The New Running Game?

[offiss]

Originally Posted by GoSkins!

Another thing they needed, and got, to make the strech / gap plays work is more speed on the line. Last year our lineman just had to little speed to get out onto the linebackers. Also, Portis had to wait longer on the slower lineman. This is a key reason we brought in Rabach. Now, we have Jansen and Raybach getting out faster than Raymer and Brown. This will make a big difference over the course of a game / season.

Schneed10, you make a good point about the playaction being recognized. I am sure that Gibbs will find ways to design things to make it less obvious. With the speed Portis has he might be gone before they realize what play we called.

My thought all along was not Portis's inability to run the counter trey, but the inability for the line to block it, they can say Portis over ran it all they want I didn't see that, what I saw was no where to run regardless of how he ran, and I think our lineman were just attrocious run blocking last year, as I said at the time our center position was basically none existant last year, I really hope that between Jansen, and Rabach, that will make all the difference in the world for Portis along with some stretch play's, Portis is not a straight ahead runner he need's to be utilized like Marshall Faulk, he need's to see a lot of draws and screens to utilize his speed and quickness, pounding the line with him is fruitless he is not a powerful runner, Bett's is a much stronger runner and can be used in the capacity if neccasary.

[GoSkins!]

I heard that Portis put on 10 lbs to help him fit the system better. Maybe with a little bigger Portis and a system that is a little more taylored to him we will see great things happen.