Saquon Barkley and the Giants may have failed to agree on a long-term contract ahead of Monday’s deadline to extend players under the franchise tag, but the star running back isn't done thinking about how he can regain leverage.
Appearing on The Money Matters Podcast on YouTube, Barkley floated the idea of refusing to suit up alongside his New York teammates to begin the season, even suggesting that he could go as far as not playing at all in a move to show the Giants just how valuable he feels he is to the team.
“My leverage is I could say, ‘f--- you’ to the Giants, I could say, ‘f--- you to my teammates,’” Barkley said Monday on the podcast. “And be like, ‘You want me to show you my worth? You want me to show you how valuable I am to the team? I won’t show up. I won’t play a down.’ And that’s a play I could use.”
