Who's better, Clinton Portis or Tatum Bell?

[offiss]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

It is nothing short of asinine to say that Tatum Bell is better than Clinton Portis based on one isolated game. I expect better from you, offiss.

As you can see in the headline there is a question mark, and the question was after 1 game, now I want to know who believes Portis outperformed Bell? Now that would be asinine.

Let's see, Bell scored 2 long TD's on crucial 3rd down plays, and rushed for 127 yds. against the toughest run defense in the league, In fact he's the only back to do it in the last year or so, and yes he did it without a passing game. Yes that's right I said 2 rushing TD's in 1 game against us, that's 1 shy of Portis's carreer rushing TD's for us.

Portis, fumbled once which resulted in a TD for denver, but apparently made some nice blocks on Al Wilson, but he did manage to crack the 100 yard barrier, so I guess I have to admit, I WAS WRONG!

Personally I believe without a doubt that Portis is a better pure runner and player than Bell, I also agree with many evaluation's through this thread on that comparison, but I really didn't start this thread to find out who believes Bell is better than Portis, I started this thread to shed light on the fact that even a player like Bell can put up big time numbers against the #1 run defense in that denver system, only to aluminate the fact that Portis is vastly over valued because of what he has done in that system, he has done nothing for us remotly resembling what he did in Denver? I am tired of hearing 1300yds, if you run a player enough and he can stay healthy that's very obtainable, the most telling stat is his 3.8 yards per carry, and he does not get it done in short yardage.

Bottom line you can't gauge a RB in denver, it's like trying to gauge a home run hitter at coors field in colorado, they both stop hitting HR's when they leave.

I don't lie to my friends and tell them how great they are when there not, and I am not going to talk about how great we are just because the Skins are my team, by buying into everything they do whether it is right, wrong, or indifferent.


Does anyone think that the Portis we have seen, is the same back you expected to see when we traded for him?