Saquon Barkley Doesn't Think He'll Be Booed on Sunday
Apparently Saquon Barkley doesn’t think he’ll be booed on Sunday, via Jordan Raanan and Tim McManus at ESPN:
“I don’t expect a great reaction. I don’t expect to be booed,” Barkley said. “I look at it like this: The Philadelphia Eagles and New York Football Giants probably played in over 200 games. This rivalry was there before me, and it’s going to be there after me.”
“Maybe I’m naive, but I think it’s over. That chapter’s closed,” he said before Week 6. “I truly don’t care no more, and I’m pretty sure fans don’t care no more.”
Hate to break it to you Saquon, but you’re going to get booed. This is a fanbase that would boo their own mother if the ziti was a little cold on Christmas. The only way he doesn’t get booed into oblivion is if the Mets and Yankees both make it to the World Series by then. Maybe New Yorkers will be so busy with baseball they won’t care enough about him or the Giants to boo.
Now should he be booed? I don’t think so. We had the rare moment where we saw negotiations play out. We watched Joe Schoen let him test the market. You can’t get mad at a bird for setting it free and then it doesn’t come back:
Joe Schoen telling Saquon Barkley that he’ll let him hit the open market
pic.twitter.com/wIfp4vx5pP— Talkin’ Giants (@TalkinGiants) July 10, 2024
But apparently the Giants front office didn’t see it that way and accused the Eagles of tampering:
The Giants weren’t thrilled that the framework of a deal was reportedly done before the start of the free agent negotiating window, front office sources told ESPN. The Eagles didn’t understand why the Giants cared considering they weren’t making a real push to re-sign the player they drafted No. 2 in the 2018 NFL draft.
Look at the Giants trying to be all high and mighty. Give me a break. If you’re not cheating in the NFL, you’re not trying. How else are deals done five minutes after free agency starts? Plus, the NFL conducted a tampering investigation and the Eagles were exonerated anyway. It’s all hypocrisy because the Giants were never going to offer him a contract. They only got upset because he went to a division rival.
Now he’s visualizing scoring on your asses:
Barkley is big on visualization. It’s something he says he has been doing his entire career.
So, before he steps foot on the MetLife Stadium turf in a visitor’s uniform Sunday, he’ll have pictured big scenes from the upcoming game with the intent of manifesting them.
“I’m pretty sure I’ll visualize breaking a long touchdown run,” Barkley told ESPN, “making plays there. That goes a long way.”
One thing Barkley is having trouble picturing is some kind of over-the-top reaction from the Giants faithful.
Three touchdowns minimum:
Saquon Barkley just posted this “Many Men” edit on his Instagram pic.twitter.com/SCckuQW8If
— Crossing Broad (@CrossingBroad) March 12, 2024