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Originally Posted by jacobyfan

I was going to say the exact same thing. "Injury prone" is something you say to try and sound like you know what the hell you're talking about. He might as well have written: "On top of that, the Redkins return in 2005 with a seriously injury prone lineup. Patrick Ramsey, LaVar Arrington, Jon Jansen, Matt Bowen, Michael Barrow, Andre Lott, and Phillip Daniels all missed significant playing time over the last several years due to injuries." Make sure it's implied that if the guy missed more than 8 games in the last three years that he's likely to have his knees spontaneously combust at any given moment. It's pretty ridiculous. If you're going to argue that we won't have a good year, you can make a decent case especially since I think it's true you could say we have "unproven wide recievers" and an "unproven QB". However, It's a stretch to say our secondary will be worse (unless ST doesn't play) and our LB core and Dline look to be better simply due to people returning from injuries.

I still believe that we will begin to win at some point simply due to a change of culture and a change of attitude. Someone else pointed out how remarkable the change was last year when we played hard the to the end. We thrashed the Vikings worse than the score indicated and they won a playoff game. If we score 7 more points a game, we go 11-5 at worst not counting the screw-job against green bay. 5 points more a game puts us barely in the top 20 in offense (points-wise) and makes us 10-6. Remember that most people who comment on this don't watch our games. They see the the losses and see the stats for how poor our offense was and draw their conclusions. Those people are best ignored. These are the same people that would say Portis was a "system back". I has the fortune of being in Albuquerque and seeing all the broncos games during Portis's last season in Denver. You would have to be the world's biggest retard to say that after actually watching those games. The man has moves on moves.

nice post but i hope you don't consider me the world's biggest retard when i say, IN A WAY, portis is a system back. yes he has moves on top of moves but in order for him to make those moves he has to have space and for him to have space he needs to be in a SYSTEM that creates space. joe gibbs' system did not create enough space for portis to be at his full efectivness last year which is why gibbs and co have decided to get smaller , faster wr and spread the formations out this coming season. portis is not a ONE system back, i'm sure there are multiple systems he would excell in but he did not fit into joe's system last year. so to say clinton portis is not a system back is not completely true nor false.