PHILADELPHIA — Saquon Barkley is placing up numbers the NFL hasn't seen in over a decade, making a case for turning into the primary quarterback to win NFL MVP in 12 years. There's no MVP case for Barkley with out his dashing totals after halftime video games.
As dominant as Barkley has been, his second half stats are off the charts. Amidst Barkley's 1,392 dashing yards this season, 920 of which got here within the second half. Barkley has 116 carries for 920 yards and 7 touchdowns within the second half of video games, averaging 7.9 yards per carry.
That is probably the most by any participant within the final 30 seasons earlier than Barry Sanders (6.9) in 1997 (minimal 100 carries). He has extra second-half yards than Nos. three and four mixed (Chuba Hubbard and Najee Harris have a mixed 902 second-half yards).
How was Barkley so dominant within the second half? Look what the Eagles working again has in entrance of him.
“There's plenty of issues you may plan for in the course of the week after which, you already know, you get to the sport and so they can present up in a unique protection,” Eagles offensive sort out Lane Johnson stated. “It’s important to make these changes after each collection and like halftime, you already know, some performs that possibly don't occur within the first half, they occur within the second half. So I believe I deserve credit score for that.”
As Barkley went within the second half, so did the Eagles. Philadelphia leads the NFL in dashing yards per play within the second half and extra time (118.eight) and ranks second in yards per carry (5.9). Barkley is definitely the fourth main rusher within the NFL when counting simply his 920 dashing yards.
NFL leaders in dashing
Eagles preach endurance. They received't abandon the run simply because one or two wickets don't break for giant beneficial properties.
“Just like the working sport isn't at all times going to make it from the primary spherical,” Eagles proper guard Mekhi Becton stated. “It's a kind of issues the place now we have to maintain going and await it to hit. I really feel like I've finished that each sport this yr.
“We went into the locker room, we made changes and we shied away from what we have been going to do within the second half. That's the perfect I can clarify. It's a kind of issues that now we have to maintain entering into. a kind of issues the place now we have to be good from the beginning.”
What Barkley and the Eagles have been capable of accomplish within the second half of video games was historic. There is no such thing as a secret sauce to Barkley's success, simply the Eagles utilizing his identification to their benefit.
“I believe there's a component of — we pleasure ourselves on being a extremely bodily working sport, and people issues put on on you as the sport goes on once you get the alternatives that now we have,” Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen stated Moore. “And the way in which the video games have gone, you may proceed to do them because the second half progresses, and people large performs ultimately will come.”