Saquon Barkley has become a nightmare for opposing teams, leading the Philadelphia Eagles to Super Bowl LIX with explosive performances that have haunted his former team, the New York Giants. The Eagles have transformed Barkley's talents into a dominant offensive force, making him the focal point of their Super Bowl push against the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Philadelphia Eagles are different this time. They have something different. Something they did not have the last time they attempted to topple the Kansas City Chiefs at the Super Bowl ... a Saquon Barkley . There aren't many of them in this world. Only high-ranking NFL officials really know the whereabouts of the Stranger Things lab in which they are cooked up. Few can be trusted to use them safely. They are the perfect weapon for revenge.
Jalen Hurts summoned the game of his life this time two years ago as he went stride-for-stride with Patrick Mahomes in a straight shoot-out at Super Bowl LVII, only to come up shy in a 38-35 defeat. Nor he or the Eagles could have done much more, an iffy pass interference call against James Bradberry teeing up Harrison Butker's game-winning field goal in the final seconds to ignite Kansas City's pursuit of a three-peat. Not only do the Eagles return armed with a juicier, considerably-improved defense - which just ranked No 1 during the regular season - but so too a game-titling haymaker in the backfield that has transformed Nick Sirianni's offense into a read-option conundrum of the highest order. Welcome to the Super Bowl - the biggest party in sport is here! Super Bowl 59: All you need to know Why Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans could be the best yet Stream the NFL and more with NOW The New York Giants should have never drafted Barkley with the No 2 pick in 2018. Not because he did not deserve to be chosen that high. But because they did not deserve him. Or, rather, they were not ready for him. Nor were they adequately equipped to maximise the best player in the country, regardless of the seismic numbers Barkley would still somehow manage to go on and produce in New York. For so long the offensive line was a rubble of mess scarce of clean avenues, while the Giants could not offer merely the notion of a consistent passing game threat that might create the mirage that they were anything but a Barkley-reliant attack. Even he could not compensate for such a level of predictability or multitude of roster holes. But in Philly he is home, thriving in a tailor-made system with the premium supporting cast of which he is fully worthy. Starved of contention in the Big Apple, he is now the greatest threat to Kansas City's ambitions of making history with a third successive Super Bowl win. 'Giant mistake letting him go,' joked Tom Brady on commentary after watching Barkley score his third touchdown in the Eagles' 55-23 victory over the Washington Commanders at the NFC Championship Game. Giant, indeed. Barkley signed a three-year $37.75m deal with the Eagles last March as the Giants allowed their prized asset to hit free agency after six seasons amid a reluctance to budge marginally on their own desired price and having ultimately hamstrung themselves with a long-term commitment to quarterback Daniel Jones, who they would go on to bench and subsequently release during the 2024 campaign. While Brian Daboll's side skidded to a 3-14 season that plunged them back in quarterback purgatory, Barkley became one of the most successful free agency acquisitions in history as just the ninth player ever to eclipse 2,000 rushing yards in a season. By the end of the year he had pulled away from Derrick Henry to finish as the NFL's rushing champion with 2,005 yards in total and just 101 short of Eric Dickerson's all-time single-season rushing record. Barkley has since amassed 442 rushing yards in the playoffs, the second most by any player in the postseason prior to reaching the Super Bowl behind only John Riggins' 444. He meanwhile arrives in New Orleans having posted 14 100-yard rushing games for the Eagles, and with just 30 more rushing yards needed to break Terrell Davis' all-time single-season record (including playoffs) of 2,476, which has stood since 1998. Rarely has salt been rubbed into the wound with such merciless vigour, Barkley's eruption the reason Giants owner John Mara must stomach repeated reminders of his caught-on-camera admission he would 'lose sleep' if Barkley ended up in Philly during the offseason. Ah, the unforgiving beauty of Hard Knocks and its fly-on-the-wall vantage point. If that wasn't enough, Barkley later starred in a commercial for Unisom - a sleep aid specialist - in which he delivered a thinly-veiled jab at Mara's remarks. The sleepless nights are showing no let up... But Barkley-incited misery has not been exclusive to the Giants, for the rest of the league have too been forced to bear the brunt of his dominance at Lincoln Financial Field. On debut in Week One he rushed for 109 yards and two touchdowns against the Green Bay Packers in Sao Paulo, and in Week Three torched the New Orleans Saints with 147 rushing yards and two scores at 8.6 yards per carr
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