Eric Dickerson’s single-season speeding report has stood for 40 years, and he doesn’t suppose it will fall this season to Philadelphia Eagles operating again Saquon Barkley.
Barkley enters the Eagles’ stretch run with 1,838 yards, leaving him simply 268 yards away from breaking the report.
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 Occasions this week, Dickerson mentioned he doubts Barkley will get the yardage required to change into the brand new single-season record-holder. Not solely that, however he doesn’t need Barkley to take his report.
“I don’t suppose 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 way in which I take a look at it. If he’s lucky to recover from 2,000 yards and get the report, it’s a terrific report to have.”
Dickerson shouldn’t be bothered by the actual fact Barkley would doubtlessly have a seventeenth recreation to interrupt his report in, mentioning that he reached 2,000 yards initially in 15 video games when O.J. Simpson — whose report Dickerson broke — did it in 14 video games. He additionally famous that 2,000 yards is a large accomplishment, regardless of what number of video games it takes. He’s proper, as solely eight operating backs have ever carried out it.
Having mentioned all of that, Dickerson might be appropriate in that Barkley is unlikely to get the 268 yards he wants.
For one, he would want 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 chance 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 in opposition to the New York Giants except they get some severe assist in the search for the No. 1 seed.
As a lot as Barkley would possibly like to interrupt the report, and as a lot as he would possibly love to do it in opposition to his former group, it might merely not be definitely worth the danger with the playoffs looming.
Topping the two,000-yard mark is definitely inside vary for Barkley this week, however odds are he’s most likely going to fall simply wanting the report.
