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Originally Posted by skinsguy
Well, first of all, it wasn't a poor offensive scheme. Secondly, if Portis is unhappy with how much he's going to be used (which sounds kind of stupid in my opinion), then he doesn't belong in Washington. This scheme relies on a run first approach and run often in order to control the ball and the clock. If this was actually a poor scheme, then Gibbs would have never been successful in his first tenure - and the excuse that football was different back then is hog wash.
Our offensive line had alot to do with Portis not gaining 10+ yards per carry.
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That's been the point why bring in a back like Portis when he clearly doesn't fit the scheme.
Now controlling the clock with the run is not a scheme, how you control it with the run is, and what I mean by that is what kind of a running game do we use, if it's a power running game then why bring in Portis? If it's a finess running game then why not do it.
Our line wasen't as bad as it was made out to be, I prefer to listen to Portis who has some experience running in that offense when he say's the other team's know where we are running the ball, couple that with opposing defenses stating that they knew where the plays were going, that the play's we ran were very simplistic, and easy to diagnois, I say that's an indictment on gibbs not the line, granted that our line was not great but not nearly as bad as they looked. I don't care how good your line is if you can't throw it enough to keep a defense honest you wont be able to run the ball, and we didn't come close to keeping the defenses honest.
I believe you said we had no need for a center/guard in the draft, yet blame the line for our running problems last year, and after seeing what you percieve to be a shabby line you wouldn't want to take the steps neccassary to add depth so if we have an injury we aren't strapped with a line that can't block?
I think the perception by some is that Gibb's used his big back's primarly on short yardage play's, well not so, he used them as his primary back, and used the speed guy's ala J.Washington, K.Bryant, and so on, on passing downs.
As for Football being different back in Gibbs first tenure? Yes, and no, What daseal is saying is Gibbs isn't running the team like he did back in the day, that's where the problem lies, yes with free agency, salary cap, clock management, things are different, but so is Gibbs, there is also something different about Gibbs now that wasen't back in the 80's, he had Bobby Beathard to bring in the players for him to succeed, I can tell you this Beathard found Schroeder in the 3rd, and Rypien, and Humphries in the 6th rd. About the same area we should have found Campbell.
Beathard left the Skins because he was fed up fighting with gibbs on personell, and I will give the trade that did it, it was the Gerald riggs for our #1, in which Beathard was going to use to draft Icky Woods, he allowed Gibbs to have his way and then left, his exact words "well Joe got his RB".
Gibbs of the past is gone he now has to reprove himself again, as he would be the first to agree, and after our abismal offensive effort last season he has a lot to prove.