The Eagles wrapped up their worldwide journey to South America, and following his hat trick on Friday evening, Saquon Barkley spoke to reporters concerning the alternative and the way it felt to be on the sector as an Eagle.
Barkley mentioned the chance to play in Brazil was superb and he was grateful to the NFL. He lauded the vitality, calling it superb, and identified how particular it was for him to be the primary participant ever to attain a landing in South America.
The working again mirrored on how they approached the sport, and knew that they have been dealing with a troublesome Packers workforce. He admitted that they didn’t make it straightforward on themselves early within the recreation, however ultimately discovered a rhythm. Barkley mentioned the offensive line performed nice, and famous that the group was an enormous issue when making his determination about the place to signal this offseason.
Later, he gave the offensive line a whole lot of credit score for making him look good, saying all of it begins up entrance. He didn’t need to speak an excessive amount of concerning the previous, explaining that he nonetheless has a whole lot of good relationships with gamers and coaches from the Giants, admitting that Brian Daboll even reached out earlier on Friday to want his luck in his Eagles debut.
“I’m grateful for the final six years that I had in New York. I wouldn’t be the person I’m as we speak with out it, and I nonetheless obtained nice relationships with all these guys. I even talked to [Brian] Daboll as we speak, he wished me luck. So, nonetheless having an important relationship with these guys, however I’m simply pleased to be right here, pleased to be with this group, and I simply look ahead to the long run.”
He acknowledged that there are a whole lot of issues to enhance on, and he’s desirous to evaluate the movie, as a result of off the highest of his head he knew there have been some areas he’ll have to work on — together with within the four-minute offense. Nonetheless, he’s enthusiastic about this offense and this workforce.
The working again echoed statements he made within the offseason about how this offense is constructed in order that any man can have an enormous week — this week occurred to be his, however he’s enthusiastic about an offense that he’s possibly not even Prime 3 guys that defenses have to organize for, alongside Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith, and Dallas Goedert.
He later mentioned that it was actually particular, amongst a gaggle of such proficient guys, that on an evening that was Barkley-loaded, they weren’t on the lookout for their very own touches, however somewhat making an attempt to get him a fourth landing. That’s what you want from a workforce to achieve success, and when it’s Brown or Smith’s flip to take the load, it makes him need to block even higher for them.
“That’s my favourite factor about being a part of this workforce is there’s no egocentric personalities right here. All of us have one frequent purpose and I’m excited to be a part of that.”
Barkley additionally talked concerning the subject situations, and admitted that it was completely different than what they’re used to. He defined that he made a mistake, as a result of throughout warm-ups he felt snug so he opted towards utilizing the studs, however that’s completely different than at full pace, which is when he had points. After that first drive, he put the studs on, labored on getting his footing, after which it was, “fairly okay.”
He had a whole lot of nice issues to say concerning the followers, whereas noting that there have been a whole lot of Packers followers, so it didn’t fairly really feel like a house recreation, however they did hear some “Go Birds” chants. Barkley was pleased they obtained the win, and now appears to be like ahead to enjoying in Philly in entrance of their followers, subsequent Monday evening.
