Barkley\u2019s also ready for the next season.<\/p>\n
For some clubs, winning a division title and making it to the postseason would be viewed as some form of success.<\/p>\n
Barkley and the Eagles won the Super Bowl in the 2024 season, though, and after reaching the mountain top, 2025\u2019s outcome wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is going to be one winner and thirty-one losers,\u201d Barkley said, \u201cand the losers are all the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
The goal is the same for Barkley and the inspiration.<\/p>\n
In his first year with the Eagles, Barkley ran to historic success. He became the ninth player in NFL history to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season, hitting 2,005 (eighth all time). Barkley sat out Week 18<\/a> just 100 yards away from Eric Dickerson\u2019s single-season record of 2,105.<\/p>\n He did bring home AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year<\/a> hardware, however. The Super Bowl<\/a> was most certainly the crowning achievement.<\/p>\n The encore was an unfitting sequel. Barkley rushed for 1,140 yards on the 18th-ranked rushing offense, a season after he won a rushing title as part of the second-ranked running offense. And Philadelphia went 11-6 before a wild-card loss.<\/p>\n The positive of it all is that it has served as fuel for Barkley and his teammates through the offseason.<\/p>\n \u201cSo that\u2019s a motivation for me \u2013 try to get back to that game,\u201d Barkley said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I train the way I train. I would love to have had a faster start last year, but you can\u2019t get caught up in the stats. You can\u2019t get too caught up in numbers. Some of my better years weren\u2019t based off numbers. It was based off how I handled myself in certain situations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barkley\u2019s also ready for the next season. For some clubs, winning a division title and making it to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-787088","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\/787088","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=787088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}