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...special strengths when he drafted Joe in the third round of 1979. Montana's reputation as a hot-and-cold player intrigued Walsh: "If he can have one hot game, why not two, why not three?" This man knows something about quarterbacks. As an assistant in Cincinnati and San Diego, he once took the rawest rookie and fashioned Anderson, and later found a floundering failure and made Dan Fouts. When he got his first N.F.L. coaching job three years ago, it was overdue...
...last week's subzero winds at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium, San Diego Quarterback Dan Fouts looked like a man trying to throw a nerf ball in mid-hurricane. The passes of the winning quarterback, Cincinnati's Kenny Anderson, were somehow strong and true. Said Bengal Linebacker Reggie Williams: "He has the mental toughness to be able to control the ball under those conditions. Fouts was not able to do that." Anderson put it differently, in his normal self-deflating prose: "I threw a lot of flutter balls and some end-over-enders. We were going to throw...
...going to compliment Ken Anderson and get away with it. Anderson, 32, hailed last week by a florid Cincinnati sportswriter as "Jack Armstrong come to life in a football uniform," is the classic aw-shucks hero, resolutely unquotable, eager to point out that he is merely one cog in the great Bengal machine. That machine indeed has some brilliant parts, finely tuned by its no-nonsense coach, Forrest Gregg. One All-Pro wide receiver, Veteran Isaac Curtis, has been joined by another, exuberant Rookie Cris Collinsworth. Pete Johnson, a.k.a. the human bowling ball, is a hard-hitting, if not overwhelming...
...career devoted to self-effacement, and conducted in Cincinnati, naturally leads to the question, Who is Ken Anderson? All football fans remember that he comes from an unlikely Lutheran institution in Rock Island, Ill., "little-known Augustana College" (in footballese, adjective and noun are welded together, as in "wartorn Middle East"). Also little known is the general opinion that if N.F.L. computers were programmed to construct the ideal quarterback, they would spit out Kenny Anderson. He is strong, quick (4.8 sec. over 40 yds.), with outstanding peripheral vision and, at 6 ft. 3 in., tall enough to throw over...
Anderson grew up in Batavia, Ill., the son of a janitor. Even little-known Augustana did not want him as a football player: he was a basketball recruit, and wrote a letter asking to play football. Cincinnati drafted him in the third round in 1971, and he was developed into a pro quarterback by none other than Bill Walsh, then the Bengals' offensive coach...