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Bo Jackson is aware of many issues. The flexibility to exaggerate is surely one of them.
All the intention thru Monday’s episode of the 21st & Prime podcast (h/t Caitlyn Holroyd of The Ranking), worn Los Angeles Raiders working serve Jackson lamented the tackling in on the recent time’s NFL and successfully said he’d be smashing dashing records every sport.
“It’s love this—and I gaze approach—I intention no longer stare nobody hitting or wrapping up. Each person’s working into each other and searching to make consume of their shoulder pads to knock the ball carrier down. And I’m love, if I performed valid thru this generation, man, I’d be averaging 350-400 yards a sport … on chronicle of nobody wraps up anymore. They whisk into each other with their pads.”
To build Jackson’s projection into point of view, he would possibly per chance possibly be environment the NFL’s single-season passing mark in dashing yards. No working serve in history has even averaged 150 yards per sport, no longer to mention 350.
His assertion that he’d reputedly jump off would-be tacklers is a little suspect given he’s listed at 6’1″ and 227 kilos on Pro Football Reference. Derrick Henry is 2 inches taller and 20 kilos heavier, yet he’s easiest managing to acquire 110.5 yards per sport on the floor in 2020.
Jackson’s athleticism was once nearly unparalleled among his peers, and as a outcome of his hip hurt, we tranquil would possibly per chance possibly merely no longer ever know what he would possibly per chance possibly’ve performed as a two-sport primary person.
If he had performed on the recent time, Jackson would possibly per chance possibly merely need been a Pro Bowl working serve appropriate love he was once in 1990. To declare he would possibly per chance possibly whisk for 400 yards in a single sport is moderately a stretch.
