You know, if it is my last year, I can't say I'm going out on his team, you know.

I can't go out like that, you know.

So we're just going to keep working as a team, you know.

And hopefully we can just try to get one, man.

And I can't wait till we get it.

He might be the most understated legend in NFL history.

A man who only sits behind Emmett Smith and Walter Payton on the NFL's all-time rushing list.

But this season, his 16th in the league, Frank Gore, finds himself at a different extreme.

An extreme called the New York Jets. Today, with the 0-11 Jets close to becoming the third team ever to lose all 16 games, we examine the curious case of Frank Gore, whose entire life is about pushing forward, maybe even into 2021 and beyond.

I'm Pablo Torre. It's Friday, December 4th.

This is ESPN Daily.

Tim Kuhn, you recently wrote a profile of Frank Gore for ESPN.com.

So what inspired you to take him on as a topic at this particular moment?

It's interesting, Paulo, because I've watched his career forever.

I'm in the Bay Area, so I followed him when he was with the 49ers.

And he's always struck me as someone who sort of exists outside of our current time.

ESPN's Tim Kewen has been writing about the NFL for three decades.

Like he's this guy that's the third leading rusher all time.

And yet he doesn't really seem to be appreciated or there's not a highlight that you can point to.

He's just sort of this guy that has just existed forever in our consciousness.

And the fact that he's on the Jets, he's, I mean, he's their lead back still.

It just became this thing like, you know, how remarkable it is for someone his age, 37 years old, from the 2005 draft class as a running back,

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