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Originally Posted by SUNRA
I'm not concerned at all with the run blocking. Portis has to way for his blockers to open the hole instead of running on their hills and causing one of the fumbles. Portis gained 1,500 yds. for two consecutive seasons because of big one play yard gains. He also showed us that he can run a WR route and catch a TD if he has to. That's a play that we should use against Dallas.
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Sunra, are you saying Portis doesn't know how to follow his block's? He may be the most instinctive back in the league at following block's, that's what the Denver Blocking scheme is predicated on, following your blocker's until a hole emerges then hit it, what you have to understand is, when you have a straight ahead blocking scheme, the hole is either there or it isn't, it doesn't allow for free lansing as a back, which takes away some of Portis's best attributes, any back can run through a gaping hole, and Portis has the speed to take it farther than most, but we are really not maximixing his abilities if we have him running stright ahead, he need's to be in a trapping type of running game in order to use his read and react abilitiy, we don't have to tranform the entire blocking phylosophy, but we could put in a couple of play's that Denver use to run for him to see if it help's, 50 mil for a back, I would change what ever I had to to make sure he succeed's, and no way does it have to be a dramatic change, football is about adjusting to your talent, well let's see what the coaches come up with.