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Originally Posted by Southpaw
Mostly without Portis? CP was playing on an injured shoulder for only eight games last season, and produced almost 50% of the yards a healthy Betts produced in 16 games. He also produces five more rushing touchdowns than Betts, and six less fumbles. Please expand on the "Mostly without Portis" comment, because your baseless and outright false statements are getting tough to follow.
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That's probably just your inability to comprehend.
Either Portis played or he didn't? On one had you say Portis got half the carries, on the other hand your insinuating that Betts had all the carries. The fact is if the season was split as you say 8 for Portis, which means that would leave 8 for betts, [at this point you may get out a calculater and check the math if your having trouble following] then who had more yards? I believe it was Betts. Didn't Betts almost set a Skins record when he took over full time for most consecutive 100 yard games? Didn't I see Portis doing damage control saying he wants to be able to run downhill just like betts was? We didn't run downhill with portis because he can't. He's to slow to the hole, Betts on the other hand hits the hole with everthing he has, unlike Portis who hesitates looking for a big gap, because he knows he ain't knocking anyone backwards. If you think the coaches didn't notice the difference in the running game in it's consistancy with Betts in there your sadly mistaken, you do not make the type of commitment to a back when you have a huge money in another back in Portis if you didn't see something better in Betts, and that something better is his ability to move the chains and get the tough yards, which is more important than the occasional big run.
Betts in 7 starts had 1,154 rushing yards on 245 carries, a 4.7 yards-per-carry average
In 9 starts Portis had 127 carries for 523yds for a 4.1 avg.
Who was more effective? Obviously Betts!
And for the record Betts 4.7 avg. is more than any average that Portis has had since he's arrived in DC, 4.3 was the best Portis could deliver. So if you want to cry injury go ahead I am sure there was a span in Portis's tenure here that he was healthy and couldn't touch maybe the most important stat of all for a RB, YARDS PER CARRY!