Welp, you can't say the kid doesn't have a point. I'm quite certain it's not the point he tried to make in living up to his billing as an absolute bull of a game-breaker, but a point nonetheless. With a 'Rookie of the Year' award under his belt, there is now nothing more Saquon Barkley can do to prove that he was the right selection at #2 overall for a team that oddly still isn't as desperate for a QB as they should be. In breaking a ton of long touchdown runs and catches while flashing the freakish combination of size, speed, and agility that had him accurately considered the most talented player in the entire class, he added more to the offense than could have possibly been asked of him...for a Giants' team that won all of five games. Now, in the same vein that Saquon Barkley did all he could, he also said the only thing he could in doing his best to defend his draft status. It's not like anyone would ever expect a potentially generational running back to downplay the impact and importance of the position he's dedicated his life to mastering. That said, all the well-deserved accolades in the world wouldn't change the fact that nothing has changed. The New York Giants are still crappy, incompetently managed franchise whose face is aging the exact opposite of gracefully. It's just now they are a crappy, incompetently managed franchise whose face is aging the exact opposite of gracefully, but...oh...look, an exciting toy to continue to waste time beating to shit by way of overuse due to a complete lack of other toys. That's a bit hyperbolic in being a gross mischaracterization of who Saquon Barkley is as a player, but the truth is that you need not do more than five minutes of unwatchable film study to realize it never, ever mattered who Saquon Barkley was as a player. Just sucks he was left to hopelessly attempt to answer to having his role in an NFL offense overvalued when that should always be the job of the idiot who didn't stop at overvaluing it in drawing up a laundry list of inexcusable mistakes.
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