{"id":214214,"date":"2025-10-10T12:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/214214\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:06:07","slug":"saquon-barkley-we-have-to-get-back-to-the-attitude-we-had-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/214214\/","title":{"rendered":"Saquon Barkley: We have to get back to the attitude we had last year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grumblings about the state of the Eagles offense cropped up during the team\u2019s 4-0 start and the volume is only going to rise in the wake of a 34-17 loss to a Giants team that they have dominated in recent seasons. <\/p>\n

Running back Saquon Barkley\u2019s performance has been the source of much of the angst. Barkley ran 12 times for 58 yards on Thursday night and he\u2019s yet to have the kind of overwhelming performance that was commonplace on his way to running for more than 2,000 yards on the way to a Super Bowl title last season. <\/p>\n

One school of thought about the inability to control games offensively is that the Eagles have become too predictable, but Barkley took issue with that framing after Thursday\u2019s loss. He said he believes that they were predictable in 2024 as well, but that their execution took them where they needed to go on offense. <\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, do you think we were predictable? Everybody knew we were running the ball<\/a>,\u201d Barkley said. \u201cWe still got it off. I also think we got to get back to the attitude, the mindset of, not really giving a f\u2014k what people are trying to do. That\u2019s something that I\u2019m definitely looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barkley said that \u201cfootball is a lot simpler\u201d than many people think and that it is \u201call about\u201d executing better than the other team. The Eagles aren\u2019t doing that and they aren\u2019t outthinking other teams either, which adds up to the opposite of the kind of approach that Barkley thinks the team needs to rediscover their groove. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grumblings about the state of the Eagles offense cropped up during the team\u2019s 4-0 start and the volume…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-214214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}