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Same deal with learning to read defenses, says Madden, the TV commentator and ex-coach. The NFL's constantly evolving defenses are tougher to decipher than tax forms, and the consensus in jockdom is that quarterbacking is the hardest thing to do in all of sports, right after remembering where you left the needle to inflate the balls. "I'd say 90% of the quarterbacks never get it," Madden says...
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...
...Free agency has made it a different world," Colts president Bill Polian said, adding that people foolishly expect big contracts to translate into instant success. Polian was delighted by the wisdom of a comment made by ex-quarterback Phil Simms about the chatter over who's better, Manning or Leaf. "Phil said neither one has a clue...
...groundbreaking movie (it's not), but because it succeeds so refreshingly and so endearingly despite its unoriginal premise. Where other movies would be cranking up bathosfilled love songs, Next Stop Wonderland plays toe-tapping Brazilian music. When other actresses would be weeping over a picture of their ex, our heroine contemplatively stares out at the ocean or reads her late father's poetry. Fate may bring the happy couple together under its wing, but we get the feeling that they would be okay even if they never met. As the Wonderland promo posters say, "Love is the destination...
...film with such a unanimously powerful opening and an attention to history that is emotionally edifying and alive. Still, the connecting material by which Robert Rodat's script moves from the opening battle sequence to the last is less than wholly compelling, and the framing device of the ex-soldier in the cemetery is maudlin and cumbersome. But Spielberg hasn't gotten an ending right in at least ten years. Disputation seems insolent in the case of this film. --Nicholas K. Davis...