Sep 1, 2005
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Known as the dean of American pro football writers, Bob Oates has been long known as a strong advocate of pass offense, the subject of this two-part series. The second part follows.
The significant advantages of passing over running have been...
Sep 6, 2005
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With Bill Belichick in charge and with Tom Brady continuing as the NFL's most competent quarterback, the New England Patriots are again the best team in football as another five-month race to the Super Bowl begins this week. There are, altogether, only...
Oct 5, 2005
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One good thing about life in Los Angeles is that on fall Sundays, there are three NFL games on network TV — including two at the same time — as there were last Sunday morning, when, in the same three-hour span, L.A. football fans could compare...
Oct 15, 2003
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With a quarterback named Jake Delhomme, the unbeaten Carolina Panthers (5-0) will entertain a preseason Super Bowl favorite next Sunday, the Tennessee Titans (4-2), whose passer, Steve McNair, proved again in NFL Week 6 that he's an all-pro candidate....
Nov 3, 2004
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Big Ben Roethlisberger vs. the distinguished Donovan McNabb: Now there's a matchup made in heaven. In a game to be presented on Pittsburgh's Heinz Field next Sunday, McNabb, the Philadelphia Eagles' veteran quarterback, will lead pro football's only 7-0...
Oct 13, 2004
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The world is suddenly full of great quarterbacks — or, maybe, these folks are merely very good. Anyhow, they're all over the country. At least two of them are still in school, Aaron Rodgers of Cal and Matt Leinart of USC. And at least two other...
Oct 6, 2004
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The New England Patriots, still strangely underrated despite their successes and still short of great players, are approaching greatness as a team this year only because of the unique talents of two football men, their coach, Bill Belichick, and...
Oct 9, 2001
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At Indianapolis next Sunday, in the AFC night game of the year, the Oakland Raiders aren't likely to be bothered by the same thing that troubled them against Dallas last Sunday, when they couldn't take an 0-4 team seriously. They weren't up for the...
Nov 12, 2002
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When Ram Coach Mike Martz finds himself without a great quarterback, he simply creates a new one. If it takes genius to make such a thing happen, that's what Martz is.
Against the Chicago Bears in the 501st game of the Monday night series, he will show...
Nov 17, 2004
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The St. Louis Rams are doing the unthinkable. With their attack-passing system, they're killing off the West Coast Offense as the best way to play football in the 21st Century.
A West Coast team runs the ball too often to outscore a pro club that is...
Jun 27, 2004
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Times Staff Writer
Perhaps you've been watching "Deadwood," the HBO series. Well, this town of 1,300 in the Black Hills is the genuine thing, where the real Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane hung out.
Basking in its new celebrity — and with the series (filmed in...
Oct 17, 2000
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Jeff Garcia of San Francisco, the NFL's most improved quarterback, will take the NFC's second highest scoring team into Carolina Sunday.
As a scoring machine, no team can match the St. Louis Rams, of course, but Garcia has the 49ers averaging in excess...
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