Only 2 days after ending a 4-12 season, Redskins players are taking shots at each other. Let's hope they don't do that literally and help the Wizards Gilbert Arenas out by taking one of those guns he does not want in the house.
Seriously, running back Clinton Portis started off by calling Jason Campbell an ineffective leader on ESPN980's The John Thompson Show. The Post summarizes it here. It seems #26 is trying to position himself to return next season, even though it will be to play for a head coach that gave him up a few years ago.
Quarterback Campbell fires back via an interview with the Post's Jason Reid. At first, you think it's frustration from yet another bad Redskins season. But the more you think about it, Campbell is probably frustrated for all the antics Portis has put the Redskins through.
No doubt Portis was a star. He came from Denver because Joe Gibbs wanted him as an essential cog in the offense. But production and his attitude, has come far below expectations. Did anyone expect him to be a model citizen? Not really, but his cocky attitude has only grown. So much to the point earlier this season, when he asked to have fullback Mike Sellers benched. Portis seems to forget that without Sellers, he'd get less than the pathetic few yards on average he achieved.
This seems to be the final straw. A couple of weeks ago, we wondered whether Campbell or Portis would return to the Redskins. Now, with reality setting in, Bruce Allen and the rest of the Redskins management has to figure out how to fill those roles. Campbell may not be the best quarterback, but he's the best available to the Redskins to start week 1 of the 2010 campaign. Portis is possibly past his prime. With Ladell Betts and company, there are already capable backs on the Redskins roster. It's time to cut Portis loose.
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