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Originally Posted by illdefined
i'm on vacation in the caribbean but just have to step in here and defend my man Portis. look at Portis's carries this year and tell me again he doesn't want to run. 3.3 ypc with a leaky OLine and conservative (ie. predictable, some even say outdated) offense and he still wanted more touches. almost 1400 yds and he played hurt all year too. didn't you claim Rod Gardner was our offensive MVP this year?
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That was stated for the first half of the season and he was, if your going to quote me do it correctly, 3.3 yards in any offense is horrible, I am now through tap dancing around Portis, he's a bust, nothing more than a 3rd down change of pace back who accumulated most of his yard's in denver against a KC team that couldn't stop a cheerleader from having a 100yard day, Portis is a primadonna who want's to get through the line of scrimmage without being touched put a couple of good hit's on him and he backs down, Bett's hit's the holes with everything he has whether they are there or not, and yes behind the same pourous offensive line Bett's plowed through for a nice 100 yard game in his first start this season, Portis will be a better runner if we open more holes for him as if no other back would as well, Bett's get's yards when there is barley a running lane, Portis get's zip when there isn't a running lane, when our line reaches the point where they are opening holes big enough for Portis to run through we could have plenty of other back's moving the chain's for us as well, further more a back quite often has to take some shot's early to get his yard's later in the game Portis can't do that he can't take the punishment, the coaches all know who the better back is they just can't admit it because of the money that was given to Portis, why do think Portis was on the bench for the entire second half a few week's ago without an injury? Bottom line if Bett's ran in the denver system the last 2 year's and Portis ran in our's, Bett's would be looked at as an elite back and Portis would be our change of pace 3rd down back, as I said when we traded for him he can't run between the tackles and he proved it this year!