Tiki Barber made headlines earlier this week for trashing Saqoun Barkley after his dreadful opening season performance against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Barkley was tackled behind the LOS all night long, and even when he wasn’t touched before he could breathe, there was just no room to run all night long.
Barkley ended up with one of the worst statistical performances of his career and was then met with a large amount of criticism from Barber following the game.
Barber criticized Barkley’s pass protection, and with the video you’ll see when you flip the page, you’ll understand why. I still think Barkley is one of the more talented offensive players in football, but there’s no doubt he has some work to do in the pass protection department.
“If you’ve watched him for the last couple of years, he doesn’t want to block,” Barber said. “I learned this early on in my career, because I was a third-down back before I was a star running back: if you can’t block, you can’t be on the field on third down. You just can’t, because you know those are high blitz and dog downs.”
“Saquon Barkley’s a big man. He doesn’t want to hit anybody,” Barber added. “That is frustrating to watch.”
Flip the page to see the video of Saquon Barkley failing in pass protection, which led to the criticism from Barber.