Award Game BallS

18 wasn't the first to mention portis. i said that i had voted for portis. that was in #15.portis was also mentioned in #8

practically afterthoughts. Portis is completely taken for granted on this board.

I take offense to that (not really, I just dont know what other saying there are). I dont think there a single person here that takes Portis for granted. So people pointed out a few other players before Portis. Maybe its because Portis does what he is supposed to do. No one is taking him for granted, its just alot more suprising when a James Thrash has a big game, therefore people might give him a few extra pats on the back, whereas Portis lights it up every week.

I voted Portis, because he was the entire o.

But I'd say:

Offensive gameball: Portis
Defensive gameball: Griffen
Special Teams gameball: Thrash

Griffen was a monster, as he's been all year. The play of our two all-pro looking corners was excellent as well. And Marcus Washington. That guy can bring it!

Thrash was incredible. He didn't just down it on the one twice, but he had a killer return, and a few tackles as well. But let's not forget that Block!!!! Jacobs, no less, though it looked like a couple of them might have got it.

Now if only we had a QB....

i'm not talking about just in this thread. Portis is hardly ever mentioned. when someone isn't recognized for 'doing what he's supposed to' and others are, thats being taken for granted.

i'm not talking about just in this thread. Portis is hardly ever mentioned. when someone isn't recognized for 'doing what he's supposed to' and others are, thats being taken for granted.

Portis isn't mentioned a lot in other threads because he is doing his job...Here in armchair quarterback land we like to talk more about what's going wrong than what's right...haven't you noticed. It seems like 90% of the talk on this board is about how poor Brunell is playing and the other 10% is telling ZackMills to stop using the Smoking Emoticon (j/k). Really I would think the board as a whole recognizes or better yet understands that Portis is doing what needs to be done. We have all been :banghead: since Brunell can't throw the damn ball so that's more the topic lately. Why talk about what's working...it's more fun to discuss what's wrong and compare opinions about different things...except any of ZackMills opinions (again j/k).

heh, no argument there. but this thread is about game balls, and that means recognizing.

Portis gets mine for the offense, he's been huge lately and seems to be settling into this offense very nicely. He's on pace for 1600+ yards. If it wasn't for him we'd be 0-8. We have 3 wins and in each win he's ran for 100+ yards. There's no coincidence there.

On defense gotta give it to Griffin. It will be a crime if he doesn't go to Hawaii at seasons end.

Special teams Thrash gets it with a close 2nd to Jacobs for getting his hand on the punt. We really needed the D or ST to step up and get a score for us, and today the ST play all around was excellent.

The fourth personal fowl was on Gibbs for letting Burnell stay in the game.

Thrash and Tupa. Teams got this win and actually all of the ST guys deserve a game ball. First time since the 80's a blocked kick returned for a touchdown and it won the game.