Change is nothing new, according to Portis
Many players have expressed frustration with the team's 2-4 record that includes four losses to teams that did not have a victory before they faced the Redskins. And some have privately described things behind the scenes as being in "chaos."
The upheaval occurring at Redskins Park, however, is nothing new to top running back Clinton Portis, who in six seasons with Washington has been involved in many unsettling situations.
"I've been enduring change since I've been here," Portis said Wednesday. "All of a sudden it's like take notice. It's like all of a sudden. This is not the first year that our line went down. It's like six years straight that our line went down. It's not the first year that we had a change. Every year, even when coach [Joe] Gibbs was here, we had three or four different coordinators. It's all of a sudden like a surprise, 'Oh, they got a new coordinator.'
It seems "we done had a new coordinator every year. We done had somebody new calling the plays. We done had something different. We done had new linemen. We done had a new this, a new that, a change in quarterback. All of a sudden it become shock. That's what it is around here - change. In the midst of that change, it bring news for ya'll [reporters]."
Some players are hanging their heads about the situation - which includes management's ongoing undermining of Coach Jim Zorn - but Portis "can't do nothing but handle it with humor. I can't keep moping around and everybody's sad and don't talk to each other.
"A couple of my teammates didn't even speak to me. I walked in, [wide receiver Santana Moss] didn't even speak to me. And [quarterback] Jason [Campbell] tried to let the door hit me in the face. I don't know what the ... I watched him look at me and then let the door slam in my face."
Not true, says Campbell.
"He was walking behind me. I didn't know he was that close," Campbell said. "He said, 'Darn, J, you ain't got to be that upset at everybody.' I said, 'I'm not upset.' It's a time to refocus, re-energize, find the inner energy and start over."
It seems the Redskins may be starting over again soon with a new head coach and, quite possibly, many new players. And with so much change since Daniel Snyder has owned the franchise, could the Redskins ever win another Super Bowl this way?
"I never won a Super Bowl, so I don't know how you win it," Portis said. "I think we're going to keep changing until we get the right pieces to win the Super Bowl. Hopefully, my career will still be going and I'll still be here at that time."
Not really sure to make of this. I think that players are getting tired of his comments and his antics. I applaud him for coming out and playing hurt but I think that they all do. We just don't hear about it. I don't think that he's much of a team player and the fact that he doesn't have a problem going over the coaches head to trash talk other players to the owner isn't going to rub anyone the right way.
I think it's time for CP to shut up and put up. Don't say, I'm not talking to the media. He needs to say, I'm not doing my job like I should. As a RB, I have to break tackles and get in the endzone. I haven't done that this year and it's time for me to focus.
