Saquon Barkley unloaded on his many critics this week. The New York Giants running back is done with the whole “Barkley dances too much” or “Barkley needs to get north and south faster” commentary.
An anonymous coach put Barkley on blast when ranking this year’s running backs.
“I’m down on him — he still doesn’t know how to play running back enough,” the anonymous coach said. “He’s a bouncer. He wants every run to be a home run. He’s going to have to learn that 4-yard runs in this league are good, instead of stopping, cutting it back and losing 2. And he gets his ass kicked in protection.”
It seemed clear that Barkley was aware of the ESPN article, or at least the perception of his running style.
“I know … a thing that’s been said about me is he don’t know what he’s doing, he’s just dancing back there,” Barkley said. “I’m really kind of fed up with people who never played the position and try to speak on how I run the football. We call them All-Pros with clickers in their hand.”
“Running back is a tough position, but it’s easy to be there and watch football and watch on TV or even watch film and stop the clip and say he should have made that cut.”
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Barkley did acknowledge that the head coach and his staff want a physical running style.
“The coaches have been making a point of emphasis of, a running style that we have as a team and the mentality that we have as a team and like I said, I want to do whatever coach wants me to do and that’s been my focus which — trying to be the best running back I can be for the team.
“Coach has kind of an emphasis, meaning we want to get more physical, we want to get more downhill.”
Barkley played but had a terrible season last year, rushing for 593 yards and two touchdowns on a team that posted a 4-13 record.
