Word: elway
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...sentence. "Before the college draft, everybody in the league calls up everybody else and lies to each other about which players we all like." As for the 1983 class, Miami agreed with the rest that the clear prize among five or six significant quarterback prospects was Stanford's John Elway, who broke in harshly last season at Denver but enjoyed a mortal's measure of success this year. Elway aside, Shula sensed he was legitimately alone in his admiration for the famed junior star at Pitt who had fallen on more than mean times as a senior...
...high school and college in my own district. Be the starting quarterback. Have a chance at a national championship. I thought it would be a lot of fun to do that--and it was. You're not always going to be successful, but everything's worked out great." Quarterbacks Elway, Todd Blackledge (Kansas City), Jim Kelly (Buffalo), Tony Eason (New England) and Ken O'Brien (New York Jets) all preceded Marino in the opening round, when San Diego passed him three times. Dolphin Personnel Man Charley Winner remembers that come the 27th pick, "Don didn't even turn...
...bright course again and did not plan to draft a quarterback. But, because of his senior slump, and the seamy rumors that have become football's automatic ex planation for any irregularities, Marino was still bobbing in the pool after five quarterbacks had been fished out: John Elway, Todd Blackledge, Jim Kelly, Tony Eason and Ken O'Brien. To Shula, it was an irresistible 27th pick. "Some people were saying that Dan had been 'pushing' the ball instead of throwing it, but all I could see was how quickly...
...Heisman winner was Jim Plunkett of San Jose, Calif, and Stanford, a blind news-vendor's son, quiet-spoken but strong-armed, as husky as a linebacker. In today's terms, he was not only John Elway, the top draft choice, but also Dan Marino, the rookie of the year. The Heisman runner-up or, the way he looked at it, the "loser," was Joe Theismann of South River, N.J., and Notre Dame, a mouthy wraith. He still says, "The classic line of the No. 2 guy is that it was enough just to be considered. That...
...Like Elway in Denver, Plunkett was thrown instantly into the fire with the New England Patriots, but it was slow burning. "I'd have gone crazy if I didn't play right off," he says, "and it went well the first year. I quarterbacked with reckless abandon, ran a lot, scrambled around, threw on the run. But we just didn't get any better as a club. The second year was miserable. I had never been on a losing team in my life, or experienced such negativism all around me." In the dreary seasons following, Plunkett suffered...