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he did not play. here is the box scoreAnybody see this:
(Rotoworld) The Redskins allowed Clinton Portis to take 15 carries on Saturday night.
Impact: Portis had been struggling with knee tendonitis. That the team is confident in his health enough to give him a decent load is a good sign. Portis only gained 34 yards, but preseason stats are pretty meaningless.
I hadn't heard yet that he played. That's really good news.
Portis's value is down. I trade Colston straight up for him
I don't see that anywhere on Rotoworld. LinkAnybody see this:
(Rotoworld) The Redskins allowed Clinton Portis to take 15 carries on Saturday night.
Impact: Portis had been struggling with knee tendonitis. That the team is confident in his health enough to give him a decent load is a good sign. Portis only gained 34 yards, but preseason stats are pretty meaningless.
I hadn't heard yet that he played. That's really good news.
Uh, that game was on NFL Network and Portis was in street clothes on the sideline.I don't see that anywhere on Rotoworld. LinkAnybody see this:
(Rotoworld) The Redskins allowed Clinton Portis to take 15 carries on Saturday night.
Impact: Portis had been struggling with knee tendonitis. That the team is confident in his health enough to give him a decent load is a good sign. Portis only gained 34 yards, but preseason stats are pretty meaningless.
I hadn't heard yet that he played. That's really good news.
I wasn't fishing. Portis is on my team and the MFL site has links to articles related to specific players. This blurb was on there, but as you can see there is not a link to a "legitimate" media source (newspaper, etc...). There is a link to the article about his visit with Dr. Andrews."Portis takes 15 carries on Saturday nigh... (Rotoworld) The Redskins allowed Clinton Portis to take 15 carries on Saturday night.Impact: Portis had been struggling with knee tendonitis. That the team is confident in his health enough to give him a decent load is a good sign. Portis only gained 34 yards, but preseason stats are pretty meaningless. Sun Aug 12 8:52:00 a.m. CT 2007"I didn't see the game, I was trying to get some info. Apparently Rotoworld was mistaken about this.
This appears on my MFL page too. Very strange indeed.
I doubt it. Betts signed on to be the backup. If Portis is healthy, Portis>>>>>>>>Betts.
Portis definately didn't play. As stated earlier, he was in street cloths from the get go.
Thanks for posting that, I appreciate it.I wonder if MFL somehow found a Rotoworld article on Portis from last preseason and repeated that instead.
MFL's news comes from a database feed, not them. It'd be from rotoworld themselves
Betts is gaining value.
Apples meet Oranges
I took Betts in the 8th over the weekend in my local ten teamer as my 4th RB. I am happy with the pick. Tendonitis is a chronic, recurrent ailment. Portis may be just fine, but there is significant concern about his health and that does make Betts more valuable.
Ding Ding Ding , we have a winner , see T.O in Dallas as well.Deuce said:
Please insert standard - Can I be in your league? comment here.
If Betts can do what he did last year in that O, think about what Portis can do. Monster season and best value in the draft bar none. Pick him up and do not look back.
Interesting, thanks for posting. Maybe they won't have to amputate his leg just yet.
Shhhhh the more people that think tendonitis is like restructured knees the better. I love getting Portis in round 2.
Tendonitis isn't like a broken leg. It wouldn't preclude him from walking, running, or jumping. It just hurts like hell when you run (hard) and cut. Him jumping up and down tells us nothing.The problem I see with Portis isn't that he's missing preseason games. He's missing practices...lots and lots of them. Maybe he's fine. I'd buy into your milking it theory if he was practicing every day and then telling everyone who would listen how sore he was the day before or day of preseason games. But, he's essentially sitting out training camp.We'll see, but I have yet to see any good with Portis and this was a guy I was hoping to land in my upcoming draft.
He was practicing on Wednesday...FYI...I had posted it earlier in this thread as well as riding the stationary bike throughout every practice. He even lined up at safety in couple drills.(During Wednesday night's practice, Portis did several agility drills that had him stopping and starting and also making cuts. Yesterday, he said he did some exercises before the media was allowed to watch and then rode the stationary bike."I can tell the improvement," he said. "A week or two ago, we focused on the strength part. Now we're focusing on stretching it. Since we started that process, things have gone a lot better.")
Agreed Betts is value at round 6, portis at round 2 or 3 to rich for my FF team.
He didn't practice. He rode a stationary bike, did some exercises, and lifted weights. That's not practicing. That's called, "rehabbing."
