Saquon Barkley Had His Leg Wrapped Up After Reportedly Tweaking Something Because The NFL Preseason Is The Devil's Season

Look, I hate writing this blog because I try to avoid being a Chicken Little fan that thinks the sky is always falling when it comes to my team. But there is something about football injuries during training camp that scares the shit out of me. Maybe it’s because situations like the Derrius Guice injury happens all the time. A player makes a great play, tweaks something, walks off the field with a slight limp, a few optimistic quotes from team sources hit Twitter, and then that player ends up out for the season.

Now I am rewatching this play frame-by-frame over and over like it’s the fucking Zapruder film, trying to pinpoint which part of Saquon’s leg buckled a fraction of an inch while also wondering which part of that quote Pat Shurmur emphasized. Do they “THINK” Saquon’s all right or do they just “think” Saquon’s all right? God I hate the fucking preseason. I also have WebMD pulled up in case we get a diagnosis by the end of the day. Drafting a running back with the 2nd pick of the draft is scary enough. But that fear goes up tenfold once that player gets hurt and the QBs drafted after him looked good in their first action during an NFL game.

And for those that are wondering, my spinners that helped reverse the bad juju of the injuries that happened to Sterling Shepard and Odell Beckham last preseason were thrown out after I realized I may have been dabbling in black magic that could have helped contribute to last year’s 3-13 nightmare (along with Ben McAddo’s new haircut, which should get at least 80% of the blame).

TL;DR- Put every important Giants player in bubble wrap, turn off injuries, and simulate the rest of the preseason.