Chubb is a much better pure runner than Barkley is. Barkley is average at best at running between the tackles. Chubb is the best we've seen in a long time outside of Adrian Peterson and Derrick Henry.
Browns RB (Nick Chubb) has leg folded up so badly the replay wasn't shown on national TV
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Chubb is right there with Marion Motley, Jim Brown, Barry Sanders, Gale Sayers, Jamaal Charles he also has a career average over 5 yards a carry at 5,3. That is the true judge of a RB that aveage per carry.
Browns have had some running backs.
And so has Georgia
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It looks even worse than his original injury:
And yes, that's exactly what you think it is. The knee is bending in the complete opposite direction.
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samcallan wrote:
malmo wrote:
He had a bad injury in college. Was a 6th round draft pick, ended up being far better than Barkley.
Chubb was a 2nd round draft pick.
Yeah I know. I've had that 6th round number in my head for so long I believed I remember correctly. The thing is Chubb was the ideal NFL RB. What made him and others selected was that Barkley refused to follow the blockers and tried to make every play a highlight, turning 1 yards into minus 4. It worked against Rutgers and Temple but not in the NFL.
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For all the doubters, remember the NFL cracked down hard on all the players that were torpedoing people head first, targeting peoples heads. That first year players fought back hard, saying its impossible to tackle someone without your head and all this crap. Said the game would be boring. Turns out, they just re-learned to tackle again (sort of). I like rule changes that dont mess with fabric of the game. Players are getting bigger but also plumping up to unhealthy weights. Limit the weight of certain positions. Make goalie pads in hockey smaller. Easy peazy and gets back to the fabric of the game not away from it.
Maybe only tackle QBs waist up? What else?
They need to do something to minimize the high speed collisions. Safeties break up passes by levelling the receiver, not by playing the ball. And surprisingly people get hurt! I'd like to see tackling involve using the arms. Probably would lead to more scoring, but maybe that is not a bad thing.
Rules against helmet to helmet hits and hitting a “helpless” receiver have made a huge difference in safety for receivers. You’re describing the ‘70s when guys like Jack Tatum were playing.
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It looks even worse than his original injury:And yes, that's exactly what you think it is. The knee is bending in the complete opposite direction.
His orthopedic surgeon must have been great.
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American football 🏈 is modern day version of gladiators. Maybe they should just let them all use baseball bats on each other heads
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Thats not true wrote:
reallybroreally wrote:
They need to do something to minimize the high speed collisions. Safeties break up passes by levelling the receiver, not by playing the ball. And surprisingly people get hurt! I'd like to see tackling involve using the arms. Probably would lead to more scoring, but maybe that is not a bad thing.
Rules against helmet to helmet hits and hitting a “helpless” receiver have made a huge difference in safety for receivers. You’re describing the ‘70s when guys like Jack Tatum were playing.
There is still a bit of leading with the helmut and certainly more colliding than wrap up tackling, and a whole lot of tackling via diving at players legs (and sometimes getting the knee).
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Same knee he has injured three times in the past. I think he's done, unfortunately.
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Kareem Hunt might be signing.
Not the breakaway threat that Chubb is but he can run inside and catch passes,
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Awesome athlete, but an even better human being. Really hate to see it, but if there’s any silver lining, it’s that he played long enough to where he can move onto something else and be extremely comfortable financially.
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Joe Theisman's lower leg getting snapped by Lawrence Taylor looked just as bad, and was replayed repeatedly. Bunch of snowflakes around nowadays I guess.
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It would help to have a rule that you can’t just belligerently and violently hit someone. You can tackle them, not hit them, and for sure not blindly ram their knee like a bighorn sheep.
Also, can anybody with an undamaged brain realize, as I did when I was 5 years old, that helmets should have a “soft” exterior, dense foam.
Finally, if the ground “causes” a fumble, it is a fumble. The ground is a non-variable, learn to embrace it.
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Just a couple years back an a early round March Madness game dude came down from a three rolling his ankle so hard he got a compound fracture. Hard to watch.
Felt like a dozen times before someone in the replay booth said no mas
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what is with all the ppl in here talking like saquon barkley is a bust???? if you don't know anything about the sport it's okay to not voice your opinion. christ
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bigmig19 wrote:
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Does anyone feel like its getting hard to watch your favorite players just get carted off like a war zone? Maybe the numbers are no different this year as opposed to another, but it seems like critical players are dropping like flies this year. My Lions were down to 3rd safety by 2nd quarter. Top offensive player hurt. Best lineman out.
Bigger and faster every year, but a knee is a knee, and a brain is a brain. I dont see how you could ever limit speed, but I believe someday the NFL will cap lineman/linebacker weight. Its easy and will save some injuries. Low hanging fruit. 6'-8" 380 falling on people is not good. And unhealthy to boot.
No and no because football has been violent for over 100 years. But people are dumb reactionary animals in the moment.
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