Portis admits he asked for Sellers to be benched
Washington Redskins RB Clinton Portis was involved in a heated dispute with FB Mike Sellers during an after a victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this season. But, afterwards, everyone tried to downplay it and not make a big deal about it. Now, speaking to NFL Network about the incident, Portis does his best impersonation of the English language in describing what really happened that day.
Dan Steinberg the Washington Post does a great job of getting into the details of the mess here.
“The Mike Sellers incident was blown out as well,” Portis began. “Mike Sellers came to me and said, ‘Get on guys.’ You know, that was his message to me. He came to me, he said ‘Man, you need to be more of a vocal leader. Get on guys, tell guys to get it together.’
“I said, ‘Mike, no, that’s not me.’ For three weeks in a row, I said ‘Mike, that’s not me, I don’t want to get into any confrontation with anybody’. He said, ‘From me to anybody else, if you feel like somebody’s lacking, let them know.’
“We got into the game, I felt like Mike was lacking,” Portis said. “I let Mike know that he was lacking. Listen, that’s what he asked me to do, so I just asked him, I told him, I said Mike, c’mon baby, I need you. We went out, it happened again. Therefore I came to the sideline and I told them, I was like I just didn’t want a fullback in front of me, put me in one-back.”
“And then they was like, ‘Well, we want to run our game plan for two backs.’ I said put Todd Yoder in front of me and run downhill. All of the sudden, Mike take that and ‘Whoooo, you trying to get me benched and you throwing me under the bus.’ You just asked me to come tell you if I had a problem. I told you in the game. It’s not like I didn’t tell Mike. I told him during the game, ‘C’mon Mike, I need you.’ And then I get to the sideline and it’s like blown out. I guess a coach or somebody went back and told him, ‘Oh, Clinton wanted you out of the game,’ and then Mike addressed the situation.”
So then, the NFL Network guys reacted to it in their best version of the King’s English (seriously guys, we don’t care how long you played or how good you were, a critical part of your job now is to speak in coherent sentences.).
“That might be a problem if I come to the set tomorrow and say I don’t want to work with Warren Sapp, put Sapp on the bench and let me just sit right here with Marshall [Faulk],” Deion Sanders said. “That might be a problem.”
“It gonna be a problem,” Sapp agreed. “It gonna be a little bit. It gonna be a little bit.”
We can’t imagine Portis is around too much longer in D.C. He’s one headache after another and he’s just not that good anymore.
