NFL

[Kaiser]

Who else heard about Jimmy Carter from Curt Menefee?

[Ad@m]

Dafuq was that

[dodint]

It would have taken quick thinking but he really should have thrown it away instead of running the way he did.

[Ad@m]

Wow!

[Ad@m]

Damn

[Beveridge]

Why can't coaches manage timeouts?

[RonnieFranchise]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Hell of a snag by Ertz

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Saquon only needs 100 yards to break the rushing record and the Eagles play the Giants next Sunday. If they rest him they should be disbanded as a franchise

[Orlando Penguin]

Saquon only needs 100 yards to break the rushing record and the Eagles play the Giants next Sunday. If they rest him they should be disbanded as a franchise

Or they play him and he gets hurt and isn't 100% for the playoff game the next week.

You really don't think before you say things sometimes huh. But I guess that's what hot take culture produces.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Yes, that is what can happen. Still play him

[MR25]

If you ask Saquon 10 times if he'd rather have the record or a Super Bowl, he'd say Super Bowl 10 out of those 10.

Risking a blown ACL or sprained ankle (which he's done more than once) just to hit some arbitrary number is stupid.

[nocera]

Rest him. A rushing record in an 17 game season is gonna have an asterisk anyway.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Does the 16 game rushing record have an asterisk?

[nocera]

It should when compared to OJ’s record.

These sorts of records should be organized by games played rather than all-time.

[count2infinity]

I was curious who was tracking for the #1 overall pick. Seems like half the league is down there. Usually it’s two or three teams. There are 4 teams at the bottom at 3-13 and 5 teams right ahead of them at 4-12.

[RonnieFranchise]

Yeah, could be 9 teams that finish with 3 or 4 wins. Imagine going under .250 and you don’t pick till #9 in the draft? That’s failing at failing or something. Definitely something the Jets would do.

[count2infinity]

Oh, wow. Just looked and none of them play each other this week either.

[shafnutz05]

It does seem like there is a larger gap than usual between the good and bad teams this year. The wild card races have not really been too exciting this year, and with KC resting all starters next week, the AFC is probably locked up too.

[Beveridge]

Atlanta gets the ball to, what, their own 45 or so with 32 seconds left and 2 timeouts. By the time they throw the next incomplete pass, 20 seconds have run off the clock leaving 12 seconds left and 2 timeouts. Coaches should be fired on the spot when these things happen.

[DigitalGypsy66]

NFC North is wild, too. Imagine being a 12 or 13 win team and not get a home playoff game.

[genoscoif]

It does seem like there is a larger gap than usual between the good and bad teams this year. The wild card races have not really been too exciting this year, and with KC resting all starters next week, the AFC is probably locked up too.

Group of friends just talked about this last night. General consensus was that minus, what, 7 or 8? QBs starting in the league week to week, they are butt. And with the shift away from focus on the running game that's been happing for a couple decades, now you have teams that just aren't really fun to watch because they aren't built to win. The best athletes are almost all on the defense side now, and you have a generation of 'creative' offensive coordinators that don't have the tools to make their visions operational. The good teams do, the bad teams don't but don't admit they don't...so the good get better and the bad get worse.

[faftorial]

Does the 16 game rushing record have an asterisk?

Yes, anything other than yards per game in meaningless for comparison purposes.

[genoscoif]

Saquon only needs 100 yards to break the rushing record and the Eagles play the Giants next Sunday. If they rest him they should be disbanded as a franchise

Meh. I'm a big Saquon fan, but I'm not sure this record is all that important, especially given the 17 game schedule.

Having said that, through 16 games Barkley has carried the ball 34 less times than Dickerson did in '84, and has a higher YPC with 5.8 compared to 5.5. If you take Dickerson's last game of the season out, he still rushed for 2,007 yards...2 more yards than Saquon through 16 games. OJ in '73 had 332 carries and averaged 6 YPC in an era where every defense was built to stop the run. That is...impressive.

If Barkley needed like 20 yards for the record, I'd say go for it. Put him in on the first possession and let him go get it. If he managed to maintain his average YPC of 5.8, he's looking at 18 carries to get the record. That's a lot of work in a game at the end of a season...and as others have said 18 or more opportunities to twist an ankle or ding a knee.

[count2infinity]

The record is the record. Asterisks or not.

That said, when you compare players from different eras, you can’t rely solely on stats as the game changes over time. You have to also consider the context around the game. Number of games in a season is one of those factors you have to consider, but there are many many more.