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offiss · 10-03-2004, 04:36 PM

well 77 you beat me to this thread, Portis is a system back, as I said when we dealt for him, he need's room to manuver, straight ahead running is going to make him the highest paid backup in the history of the NFL, in Denver he never had to deal with getting hit from both sides, with defenders standing him up in the hole and ripping at his arm's from both sides, he was usually in the open field, even if it was behind the line of scrimmage, he was put into a lot of 1 on 1 matchup's, Denver use's zone blocking, where 1 side of the line block's down while the other side pull's and pick's off the D-end and the LB's, then it's the back's job to find the hole, and explode through it, and that is what Portis is best at, If we keep running him between the tackles like we are, we will find that Bett's is a better back for that kind of runnning.

10-03-2004, 04:36 PM	#6
offiss Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: sparta, new jersey [ northern jersey ] Age: 61 Posts: 3,097	well 77 you beat me to this thread, Portis is a system back, as I said when we dealt for him, he need's room to manuver, straight ahead running is going to make him the highest paid backup in the history of the NFL, in Denver he never had to deal with getting hit from both sides, with defenders standing him up in the hole and ripping at his arm's from both sides, he was usually in the open field, even if it was behind the line of scrimmage, he was put into a lot of 1 on 1 matchup's, Denver use's zone blocking, where 1 side of the line block's down while the other side pull's and pick's off the D-end and the LB's, then it's the back's job to find the hole, and explode through it, and that is what Portis is best at, If we keep running him between the tackles like we are, we will find that Bett's is a better back for that kind of runnning.