Betts only value lies if Portis does not play. I think that taking Betts in round 6 (way to early for a bench player) is not nearly as good as having Portis in round 2-3 as a starter. Betts will not start on your fantasy team unless Portis is injured. This circumstance is not like MJD-Taylor, Peterson-Taylor, where the back up has more talent than the starter. People that draft Betts in the 6th are banking on an injury, that is a very risky way to draft.
I guess your disregarding the whole starting and stopping and also making cuts part...which is what you said was the hard part.
Not at all. That's part of rehabbing. Rehab is hard.I'm disregarding doing rehab work as "practicing." What Ladell Betts, Derrick Blaylock and others are doing is practicing. What Clinton Portis is doing in individual drills is "rehabbing" geared toward getting him back "practicing" alongside Betts and Blaylock.I don't quite understand what you are so unsure about. There's a reason the same media outlets (and Redskins websites) that are reporting Portis is cutting, running, and working with weights are pointing out in the same articles that he will have missed two weeks as of August 13. It's because he's not practicing yet.I guess your disregarding the whole starting and stopping and also making cuts part...which is what you said was the hard part.
I guess your disregarding the whole starting and stopping and also making cuts part...which is what you said was the hard part.
You are reading into this to much, the team is being cautious of their best offensive weapon as they should be.Not at all. That's part of rehabbing. Rehab is hard.I'm disregarding doing rehab work as "practicing." What Ladell Betts, Derrick Blaylock and others are doing is practicing. What Clinton Portis is doing in individual drills is "rehabbing" geared toward getting him back "practicing" alongside Betts and Blaylock.I don't quite understand what you are so unsure about. There's a reason the same media outlets (and Redskins websites) that are reporting Portis is cutting, running, and working with weights are pointing out in the same articles that he will have missed two weeks as of August 13. It's because he's not practicing yet.I guess your disregarding the whole starting and stopping and also making cuts part...which is what you said was the hard part.
I'm not reading into anything. My only point is that he's not practicing, which he isn't. I couldn't care less what the team is doing. You're either practicing with the team or you're not.You are reading into this to much, the team is being cautious of their best offensive weapon as they should be.Not at all. That's part of rehabbing. Rehab is hard.I'm disregarding doing rehab work as "practicing." What Ladell Betts, Derrick Blaylock and others are doing is practicing. What Clinton Portis is doing in individual drills is "rehabbing" geared toward getting him back "practicing" alongside Betts and Blaylock.I don't quite understand what you are so unsure about. There's a reason the same media outlets (and Redskins websites) that are reporting Portis is cutting, running, and working with weights are pointing out in the same articles that he will have missed two weeks as of August 13. It's because he's not practicing yet.I guess your disregarding the whole starting and stopping and also making cuts part...which is what you said was the hard part.
"Jumper's knee" is the most common form of tendinitis actually, so I highly doubt he has that type now.
As a LONG time sufferer of Pateller Tendinitis, which is what he has been diagnosed with, I can tell you that if it was bad at all, there's no way he would be jumping (after standing and cold) in celebration. That's like the one thing you wouldn't even think about. It's a simple "overuse" injury and the only real way to completely get rid of it is rest or "nonuse"....couple that with Portis' obvious distaste for the preseason and I'm not real worried. Also, in the NFL where cortisone shots are given out like candy, I can also vouch that a cortisone shot into the knees before a game would make it virtually pain free.My experience is from 5 straight years of pateller tendinitis resulting from college football and basketball. I would slide down all stair railings on campus because it hurt so bad to walk down stairs. I took every kind of ant-inflammatory daily, including stuff strong enough to need stomach medicine with it to protect the lining of my esophogus (sp?), had to ice before and after EVERYTHING down to half hour shootarounds, but in the end it was just a matter of putting up with the pain. As soon as my career was over, and I wasn't playing every day, it disappeared.Worst case scenario: Portis is in a lot of pain so he's resting it as that is the only way to get rid of it totally, then when game time comes he will ice the hell out of it, get shot up, go play pain free, then ice the hell out of it again and probably not practice until Thursday most weeks.Best case scenario: Portis has exaggerated the pain because he is a vocal proponent to limiting preseason games and doesn't want to play in them to begin with.Finally, count me in the school of "not worried about Betts assuming Portis is healthy".Bri said:
That's my message. When this first came out, I was already thinking "this is the guy who was telling the media last year how there should be half as many preseason games and they are a waste of time and risky for vets"....then when I read about him jumping around on the sideline, I just started chuckling to myself because it's pretty clear what's going on. Now, with this tidbit about the recent postgame interview and him laughing at the background remark.....case closed in my opinion. Maybe that's wishful thinking as a Portis owner...
in advance
< --------------------- and why is dis guy green and not golden????? 
