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They did let him have another carry or so after the knee to the calf. Portis wanted back in, but they held him out. Somebody else thought that with the game out of hand, they weren't going to risk further injury to him & that's probably right.thxfn pansy, get your wig-wearing ahrse back in there
Not in the 3d $#%@ing quarter I can't.PS lmao @ James "Nobody" Thrash getting a last sec TD
I'd much rather have Portis in, during the 2 minute offense than Betts. Stupid to take out one of your most explosive players when running the 2 minute offense.I'm thinking if Saunders is not going to use him properly, the Skins might as well trade him next year.
However, Betts is not in the same class as Portis.
I think Saunders has something to add to this team, but he so far has failed to recognize what you pointed out, namely that this offense needs to flow through its RB's and Portis in particular. It also fits the personality of the o-line. It's clear that they can't run a pass-first offense with Mark Brunell leading them.
No, Portis is a top 3 RB talent wise.
I agree regarding Betts. He's no stud, but he's certainly good enough to start in the right situation, like Lamont Jordan or, as you said, Chester Taylor. The problem is that there are lots of guys in the league with that amount of skill level, and there are very few teams on the market for such guys who don't either already have such a guy on their roster or who aren't in line to sign a veteran FA stud (e.g. Edge), or to draft a rookie stud (e.g. Peterson).
Frankly, I would have put him into the game with 4 mins left when Aikman mentioned it. I was already thinking about it and stayed with the game simply to see if he played. Trying to climb inside Gibbs' head for a second though, I'd attribute it to two things. First, putting Campbell into the game immediately subjects the team to two full weeks (bye in week 8) of media speculation about Brunell's status. Gibbs, who has been through those wars before in Washington, didn't want to invite that in exchange for a couple of minutes of experience for Campbell. Not a decision I would make, but whatever, and I certainly don't have Gibbs' pedigree so I doubt he much cares what I would do there. Second, I think Gibbs wants Campbell to get a full week of first team snaps before he plays him. I think that that's babying him a bit too much, but it's that sentiment you will recall that has Collins second in line to replace Brunell if he went down during a game, but Campbell second in line if Brunell can't start a game.
I haven't closely followed the Colts this year, but I will say that Addai looked far more explosive and "active" than Rhodes did running the ball.
