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...Dennis Green and Wade Phillips are to be believed, in the next few weeks they'll bench Randall Cunningham and Doug Flutie, combined record 8-0, in favor of Brad and Rob Johnson...
Offensively, Princeton is led by three juniors: co-captain Chad Adams, forward Justin Kerr and midfielder Griff Behncke. Adams has been labeled a very hard worker, perhaps because he has fought his way off the bench to become co-captain...
Kerr, also a former bench jockey, earned a starting role midway into last season and went on to lead the Tigers with 14 points. The 6'2", 175-pound Behncke, who splits time between defense and midfield, earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors for the week...
During the game, ex-Super Bowl quarterback Ron Jaworski said that's the NFL today. "You pay these guys, and you throw them out there" whether they're ready or not. Back in the days before remote control, promising young quarterbacks sat on the bench for a while, and went to school on the crew-cut masters...
...learning from the bench, Madden says it's a moot point with Manning and Leaf because their teams don't have better quarterbacks. For better or worse, they are the future of each franchise, and both Madden and Bradshaw say that although Leaf can throw the football to Hawaii, Manning is further along in geometry class. He's the son of Archie Manning, a heck of a quarterback who played for the Saints when they were called the Aints and fans wore bags over their heads, so Junior might have inherited some poise, a quality everyone is very...