He's got five years and they did pick up the fifth year
option on him.
And here's the danger was running backs. I know
you got five years in. Yeah, wear and tear injuries. Its
inherent to the position. It's not inherent to the player.
Very few, guys are Emmitt Smith
who can take that pounding and keep going no matter what?
Marshawn, Lynch, take that pounding. Keep going no matter
what guys, get injured.
Look at Christian McCaffrey's contract. Now, look, it's
working out, well, for the 49ers didn't work out. Well,
for the Panthers, all that money, they gave him. And what
did they get? It's not him.
It's the position.
So what do you do? If your sacrum Berkeley he has said
he's not looking to reset the market which is good because
he's not going to. He's not getting 17, 18 million dollars
a year running backs, don't get that, they shouldn't get that,
it's the nature of the position and if running backs out there
have a problem
with it,
you should have maybe picked a different position as Ben Tate.
One of the one of the
many links in this chain of running backs that, you know,
at the time they were guys, you had to get on your fantasy
team. I remember Ben Tate, second round pick of the Texans
out of Auburn had a couple of good years and then that was
that he said, man I should have been a safety
and you know it's that's one of the cruel realities of
football.
The one of the positions that attracts the most athletic,
the fastest the best players on the team
at the earliest stages of the sport where it's as simple as
give the ball to the Best athlete and let him run circles
around everyone.
You end up becoming that player
and you have a short and career
you don't make as much money.
You just got to resist that Temptation when you're a kid
and it's clear that you've got a high degree of skill. That
may parle itself into a future in football. Chris. Yeah, no
it's the brutal aspect of the sport. You're right. And
there's a
lot of pliers that have been
I know of some high school players
up here in the north Jersey area. Other guys where
hey could have been a big time division? One running back?
They said the hell with that because of what you're talking
about. So I do think the younger generate generation is
aware of that but it is it it's cool almost and sometimes why
I wish like the running back position almost didn't count
against the salary cap. Because we see too much where
we see guys who were unbelievable their first three
or four years in the league and they're one of the best running
backs, the best players in the league. And then it come time
to get that contract and they go.
Yep. But you ran between the tackles a whole lot, and you've
been hit by cars and every which direction, so you're not
a good investment anymore. And I do. They could find a fine
line and supporting some of these guys
because there's been a lot of great running backs. You never
saw a second payday because they got beat the s*** and
their first four years in the NFL,
And that's what happens because Supply outweighs demand. Yeah,
every major college has a guy that could play at the NFL
level. They can move the chains at the NFL level. We said
this just yesterday block for him,
trust him not to fumble and trust him not to get
the quarterback, killed and Blitz pickup. Those are the three
ingredients that make for an acceptable NFL running back.
And if you are the one running the ball, if you got a great
offensive line,
yes, something we talk about all the time. When your
offensive line is great. Your offensive line never gets
mentioned. Who gets mentioned are the quarterback,
the receivers a tight end of the running. Back.
So you get a star running back,
who has a skill set that plenty of guys have so he's out there,
he becomes a star. Everybody buys his jersey, he's on
the fantasy team, he's going touchdowns, this is great.
And then yeah, he's chewed up and spit out by the football
machine and income. Somebody else behind that great
offensive line. So that's the challenge. Identifying
the truly special running back and separating him from
the lather, rinse, repeat,
two years, three years, four years.
Or committee approach that became fashionable, 15, 20 years ago,
you have three, guys. You rotate them in and out. You
never have one guy that can hold you hostage at
the bargaining table because you're spreading out the yards. You're
spreading out the touchdowns that drives fantasy football.
People crazy
that may be what the Giants do. Who knows? Who knows,
who knows? But it's going to be it's going to be challenging
to give SE Kwang Berkeley, what he deserves because what he's
done isn't relevant. Chris, what's relevant is what he's
going to do and nobody knows what he's going to do,
especially once he gets paid. Yeah. It's what we don't know
how much
I'm feel pretty safe to say,
he's gonna still be damn good next year, right? Bearing
an ACL injury, right? It's just that? Yes, we're getting
towards the time where you start to worry now with Sake,
One Berkeley to.
I think you would agree.
He is one of those guys. You look at and go. Well, he's one
of the freakiest people I've ever seen. My life. He might be
able to hang around here longer than the normal guy. He might
be able to be more like, you know, your Adrian Peterson,
your Emmitt Smith, that you were kind of mentioning before,
right? And I think the other thing that's good about saying
quote Berkeley is not necessarily a car crash Runner,
especially early in his career.
More of a space runner, make you miss, break your ankles do
all that to wear other than the ACL.
I don't think he's as beat up, maybe, as some fifth year,
running backs are going into Year, running back. So I surely
hope he's back. I think he's still,
you know, top-notch
and as we saw this year in space
and got a little, got some holes this year and they'll
improve that offensive line more than this offseason.
I think he stole is going to be top running back and football
conversation next year and maybe a year
or two after that with the way his body is in the way he looks
right now.
Yeah. The other reality to and this has gotten plenty.
Running backs paid over the years. The extent to which
the fan base has fallen in love with my God. Yeah can we bear
to move on from? He was a second overall pick in 2018
even though that isn't Joe Shane or Brian De ball, there's
an Institutional
attachment to se Kwang. Barker how can we let say qualms
Berkeley go? Especially after the year that he had look, they
do need to work something out, he needs to come back but
the point is with any running back, you never know how long it's
going to last whether you're
a rookie, whether you're a 60 or guy,
whatever it can.
Can be. And whenever it may happen,
it can happen quickly. It's the nature of
the position, the wheels can come off
and they will come off
at some point. Very rarely. Do you see a guy just keep going
and going like Frank Gore did like Adrian Peterson? Did like
Emmitt Smith. Did
the careers are much shorter than that and the Giants have
to factor that in and just like, with Daniel Jones, it's
got to be a two-year commitment.
At most would say Quan Barkley
before the Giants could just tear it up and move on. If
that's what they choose to do.
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