New York Giants star running back Saquon Barkley hasn’t played in three games due to a high ankle sprain, but he made news last Sunday when he sparred with a fan during the game against the Dolphins in Miami.
The subject? Quarterback Daniel Jones.
Fans were razzing the injured Jones from the stands and Barkley decided to engage. Not always the best course of action as Barkley admitted to reporters on Thursday.
“We live in New York and New Jersey, we play for the New York Giants, that’s expected,” Barkley said of the criticism from fans.
“They want a team that’s going to go out there and win so when it’s the booing, when it’s the cheering, they say all this, I’m okay with that. I’ve never had any interaction with the fans, that doesn’t bother me, I don’t let that get under my skin but that moment, especially when DJ, someone who would give his freaking all for this franchise and for this city and would go out there and risk it every single day and do whatever he can to bring a Super Bowl to this city and to this organization and he just hurt his neck and he’s sitting in a blue tent getting check on for his neck and you’ve got a fan just (expletive) him, that just doesn’t sit well with me.
“He’s helpless. He can’t do nothing. But like I said, I get it. I was a fan of football before. That’s not in my makeup, that’s not in my character to boo and do stuff like that. But fans, if you don’t like the product that we’re doing out there — we’ve got to give them a product to be happy about so go ahead and boo, go ahead and cheer. That’s part of the game, but have sympathy at the same time. He’s a human being and out of all people, it shouldn’t be right.”
Barkley and Jones could both miss this Sunday night’s game in Buffalo and, in the grand scheme of things, that may not be the worst thing. The Giants’ chances of winning this game — even at full strength — were slim.
Their health is the primary concern here. It’s good to see there is some fire in this team, which hasn’t shown much fight in the first five weeks of this season.
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