Brandon Marshall says Giants should understand Saquon Barkley jabs are warranted: 'This is the big leagues'

Toward the extremity of his 13-year vocation in the NFL, Brandon Marshall recovered himself successful East Rutherford, New Jersey, playing for the New York Giants.

"I deliberation it’s 1 of the dopest brands successful each of sports. I emotion what they basal for," Marshall, who played his 2017 play with the Giants, told Fox News Digital. 

While the Giants are rooted successful contented and respect, winning has been hard to travel by successful caller seasons. Marshall knows astir that, having gone 3-13 with the squad 1 twelvemonth aft they reached the playoffs. 

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Eagles moving backmost Saquon Barkley leaves the tract aft the wild-card playoff crippled against the Green Bay Packers connected Jan. 12, 2025, successful Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

But the 2024 play not lone had a 3-14 finish, it saw an ex-franchise cornerstone portion airy it up with a rival elsewhere. 

And Saquon Barkley, starring present for the Philadelphia Eagles, is heading to Super Bowl LIX. 

Owner John Mara was seen connected HBO's "Hard Knocks" telling wide manager Joe Schoen that helium would person occupation sleeping if Barkley ended up with the Eagles. Schoen believed Eagles wide Howie Roseman was retired connected Barkley, but boy, did helium crook retired to beryllium wrong. 

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What transpired is arguably the top moving backmost play of each time, and NFL fans person been ripping the Giants each week arsenic Barkley seemed to outdo himself with each crippled that came up adjacent connected the schedule. 

It's a pugnacious pill to swallow for the Giants and their instrumentality base, but Marshall doesn't privation to perceive immoderate complaining from anyone connected New York's side. 

"It’s what comes with it. This is the large leagues," helium said. "The Tisch [and Mara] household has been phenomenal to me. … I bash deliberation that they tin clasp a small alteration and get with the times a small spot successful immoderate areas. But I’m a large instrumentality of the Giants. 

"With that being said, no, this is perfectly what comes with it. You had a generational endowment successful your building, and you knew it. It’s wherefore you drafted him."

Eagles moving backmost Saquon Barkley runs for a touchdown against the Washington Commanders during the archetypal fractional of the NFC Championship astatine Lincoln Financial Field successful Philadelphia connected Jan. 26, 2025. (Eric Hartline-Imagn Images)

Marshall flashed backmost to erstwhile wide manager Dave Gettleman, who owned the No. 2 prime successful the 2018 NFL Draft, saying that you take a subordinate that precocious who has an accidental to scope the Hall of Fame. 

Barkley showcased that quality successful six seasons with the Giants, particularly successful 2022, erstwhile his efforts to acceptable the code successful the backfield helped interruption the team's playoff drought. But conscionable 1 play with the Eagles shows what Barkley tin bash down 1 of the champion violative lines successful the sport. 

That was connected afloat show this past Sunday arsenic Barkley rushed for 3 touchdowns successful the 55-23 rout of the Washington Commanders to caput to his archetypal Super Bowl. It led Dallas Cowboys large Dez Bryant to articulation the trolls connected societal media, which yet led to existent Giants antiaircraft extremity Kayvon Thibodeaux getting into a heated statement with him. 

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Thibodeaux mightiness beryllium defending his team, but it goes backmost to Marshall's point: When you let a generational endowment to walk, expect the consequences. 

"It’s unfortunate that they weren’t capable to situation Saquon with the close violative line, with the close coordinators, with the close receivers," Marshall explained. "You insert [head coach] Brian Daboll, who I emotion to death, but it was mode excessively late. Then, the full marketplace astir the moving backmost shifted. Now, you person Saquon Barkley and King [Derrick] Henry redefining however we should look astatine the moving backmost position, however we should look astatine the tally game. It’s highly important."

Barkley is connected the cusp of past arsenic helium appears destined to interruption the NFL grounds for astir rushing yards successful a season, including the playoffs, which Hall of Famer Terrell Davis presently owns with 2,476 yards. Barkley has 2,447 aft his 118 yards connected Sunday. 

If the Eagles triumph the Super Bowl, similar Davis' Denver Broncos did successful 1998, Barkley would headdress a historical season, thing the Giants hoped helium could nutrient with them.

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Instead, they person to proceed looking connected from further northbound connected I-95. And what's worse? This is lone the archetypal twelvemonth connected Barkley's three-year Eagles contract.

The lone mode for the Giants to alteration the communicative is to physique the close roster to vie with Barkley and the Eagles. Until then, the shots taken by shot fans volition proceed to fly.

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