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Saquon Barkley's unconventional plan to improve

Giantsfan79 : 5/28/2020 10:34 am
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The COVID-19 pandemic squashed Giants running back Saquon Barkley‘s plans to get a better feel for the metal part of the game this offseason.

Barkley, who played his college football at Penn State, had arranged with coach James Franklin to work along with the Penn State staff as it did its springtime film study, but when the pandemic shut down Penn State’s facilities, it had to get called off.

“Saquon reached out to me and his plan was to come and spend spring ball with us as a coach,” Franklin told the New York Post. “He wanted to sit in all of the coaches’ meetings to see how we came up with the game plan, how we watch film and all the things we discuss. He wanted to be able to learn football and view it through a different lens because he thought that would help his growth, and he’d be able to go back and have a bigger impact with the Giants. He could see how coaches assess things and why.”


anyone else remember another player looking to do this sort of thing to improve?
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What is "metal part of game"  
ZogZerg : 5/28/2020 10:35 am : link
?
metal = mental  
John in Loudoun : 5/28/2020 10:42 am : link
I'm guessing
Well guys like Eli and Brady  
ron mexico : 5/28/2020 10:45 am : link
Understand the game as well or better than the coaches. Lots of players are film nuts and could design game plans.

But kudos to him for seeing an area for improvement and attacking it.
Awesome stuff  
JB_in_DC : 5/28/2020 10:55 am : link
Last season was such a drag its easy to forget we have a 23 year old superstar on the roster.
Guess he wanted to steel himself  
CT Charlie : 5/28/2020 11:05 am : link
for the season.
RE: Guess he wanted to steel himself  
Ira : 5/28/2020 11:08 am : link
In comment 14912492 CT Charlie said:
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for the season.


That sounds stainless.
Also, it's  
lugnut : 5/28/2020 11:10 am : link
"quashed," not "squashed."
The main thing he needs to improve  
US1 Giants : 5/28/2020 11:19 am : link
is his blitz pickup blocking. He needs to develop a want to block mentality.
So dissapointing  
Coach Red Beaulieu : 5/28/2020 11:26 am : link
when the analytics clearly dictate we needed to take the positional value with Rosen or Darnold.
He needs  
PaulN : 5/28/2020 11:39 am : link
To see Ozzy if he is looking to improve his metal game, if he can understand him, he should take to any coach he ever gets.
I gotta say it  
averagejoe : 5/28/2020 12:46 pm : link
He may need a little more testosterone in his diet...lol...flame away....
RE: I gotta say it  
ron mexico : 5/28/2020 12:56 pm : link
In comment 14912571 averagejoe said:
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He may need a little more testosterone in his diet...lol...flame away....


I don’t get it.

Are you saying he is a juicer?
RE: RE: I gotta say it  
Rudy5757 : 5/28/2020 1:35 pm : link
In comment 14912576 ron mexico said:
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He may need a little more testosterone in his diet...lol...flame away....



I don’t get it.

Are you saying he is a juicer?


I think he is saying he is a Pussy.

I would like to see him be more aggressive with and without the football. The guy needs to learn how to block and be willing to do it. It is a huge hole in his game. He's not asked to do it a lot but when he is he needs to get the job done.
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ron mexico : 5/28/2020 1:48 pm : link
In comment 14912604 Rudy5757 said:
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In comment 14912576 ron mexico said:


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In comment 14912571 averagejoe said:


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He may need a little more testosterone in his diet...lol...flame away....



I don’t get it.

Are you saying he is a juicer?



I think he is saying he is a Pussy.

I would like to see him be more aggressive with and without the football. The guy needs to learn how to block and be willing to do it. It is a huge hole in his game. He's not asked to do it a lot but when he is he needs to get the job done.


Oh

Well the other SB thread would be more appropriate for that comment.
RE: I gotta say it  
darren in pdx : 5/28/2020 1:59 pm : link
In comment 14912571 averagejoe said:
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He may need a little more testosterone in his diet...lol...flame away....


This guy?

He's young and still has things to improve in his game while also already being an All-Pro level player.
Barkley crushes Will Harris - ( New Window )
Love to see him  
Rolyrock : 5/28/2020 2:51 pm : link
Truck some more people. Fire up the team. And fans!
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