopped me, and we had to switch it up. We have a great coach, with [Brian Daboll] and [offensive coordinator Mike Kafka], and we had a whole new game plan. We came out and found a way to get the job done and make it to the playoffs.”
The Giants have been 7-2 of their first 9 common season video games utilizing that one-dimensional, run-heavy offense and 2-5-1 after. So Barkley makes a powerful case.
What’s lacking from his argument to this point, nevertheless, are the specifics of the contract presents he has turned down that haven’t proven him sufficient “respect.”
Barkley and his agent made the choice to remain quiet from January by way of May in regards to the Giants contract negotiations. Barkley thought that discretion can be honored each methods, and he believes it wasn’t.
But damaged belief doesn’t change the truth that Barkley was the one who needed to defend himself on Sunday towards the general public notion that he already turned down huge cash.
He intimated that the assured cash in these reported contract presents was a lot decrease than the leaks portrayed.
“I said I’m not trying to reset the market. I said I wanted to be a Giant for life. So I’ll let you guys read in between the lines for that,” Barkley stated.
Barkley remains to be combating an uphill public relations battle, although.
In January, a supply stated Barkley had turned down a three-year supply value between $12-12.5 million per yr on common. In May, NJ Advance Media reported the Giants had elevated that quantity to $13 million a yr after the season with incentives that will get it to $14 million.
Barkley’s agent, Kim Miale of Roc Nation, solely commented publicly as soon as in May in response to the assertion that Barkley was holding agency on a $16 million a yr ask.
“This is not true,” Miale tweeted on May 13.
But it will be useful to know if Giants GM Joe Schoen’s presents have been filled with per-game roster bonuses, or low assured cash, or an escape hatch after yr one, or another poison capsule that nobody may blame Barkley for balking at and sending again.
Right now, public notion sadly stays largely unsympathetic to operating backs as an entire and even to Barkley, it appears. Large swaths of Giants followers on social media are stressed that Barkley hasn’t accepted the alleged presents they’ve heard about.
That’s why Barkley took up for all operating backs on Sunday; not simply himself.
“What I will say about the running back market and the value of it: what do you think is gonna happen? They tagged the top 3 guys,” he stated, referring to the Raiders’ Josh Jacobs, the Cowboys’ Tony Pollard and himself. “We didn’t get an opportunity to hit the open market. So once we don’t get the prospect to hit the open market, it hurts a man like Miles [Sanders in free agency]. It hurts all these different guys. They put the cap at 10 [million].
“I think it’s not fair,” Barkley stated of this market growth. “Because the Tennessee Titans are an awesome group, however Derrick Henry is a kind of guys on these groups. San Francisco is a superb group, however Christian McCaffrey is a kind of guys on the group. Josh Jacobs, the record goes on and on.
“And I think when you talk about the New York Giants, even peers came out and said it: I have a lot of respect in this league,” he stated. “And I think that’s how I should be viewed.”
The greatest end result right here, after all, can be for the Giants and Barkley to discover a center floor and get a multi-year extension executed.
Assuming this standoff drags on, although, the lingering query is simply how deceptive these contract leaks have been, what the contract presents truly contained, and if the reality would flip the general public notion battle again within the Giants’ laps for nickel-and-diming an vital participant.
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