Portis: The Ultimate Team Player

[mooby]

are you kidding me? portis sucks, ladell easily could've done what he did. j/k portis is worth what we are paying him.

[jdlea]

Clinton is a beast!

[dblanch66]

Originally Posted by mooby

are you kidding me? portis sucks, ladell easily could've done what he did. j/k portis is worth what we are paying him.

dude, what game did you watch?

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by dblanch66

dude, what game did you watch?

I wouldn't say that he "sucks" but, I haven't exactly been blown away by his performances so far.

He has 3.4 yards per carry in 9 games against NFC East opponents. To me, that's very, very average considering what we gave up to get him.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

I wouldn't say that he "sucks" but, I haven't exactly been blown away by his performances so far.

He has 3.4 yards per carry in 9 games against NFC East opponents. To me, that's very, very average considering what we gave up to get him.

My calculations have him at 166 carries for 588 yards or 3.54 yards per rush in 9 NFC East games.

Not a big difference I know, but for the sake of being accurate let's give him credit for that additional .14.

Personally I don't care what his yards per carry is as long as we win our division games.

[onlydarksets]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Personally I don't care what his yards per carry is as long as we win our division games.

Even if we are grossly overpaying him? What's the point of paying $6 million a year to do the job someone else can do for $1 million? That said, I think Portis brings more than YPC, and I think he is worth the money.

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by onlydarksets

Even if we are grossly overpaying him? What's the point of paying $6 million a year to do the job someone else can do for $1 million? That said, I think Portis brings more than YPC, and I think he is worth the money.

What does he have to do to earn his money? Be LaDanian Tomlinson? Portis may not be having a Pro Bowl year as far as numbers go, but he is one of only a handful of complete tailbacks in the league. He's probably the best blocking tailback in the league, he can catch out of the backfield as good as anyone, and he is still a home run threat.

People are trying to compare him to Tiki or Shawn Alexander, but if Portis had the holes to run through that those two do, he'd have similar numbers. And for those of you who think we should've picked up Alexander instead of Portis, you need to watch more Seahawks games. Alexander is a pure edge runner. Not at all a Gibbs style runner. Notice when they played Washington, he was completely ineffective running between the tackles. His only substantial gain came on an edge play.

[onlydarksets]

Originally Posted by Southpaw

What does he have to do to earn his money? Be LaDanian Tomlinson? Portis may not be having a Pro Bowl year as far as numbers go, but he is one of only a handful of complete tailbacks in the league. He's probably the best blocking tailback in the league, he can catch out of the backfield as good as anyone, and he is still a home run threat.

People are trying to compare him to Tiki or Shawn Alexander, but if Portis had the holes to run through that those two do, he'd have similar numbers. And for those of you who think we should've picked up Alexander instead of Portis, you need to watch more Seahawks games. Alexander is a pure edge runner. Not at all a Gibbs style runner. Notice when they played Washington, he was completely ineffective running between the tackles. His only substantial gain came on an edge play.

Um...reread my post. You are agreeing with me.

[onlydarksets]

Originally Posted by dblanch66

dude, what game did you watch?

dude, what post did you read?

i was also very impressed by portis. i was actually more impressed that the espn crew picked up on this as well. they did that montage of portis blocking on three or four plays and he was just manhandling people.