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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Portis carried this offense down the stretch last year and he was one of the main reasons we won 5 in a row to get to the playoffs. If you can't appreciate that you just can't appreciate a quality football player.

Offiss, you're right you can't always measure a back by his stats, but I don't think there's another back in this league that does as much as Portis does when he doesn't have the ball. He's one of the best backfield blockers I've ever seen. He always gives maximum effort and he's one of the toughest guys around, how many times did we see him limp out of a game last year only to return a few plays later?

He earned every penny of his salary last year and then some. A team record 1516 yards, 4th in the NFL in rushing, 9 games over 100 yards, 4.3 yards per carry, 11 touchdowns, 30 catches... I'm not sure what else you could want from him, but he's definitely a top back in this league who is still very underappreciated by some fans.

If you can't get on board with Clinton Portis, I really don't understand what you're watching. I know it stinks to have to suck it up once in a while and admit a Gibbs move panned out as planned despite what your thoughts on the matter might have been, but in this instance I think there's no denying Portis has proved to be a quality player for us.

I love Portis and all he has brought to the game. Remember late in the season (I'm not sure who we were playing) but Portis meet a blitzer in the middle of the line and knock him out of the game. After the O was off the field he was on the sidelines telling everyone how he leveled that player. He got injured on that play but keep on playing. I think he has realy started to like playing smash mouth football. If I had one thing that I would like to see him do next year is break some big ones for TD's as of todate I can only remember the one against Tampa. Don't get me wrong he has had some big plays for TD's just not the long 60 to 70 yard quick TD's.