Saquon Barkley Blames 'Recency Bias' for Why RB Position is Being Devalued
Saquon Barkley joins Sports Illustrated from Radio Row ahead of Super Bowl 58. The Giants star running back believes recency bias is the reason teams are devaluing the position.
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00:00 All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's day two at Radio Row. I got the dog himself Saquon Barkley. How you feeling man? I feel great
00:07 Radio Row Super Bowl Vegas
00:09 You know seeing a lot of familiar faces and having a great time. Yeah. All right. So let's talk about last season
00:15 How would you grade your performance on the field last year?
00:18 How would I grade my performance on the field last year? That's a great question
00:22 Um, a lot of adversities not just only through myself facing the ankle injury, but just throughout the team
00:29 But I think every single day I came with the right mindset. I made some plays
00:34 still had
00:37 Almost 1300 all-purpose yards and 10 touchdowns. So that's it's not a not a bad year. Obviously, you know, I always aim for higher
00:43 But I fight with the situation. I try to make the most of it
00:47 And also it's a beauty in it as you can learn from it
00:51 Try to get better for the for the next year. All right
00:54 All right, so you guys know I'm an ex Dallas Cowboy this dude used to run up and down the sidelines on us
00:59 So I'm ready for him to leave the Jacks
01:02 Okay
01:02 But for guys like boomer science and they say that you deserve to play or be competitive looking for a Super Bowl
01:08 How do you feel about people that think you should leave New York? Um, yeah
01:12 Well, I would say Dallas kind of got the best of us this year
01:16 Um, I think we lost like 80 to 20 to Dallas this year, which is never fun
01:22 Always fun playing against Dallas, but not when it goes that way
01:25 People saying I should leave New York. I appreciate it. I
01:29 Got a value their pain. They got a job to do
01:32 No, I respect boomer a lot
01:35 But when it comes to like talking about competitive team
01:39 I do believe like the year before the New York Football Giants were in a divisional playoffs and we lost to the NFC's
01:45 You know the NFC
01:47 champion the Eagles
01:49 It just you know and it feels about year to year
01:52 And last year we had an injury bug. We had a lot of adversity and we still even with all that at some point
01:59 We had a chance to still make the playoffs
02:00 So yes
02:01 I think the Giants just the organization that they have the great from top to bottom and I know those those men
02:08 Personally in a locker room and I know, you know the way that they come to work in the way that they compete so
02:13 But hey, it's a business I get it and whatever happens. I'm ready for it
02:18 Alright, so you talk about it's a business that's for sure
02:20 so we were on the golf course with Emma Smith recently and he said he doesn't like the
02:25 Disrespect that the value of the running backs are getting you want to share some light on that? Yeah, I agree
02:31 Um, I think it's just recency bias
02:33 They're going basically off of you know, a couple of guys that that's been paid
02:39 Might have caught you know a little injury bug or didn't have the same success in the seasons
02:46 They had prior but you can say that for a lot of positions. Yeah, there's a lot of positions and you know
02:52 I'm not gonna go in names
02:53 You know that they get paid a lot of money and it's like they don't have the same day or they never produce the same
02:58 Way to go for it because you know why it's the National Football League. It's hard. Yeah, it's not easy
03:03 It's hard to do a year in a year out
03:05 And it's not if you get injured it's when you get exactly
03:09 So yeah, I think it's a recent buys, but if you see
03:12 you know San Fran I think that that team is
03:16 You know, I think
03:18 Christians the thing that gets it going. There's a lot of talent over there. There's a lot of moving pieces
03:22 But that's a running back right there that's doing it. I think Derek Henry's been doing for years
03:27 You know a lot of people didn't try to give me credit last year
03:30 But when the New York Football Giants made to the playoffs last year
03:32 I feel like I was a big focal point and a big reason of that. So everything's always gonna
03:36 Straighten yourself out. Sadly. It didn't happen last year when I needed it the most probably
03:41 But everything happens to reason I learned a lot from that too
03:44 Yeah, I feel like you took that with grace especially in the media because you didn't really like go hard on nobody
03:51 You're like hey, it's a business. I get you get from it though. That's right
03:54 You know, I mean like I like I can go out and I can
03:58 Say I started a little bit at the end
04:00 I don't like like the like how to try to like change a narrative or my character
04:05 like what the sources come out and that's what like kind of like
04:09 Threw me off. But if I go if I feel a type of way like I'm not the person to just run the Twitter
04:15 Yeah, right, right have my feelings and then just so someone can hold that tweet and I know life happens football happens
04:23 You're not gonna be the top of the mile in your whole career. It's father time gets everybody right?
04:28 Yeah, father time is everyone so
04:30 For someone just save it like that. I don't think I handled it with grace. I just there's really nothing I could
04:37 There's nothing I could and
04:39 Me going on Twitter and saying going crazy and saying it is the same that do I think that would have got the deal done?
04:44 I don't think so either. I think anything it probably would have hurt even more
04:47 I think a lot of people respect the way I handled it to be completely honest and it's bigger than football
04:52 You know, I wouldn't be on this. I want to do stuff like this. So
04:55 Just learn from it. That's what's up. Okay, so we're obviously here is the Super Bowl. What's your predictions out?
05:01 You're gonna hate this answer cuz it's like the
05:06 this media answer
05:08 From a betting man. I don't bet against Christian. I don't bet against a Patrick Mahomes
05:13 Yeah, but I have probably more friendships on the San Fran. So I probably will want San Fran to win
05:18 but at the same time
05:21 It's gonna be one Super Bowl winner and the the beauty of the NFL is it's only one and everybody else is has equivalent to
05:29 Who's the worst teams there Carolina? It's the same thing. You know when the Super Bowl that's the goal
05:34 You know, if you're one to 31, it's the same thing only one team hosts up that LeBron
05:38 Okay, so tell us about your partnership with silk. I heard if you got the tofu touchdown smoothie on
05:43 Touchdown smoothie smoothie. I was able to create through the silk feel plenty good challenge. It's a great challenge. It happened in January
05:50 I was able to participate in it. So I bought putting the right things your body putting the right nutrients your body
05:54 But also healthy and delicious
05:56 That's that's tough. And when you think of athletes and you think of football players you think of loading up on cars you think of meats
06:03 And it's not always that and I think people overcomplicate graphics
06:07 They try to do too much and why not just start your day off with a tofu touchdown smoothie
06:12 And it's easy into great ingredients and you know, it's gonna be great for you
06:15 Say Quan Barkley, you might catch me him on the golf course soon. Yeah, which a handicap. It's a six. Oh damn
06:21 I'm not playing no more. So I got time
06:27 I got time on hand.
06:28 Ladies and gentlemen, Saquon Barkley.
06:30 (whooshing)