where the Portis haters?

[Daseal]

Smootsmack, we've abandonned the old Gibbs style of football as far as the power running game (thank god) and it was a good move by him. Now, if he can switch the QBs Ill be a happy man.

I've questioned if Portis was a system back or not. One thing you can't say is he doesn't try. The guy's dedicated to winning. Gotta love it. I think he'll break 1500 this year and be in the top 3 rushing. Hopefully he can get more than 2 TDs and 1 throwing in the 2nd half of the season.

[offiss]

Here I am, as I said from the day we traded for him my biggest concern was he was a system back, I also said he couldn't play conventional Gibb's smash mouth football, I felt he would have success running the counter trey, because you can read and react but not even that worked, we put in some zone blocking as I said we should do because it suit's Portis's running ability, and guess what? We did, and Clinton is running again, great job by Gibb's and Buge's implimenting those blocking schemes on the fly and relativly quick I might add, I do believe that he is far more than a system back at this point, very few back's could do what he does in that system even though he need's that type of blocking scheme to be successful, he's far better than anyone denver has I don't care what kind of number's they put up, after watching him yesterday I have to say I believe we got the better end of the deal for Champ, I alway's maintained Champ is good not great, Clinton in this system can be great and if he stay's healthy I believe he will be a great RB for us, so eating crow is really not on the menu for those of us who insisted [dasael] and a few other's who understood what he needed to be a success for us, the fact that he's now having success as soon as we change the blocking for him only reinforces our assessment of him.