Portis

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Originally Posted by Redskins8588

I usually agree with your assesments of players but this time I do not heed your OPINION of Portis. I will admit that I am guilty of being against the trade for Portis, but that was due to me not knowing what kind of player we were about to recieve.

Portis in my OPINION is one of the best if not the best in the league at picking up blitzes and throwing his body for a block. Also he is a TEAM player in every sense of the word. Portis came here and due to his play on the field he has turned me from being a doubting Thomas to a TRUE BELIEVER!!!

As I stated earlier in this thread and many times on this site when ever people start to thrash Portis, who else would you want? People tend to forget that we do not have Davis no more, we let him go for Candidate, that was a smooth move Spurrier. And until last season Betts was injured as often as Rex Grossman. So again who else would you want in our backfield?

I guess this is where I should request for forgiveness from one Mr. Clinton Portis. Make no bones about it, I am one of his biggest fans, and I am as happy as a child in a candy store that the Washington Redskins have him in there backfield.

Who would I rather have at RB? Well I would start with the same guy I said at the time when we decieded to seek a trade for Bailey, and that would be 1 Sean Alexander! He was available and we could have had him straight up for Champ, instead of giving up an additional 2nd rd pick, he is more of a Gibbs type back, and at the time he wanted out of Seattle, I am sure we wouldn't have had to pay him like Clinton either, Clinton was paid like he ran behind the Arizona Cardinals line for 1600 yards, now if he managed 1600 yards with the cards I would give him his due, but the fact is Denver can take a scrub and make him look like Barry Sanders, whoever want's to keep pointing to his 1300 yards can, if you run a guy enough times anything is possible, the fact is he had the lowest YPC out of any legitimate back, I know it's a tough pill to swallow because of all we invested in him, and all we could of had if we didn't go the Portis route.

You are correct about Betts though, I personally felt Betts was a better back for our team than Portis, and I still believe he fit's Gibbs style far better than Clinton, but Betts is turning out to be a back that can't alway's be counted on week in and week out, to many nagging injuries. Put Bett's in denver and he would be the next 1600 yard back.

When we traded for Portis I said we would have to change the blocking scheme to fit him, it took Gibbs a year but he finally did it, or did he? Despite the talk of a new blocking scheme, has anyone really seen anything remotly resembling what they do in Denver? I haven't.

As for Clinton being a game breaker? As far as I can tell he had 1 game that could be considered a game breaker, and that was last season in our opener VS Tampa, and really it was only 1 play that allows that to be considered, that's it, I don't want to hear about his potential game breaking abilities, because as Parcells say's, potential means you aint done nothing yet! What he did in Denver is in the past, that counts for zero as far as we are concerned.

Is Clinton a good blocker? Maybe? Is he a good teamate? probably, Does he work his butt off? Again probably, but so do plenty of other backs in the league who never see the field, all those thing's are great but if it doesn't translate into success running the ball then really what good is it, A good attitude is a great thing but it has to be kept in perspective, these guys are there to play football and produce, there not there to be finding homes for abandoned kittens down at the local supermarket.