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Posted by Sheil Kapadia on January 29, 2009, 8:51 a.m.
Hall of Famer John Riggins ripped Clinton Portis during a media briefing in Tampa and also criticized Commanders management for allowing the situation to escalate.
“He’s already a headache,” Riggins said, according to Mark Maske of The Washington Post. “You mean is he going to get worse? I don’t know. I said that at the end of the season and I believe that unless he changes the way he views himself and views his contributions to the team, then I think that that could be problematic for the Commanders. It’s a bad situation, created probably by the people who run the team, that he’s been allowed to take the course that he has.
“I don’t think there’s any turning back now because obviously to a certain extent Clinton Portis has the team over a barrel from my understanding of the amount of money that he’s owed, guaranteed money that becomes really cost-prohibitive to get rid of him over a [salary] cap issue. There’s not that many teams that would be interested in Clinton Portis, I don’t think, and so they have a bad situation on their hands. [That’s] my personal take on it.”
Riggins went on to say some of the players are going backwards, Santana Moss isn’t a No. 1 receiver, the offensive line needs help, and the defense needs someone who can rush the passer.
Portis, meanwhile, said in an earlier interview that bringing Jim Zorn back was the right move.
“You get tired of all that change, you know,” Portis said. “I think having Coach Zorn around, I think he’s going to have the opportunity to learn. You don’t have to go through the massive change of learning a new playbook, coming in early, preparing to do this, preparing to do that, gotta learn this. I think you give the players in the system the opportunity to learn the system and hopefully execute it better.”
Hall of Famer John Riggins ripped Clinton Portis during a media briefing in Tampa and also criticized Commanders management for allowing the situation to escalate.
“He’s already a headache,” Riggins said, according to Mark Maske of The Washington Post. “You mean is he going to get worse? I don’t know. I said that at the end of the season and I believe that unless he changes the way he views himself and views his contributions to the team, then I think that that could be problematic for the Commanders. It’s a bad situation, created probably by the people who run the team, that he’s been allowed to take the course that he has.
“I don’t think there’s any turning back now because obviously to a certain extent Clinton Portis has the team over a barrel from my understanding of the amount of money that he’s owed, guaranteed money that becomes really cost-prohibitive to get rid of him over a [salary] cap issue. There’s not that many teams that would be interested in Clinton Portis, I don’t think, and so they have a bad situation on their hands. [That’s] my personal take on it.”
Riggins went on to say some of the players are going backwards, Santana Moss isn’t a No. 1 receiver, the offensive line needs help, and the defense needs someone who can rush the passer.
Portis, meanwhile, said in an earlier interview that bringing Jim Zorn back was the right move.
“You get tired of all that change, you know,” Portis said. “I think having Coach Zorn around, I think he’s going to have the opportunity to learn. You don’t have to go through the massive change of learning a new playbook, coming in early, preparing to do this, preparing to do that, gotta learn this. I think you give the players in the system the opportunity to learn the system and hopefully execute it better.”
