Peter King Praises Portis, Taylor, and Williams

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Offensive Player of the Week:
Washington RB Clinton Portis. I know. Culpepper threw for 425 last night, but you and I both know we could probably give Culpepper this nod every week. Portis was absolutely The Man at Soldier Field. In a game the Redskins had to have, or Joe Gibbs was going to walk back to Virginia, Portis took the whole thing on his shoulders, running a career-high 36 times for 171 yards.

FROM TEN THINGS I THINK:

Great, great play by Sean Taylor, catching a bootlegging Quinn for a sack from behind to kill a second-half drive. What speed on the kid.

I think one of the things I like about Chicago coach Lovie Smith is the appreciation for his job and the world he works in. The other day, someone asked him about coaching against Joe Gibbs, and he said, "How can you not like a guy like Joe Gibbs? It's an honor for me to coach against a guy like that."

I think Gregg Williams has to be the major candidate for coach of the year. I don't care if he's only a coordinator. You only have to see the Redskins to know how great a job he's done choreographing a defense so punishing he's turned two semi-softies, Shawn Springs and Fred Smoot, into not only cover corners but excellent and hard-hitting (as hard as they can, anyway) corners.