Tony McGee's Thoughts on the Philly Game

[offiss]

You confuse size with power, there are backs who don't carry a lot of weight yet are powerful runners, ricky ervins was built like a fire plug, Byner was bigger and ran with much more power than Portis, Portis has fast legs not powerful.

Portis put on the weight to survive in a Gibbs system, and why do you think that is? Because he couldn't handle the beating he took last season and figured the extra weight would help him endure the punishment that he was so unaccustomed to recieving playing in denver.

The failed experiment is his added weight, but perhaps you can take that up with Tony, an X football player who may know a little about talent evaluation.

As I said before 1300 yds is absolutly meaningless as far as I am concerned, Portis was incapable of getting 1 and 2 yards when we were 1st and goal, or 3rd and 4th downs, meaningful yards, Gibbs pounded 2 years off his carreer trying to get this guy 1500 yds, bottom line he went from the highest yards per carry in denver, to one of the lowest yards per carry for us.

Your point about little Joe W. is a great point, for what I have said all along, just like Joe, Portis is a third down change of pace type back, if you do some research on this you will find a RB named Riggins took the bulk of the handoffs and ran for the tough yards, and yes he was a big dude.