Portis is a BIG problem!!!

[CantonLegend]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Well this is your opinion as an outsider, which is understandable. However, my beef (and many people's beef) with you is that you ignore any arguments made by those in the DC area or who closely follow the team.

In theory, what you said should be the case. It should be the coach's decision to put a player on the field, and not the owner. However, this clearly shows your lack of knowledge of the antics of Dan Snyder.

However, in two separate incidents, Portis had public disagreements with the head coach of the team (one with Gibbs, and the other with Zorn). In both situations, while the coaches were right in their intentions/arguments/actions, it was Portis that came on the winning side of these disagreements (I am too lazy to look up the articles about this).

Once again, you may bring some valid points to an argument, but you shouldn't discredit those of us that may know the team better than a Saints fans. Just like you seem to know more about Reggie Bush than I do.

i would never intentionally try to pretend like i know more than you guys......but i do realize that losing brings out the worst in people and like ive said before......when teams are losing, there is always a scapegoat......portis may not be the flower everyone wants him to be....but as a rose he looks and smells pretty good on the field......its off the field that he may get you with his thorns

im trying to point out that even tho his numbers are down this season, calling for his head is jumping the gun......especially considering his history with this franchise and his amazing ability to carry the team on his back almost single handidly

is there another back in the league that is asked to do as much as portis? maybe, but none of them do it as well as portis

you guys definitly know more about the redskins than i do......but i have watched games and i have watched portis and i didnt notice anything significantly worse than what he has shown the past few seasons

one thing that you cant ignore is the dropoff in carries per game.....if he would get his normal 6 more carries per game he would have nearly 700 yards already this season and would be right where you guys expect him to be