Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley didn’t consent rerent with his phone call with New York Giants vague deal withr Joe Schoen making the cut on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” despite not understanding it was being recorded at the time.
But Barkley did seem to have an rerent with how negotiations were being portrayed in the media.
During Tuesday’s materializeance on “The Dan Patrick Show,” Barkley shelp he didn’t discover his portrayal in the Giants’ season of “Hard Knocks” problematic. He shelp his rerent was the “year prior” when details of negotiations were being leaked to the media.
Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley (26) runs with the ball agetst the Atlanta Falcons during the first quarter at Lincoln Financial Field. (Bill Streicher/Imagn Images)
“You would get these numbers that would come out, enjoy, ‘Saquon turned down this, and Saquon turned down that,’ and some of the numbers would be right, but they would give you some of the truth but not the whole truth and equitable the truth to benevolent of spin it to originate a certain person watch horrible,” he shelp.
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Barkley implied his suspicions about who might have leaked the alertation — without naming anyone particularpartner.
“If me and you are having this conversation. And we’re talking numbers. And it goes out that this number was shelp. And only me and you had this conversation, and I’m not the one who shelp it, I understand it definitely came from you.”
In compriseition to the leaks, Barkley uncovered that despite what was alerted at the time, the Giants were never real contfinishers in his eyes once he go ined free agency.
General deal withr Joe Schoen of the New York Giants speaks to the media during the NFL Combine at the Indiana Convention Cgo in Feb. 27, 2024, in Indianapolis. (Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
“For me, it was weird, I guess, becaengage a lot of it was about me,” he shelp. “It felt enjoy, ‘All right, my name was equitable getting engaged becaengage, in truth, it was enjoy I had one phone call with Joe, which was the phone call that was on [the episode]. And my agent probably spoke to him a couple of times. But on this side — in my life, in truth — it was enjoy the Giants repartner never were actupartner in carry out the second time for me going into negotiations or hitting free agency when they could’ve been the whole time.”
The phone call Barkley referenced was the inwell-understandn call in which Schoen alerted the veteran running back the Giants were allotriumphg him to test free agency with the promise he would get back to them if he had an propose.
“Can you give me your word on that, or you not going to give us a chance?” Schoen asked Barkley over the phone.
Barkley reacted, “What do you nasty, enjoy circling back? “I nasty, I already telderly you where I want to be, so …”
Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley departs the field after a triumph agetst the Green Bay Packers Sept. 7, 2024, at the Neo Quimica Arena in Sao Paulo. (AP Ptoastyo/Andre Penner)
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Barkley compriseed he had no problem with the call being aired, but he set up out from the show’s trailer it was comprised in the season.
“I wasn’t distress about that,” he shelp. “It’s a part of the business.”
Barkley will return to MetLife Stadium for the first time since fuseing the division rival when the Giants arrange the Eagles Oct. 20.
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