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Since they are unlikely to find much outside running room against Green Bay's rugged corner linebackers, Dave Robinson and Lee Roy Caffey, the Raiders are expected to concentrate on trap plays up the middle-hoping to catch the Packers' hard-charging defensive linemen out of position. Key man in the success or failure of Oakland's running game is Gene Upshaw, a 6-ft. 5-in., 255-lb. rookie from Texas A. & I. who is already regarded as one of the best running guards in pro ball...
...that the Raiders can't pass. With 220 completions in 425 attempts, Quarterback Daryle Lamonica is the A.F.L.'s No. 1 passer and its Player of the Year. Lamonica can throw the ball even farther than Green Bay's Starr, but against the Packers' superb secondary, he probably will settle for short "swings," "look-ins" and "square-outs" to Fullback Dixon, Flanker Pete Biletnikoff and Tight End Billy Cannon, a converted halfback who is a threat to go all the way any time...
Jimmy the Conservative. Green Bay's great advantage over Oakland is on defense. The Packer "front four," led by All-Pro End Willie Davis, is one of the strongest in history-although the Raiders boast some fearsome pass rushers of their own, notably Tackle Tom Keating, a 247-pounder who runs 40 yds. in 5.3 sec. in his football gear. Therein lies a certain danger. Confident of this rush, Oakland's cocky cornerbacks have developed the habit of playing opposing pass receivers extremely tight to cut off the short pass, assuming that there...
Sunday afternoon in Miami, Fla., the most overrated team in professional football will meet the most underrated. Vince Lombardi, Tex Maule, Frank Gifford, Gale Gillingham and other Green Bay Packer types will receive a comeuppance: if the Oakland Raiders don't give the AFL its first Super Bowl victory, they will come damn close...
...best example of the Packer mystique that blurs objective analysis just as the Yankee pinstripes used to do is fullback Chuck Mercein. Since he started for Green Bay in its playoffs, no one has mentioned that he is the worst fullback in either the NFL or the AFL. The glory days of Taylor and Hornung have blinded people to the fact that Anderson plus Mercein is not a running attack...