Saquon Barkley hints he could retire as soon as next year to go out like Barry Sanders

[boysfanindc]

Like him to retire for a game on 9-4 and 11-23 of this year.

 

[remdak]

If he is thinking about retiring, he has already done so.
Who said that, Madden?

Parcells

 

[acr731]

Like him to retire for a game on 9-4 and 11-23 of this year.

I'm sure he has both of those dates circled as stat padding opportunities

 

[BoyzBlaster]

Hopefully he can convince Jalen Carter and AJ Brown to retire too

And Dak.

 

[Pass2Run]

I've always said if I was Barry Sanders I'd be all "**** Detroit". Gave him no help ever.

No way Emmitt was better than Sanders. Emmitt was good and had.a great line. Barry was great and usually had a subpar line.

 

[NotForLong]

No way he is different

 

[Coogiguy03]

You thinking of retiring?

Contemplating it, it'll make my pal happy! He's already made plans for the day I make it official

 

[NotForLong]

Jim Brown didn’t want to retire when he did. He was in England still filming his parts for The Dirty Dozen when training camp was supposed to start. Art Modell told him that he would be fined every day he missed camp. Brown basically gave him the middle finger and just said bye bye. He would end up performing in over 50 films.

He called Art and raised Him an F?U

 

[NotForLong]

The Eagles running back might not be playing in the NFL much longer​

One of the most shocking retirements in NFL history came in July 1999 when Barry Sanders stunned the league by announcing that he was done playing football after 10-year career with the Detroit Lions where he made the Pro Bowl 10 times. It's not often that you see a player retire at the top of his game, but that's exactly what Sanders did, and now, nearly 30 years later, Saquon Barkley is thinking about doing that same thing.

During an interview with Chris Long on the latest edition of "The Green Light" podcast, the 28-year-old Barkley was asked if he would be a guy who ends up retiring early or if he would play until the wheels fell off. The Philadelphia Eagles running back then proceeded to give a pretty surprising answer: Barkley said he might consider retiring as soon as next year.

"I'll probably be one of those guys that it'll be out of nowhere. I'll probably just wake up one day, whether it's next year or two years or four years, and just be like, 'Yeah it's over,'" Barkley said. "I don't think I will ever lose that passion. I'm just a competitor. ... The competitive nature is always going to be there."

Barkley is well aware that Sanders retired while he was still one of the best running backs in the NFL and it seems that he's starting to give some serious consideration to also going out that way.


https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...gles-star-wants-to-go-out-like-barry-sanders/

Could be 1 year 2 years 4 years . . . why not 8 or 10 . . . this is a non story

 

[gtb1943]

If he is thinking about retiring, he has already done so.
Who said that, Madden?

I think it was BP

 

[gtb1943]

he has got the Ring; everything else really. so sticking around for a year to see if he can get two and then calling it quits I can see it

he does not have the qualifications for the HOF
Rookie and Player of the year but only one All Pro and three Pro Bowls is not enough even with a 2000 yd season. With 17 games now, that number has nowhere near the cache it had when OJ did it in 14 games

 

[jazzcat22]

Parcells

I knew it was one of them, thanks.

 

[StarOfGlory]

he has got the Ring; everything else really. so sticking around for a year to see if he can get two and then calling it quits I can see it

he does not have the qualifications for the HOF
Rookie and Player of the year but only one All Pro and three Pro Bowls is not enough even with a 2000 yd season. With 17 games now, that number has nowhere near the cache it had when OJ did it in 14 games

If the Eagles somehow win the ring this year, no way he doesn’t go for the three-peat.

 

[SuperBowlz]

If the Eagles somehow win the ring this year, no way he doesn’t go for the three-peat.

If he is contemplating I’d guess he’d play 2 more because they just gave him a 2 year 41 million dollar deal. Retire at 30 with a ring and an extra 41 million

 

[Coogiguy03]

You thinking of retiring?

I'm getting a lot of pressure from someone on here to do so, nobody's ever seen anything like it before!

 

[Hadenough]

Problem many face when it comes to retiring is the brain tells them they can still be productive. But the body starts to break down and lose those reflexes along with quickness, speed and power.
This applies to everyone! Not just NFL players.

 

[tromofan]

I was a big fan of Saquon’s since coming out of college. The whole Eagle situation was a 180 from NY. Now I’m wondering if Daniel Jones is gonna pan out in Indianapolis because they have one of the better offensive lines in the league, something they definitely didn’t have with the Giants.

 

[Rayman70]

It's been said that if a player is talking about retiring then said player is already retired. They just don't realize it.

 

[mcmvp]

It's been said that if a player is talking about retiring then said player is already retired. They just don't realize it.

I would agree with this if the players is just talking about it here and there randomly… however, I’m not sure that statement applies for someone who was simply asked a direct question about the subject

 

[ksadler1]

I'm happy for Barkley. He left a dead-end team, got his SB, and has nothing else to prove. Seems like a decent person. We had a good player that had to go Denver to get his SB.