Portis and the Denver System Revisited

[memphisskin]

Overpaying is Snyder's standard MO, he's lived for the spotlight since he bought the team and signing guys to big deals gets you on the news.

I think the deal with Denver is win-win, and will prove out to be just that. Is Portis the guy who's going to stick his nose in there and grind out the tough yards? No, but that's not why you get a player like Clinton Portis. And you don't bring back a Joe Gibbs to get the reincarnation of John Riggins, otherwise we would have traded for Mike Alstott instead of Portis. You get Portis because he has the ability to change a game every time he touches the ball. You bring back Joe Gibbs because he brings credibility and hopefully stability to the Skins in a time when we are woefully short on the former and in desparate need of the latter.

Portis will definitely last the season, he's a football player and last I checked we signed him to play football. And he misses any time, then we've got players in place who can step up, hopefully. The thing about Gibbs is that there is a method to his madness, he runs inside to set up the counter, he runs the counter to set up the play action, he runs motion to dictate matchups to the defense. Joe Gibbs is like Shaq, toilet paper and toothpaste, he's been proven to be effective.

Gibbs will right the ship, and our own runaway expectations will have to be more in line with reality. I want the Skins in the playoffs just as much as anyone else, but the playoffs don't start this weekend.