Eric Dickerson’s single-season speeding file has stood for 40 years, and he doesn’t assume it’ll fall this season to Philadelphia Eagles working again Saquon Barkley.
Barkley enters the Eagles’ stretch run with 1,838 yards, leaving him simply 268 yards away from breaking the file.
He doubtlessly has two video games to interrupt it, assuming the Eagles don’t sit him in a doubtlessly meaningless Week 18 recreation.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Instances this week, Dickerson said he doubts Barkley will get the yardage required to turn into the brand new single-season record-holder. Not solely that, however he doesn’t need Barkley to take his file.
“I don’t assume he’ll break it. But when he breaks it, he breaks it. Do I would like him to interrupt it? Completely not. I don’t pull no punches on that. However I’m not whining about it. He had 17 video games to do it. Hey, soccer is soccer. That’s the best way I have a look at it. If he’s lucky to recover from 2,000 yards and get the file, it’s an excellent file to have.”
Dickerson shouldn’t be bothered by the very fact Barkley would doubtlessly have a seventeenth recreation to interrupt his file in, stating that he reached 2,000 yards initially in 15 video games when O.J. Simpson — whose file Dickerson broke — did it in 14 video games. He additionally famous that 2,000 yards is a large accomplishment, irrespective of what number of video games it takes. He’s proper, as solely eight working backs have ever performed it.
Having mentioned all of that, Dickerson might be right in that Barkley is unlikely to get the 268 yards he wants.
For one, he would wish to common 134 yards if he performed in each video games. As nice as Barkley’s season has been, he has topped 134 yards only one time over the previous 4 weeks.
There’s additionally the likelihood that Barkley won’t even play within the Eagles’ Week 18 recreation.
In the event that they clinch the NFC East on Sunday with a win over the Dallas Cowboys, the Eagles would have just about nothing to play for in Week 18 towards the New York Giants until they get some critical assist in the search for the No. 1 seed.
As a lot as Barkley would possibly like to interrupt the file, and as a lot as he would possibly love to do it towards his former group, it might merely not be well worth the threat with the playoffs looming.
Topping the two,000-yard mark is actually inside vary for Barkley this week, however odds are he’s most likely going to fall simply in need of the file.
