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Originally Posted by Southpaw
For the record; When Stephen Davis came back from his ankle injury a few years back, he ran the ball on Washington's first offensive play of the preseason, gained 12 yards, and came out of the game. LaDainian Tomlinson runs an average of two plays in the first preseason game of each season. It's not unusual for a team to pull the starting tailback after only a few plays, especially if they're the unquestioned starter.
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There are many, many examples of the opposite. Gibbs wasn't working portis to the bone or anything. He ran a different formation on every play on that drive by the way. They were just trying different things out. Portis ran one play. Gibbs/Saunders didn't want portis to be overworked so he gave him a single run. Its not like they would know he would try and become a wrestler and body slam a defender to the ground.
Coaches don't have to do it. If they choose to take someone out that is fine but the coaches weren't wreckless here. They didn't give portis 8 runs or a first quarter. They didn't make a mistake. What happened, happened. Coaches can't be to be put at fault for this. It was a series and to put this on a coach is dumb. I don't even know if that is what he was doing but if it was it was dumb. My opinion, my homer, band wagon, supposed fan opinion.