Portis NOT overrated!!!

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Originally Posted by #56fanatic

Irish, I agree totally. Rams and Cards are the worst defenses in the league. I will believe we are this new team committed to running the ball "skins style" when we do it against teams that have something to play for. Like Dallas, NY, and even Philly, though philly is playing for nothing, they have alot of heart and dont quit, like the rams and cards. I do think there will be more plays of CP geared to running outside, but you cant run outside if you dont make teams respect your inside running game. Like the play action pass, teams have to respect different parts of you offensive attack for other parts to work. I read that Portis actually likes running inside alot. With that said, he needs to do better at letting holes develop rather than running over top of the blockers. By the way, were was Rock yesterday? Betts is healthy so Rock is relegated back to #3. The guy ran like a mad man last week and we cant atleast give him a few touches? HMMMM... thats questionable. I was looking forward to seeing him run again.

When you say you agree with Irish, I assume you mean that Portis' performance against the Rams is mitigated by the fact that the Rams defense is awful (you didn't quote, so it's hard to tell). If so, why does Portis' performance get an asterisk, yet Rock deserves to get more touches as a result of his performance against a bad team? Is it just because we played another bad defense in Arizona?

I do agree that the running attack needs internal balance, though. We have to shake it up a bit and make opposing defenses respect the edges to give up the inside and vice versa. Otherwise there is nothing to exploit.