RabidRabbit
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I'm real concerned that Tiki will be taken at #4. Sure I have some doubts about him seeing that he's carried a heavy load, but he's a "fresher" 30+ back than most. Sort of like Priest was in that Tiki touches were limited earlier in his career. So if he's gone, I'm left with RBs I certainly felt were in a second tier behind the big 5.
Should I mix it up and go Manning at #5? Never, ever have I picked a QB in the first round (of course my first two picks last year were McAllister and Kevin Jones, but I still won the league with Jordan/Caddy/Larry/Fast Willie.
FYI: our league scoring gives 6 pts for all TDs, 1 pt for 25 yrds passing/10 yrds rushing. Oh and yeah, we can start 4 RB's per week (2 off flex spots).
Here's the quote from Byner today that makes me real iffy on Portis' ability (or the coaching staf's belief in Portis' ability) to carry the load.
"We're going to try and get it well and shoot for the first game, and hopefully everything will be fine by then," Portis said. "After I lay around and it gets stiff and locks up, it hurts. But when I'm active during the day, I'm OK.
"I'm going to give it a week before I start exerting."
Because of right shoulder surgery when he was in college, Portis knows overdoing it won't quicken his return.
"I know what to expect," he said. "I know how not to get hit and how not to fall. But I'm not going to be on the field playing timid. If it happens again, that's a chance I have to take. I won't change my style of play and be afraid because somebody is going to punish me. I have to play the same way I've been playing."
Portis will change one thing in the future, though. If he has to make a tackle during a preseason game, he won't.
"If I'm in that spot again, I'm going to watch him run down the sideline," he said.
In Portis' place, running back Ladell Betts -- who did not play at Cincinnati because of a hamstring injury, and Rock Cartwright will get the bulk of the action. Rookie Jesse Lumsden also will get a lot of work starting Saturday night against the New York Jets.
"With [betts and Cartwright] and the way things are set up, we can definitely have success with them," running backs coach Earnest Byner said. "Ladell looks at himself as a first-rate running back that can start in this league, and Rock is hungry for an opportunity."
But when Portis does return, it's unlikely he will stay 100 percent for long. And Byner said discussions already are under way to create ways to limit Portis' punishment.
"That's one of the aspects we have to consider," Byner said. "We have to look at the other guys stepping in even more so and possibly taking some of the pounding off him."
Should I mix it up and go Manning at #5? Never, ever have I picked a QB in the first round (of course my first two picks last year were McAllister and Kevin Jones, but I still won the league with Jordan/Caddy/Larry/Fast Willie.
FYI: our league scoring gives 6 pts for all TDs, 1 pt for 25 yrds passing/10 yrds rushing. Oh and yeah, we can start 4 RB's per week (2 off flex spots).
Here's the quote from Byner today that makes me real iffy on Portis' ability (or the coaching staf's belief in Portis' ability) to carry the load.
"We're going to try and get it well and shoot for the first game, and hopefully everything will be fine by then," Portis said. "After I lay around and it gets stiff and locks up, it hurts. But when I'm active during the day, I'm OK.
"I'm going to give it a week before I start exerting."
Because of right shoulder surgery when he was in college, Portis knows overdoing it won't quicken his return.
"I know what to expect," he said. "I know how not to get hit and how not to fall. But I'm not going to be on the field playing timid. If it happens again, that's a chance I have to take. I won't change my style of play and be afraid because somebody is going to punish me. I have to play the same way I've been playing."
Portis will change one thing in the future, though. If he has to make a tackle during a preseason game, he won't.
"If I'm in that spot again, I'm going to watch him run down the sideline," he said.
In Portis' place, running back Ladell Betts -- who did not play at Cincinnati because of a hamstring injury, and Rock Cartwright will get the bulk of the action. Rookie Jesse Lumsden also will get a lot of work starting Saturday night against the New York Jets.
"With [betts and Cartwright] and the way things are set up, we can definitely have success with them," running backs coach Earnest Byner said. "Ladell looks at himself as a first-rate running back that can start in this league, and Rock is hungry for an opportunity."
But when Portis does return, it's unlikely he will stay 100 percent for long. And Byner said discussions already are under way to create ways to limit Portis' punishment.
"That's one of the aspects we have to consider," Byner said. "We have to look at the other guys stepping in even more so and possibly taking some of the pounding off him."
