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Slowly, patiently, Vermeil put his team together. Quarterback Ron Jaworski was acquired from the Rams for his strong arm. Running Back Wilbert Montgomery, passed over until the sixth round because of calcium deposits in a thigh, ha emerged as one of the league's flashiest runners. As the team started its comeback, Wide Receiver Harold Carmichael set an N.F.L. record for receptions in 127 straight games, and Kicker Tony Franklin proved that barefoot boys can make it in the N.F.L. The Eagles defense is football's stingiest. In the N.F.C. championship game against the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia held...
...money, the Eagle offense--including Montgomery and quarterback Ron Jaworski--is overrated. But Philly's defense is one of the best-kept secrets in football, especially its linebacking crew...
...ACTION HERBIE'S PICKS: Dallas at Philly. Apparently, Dallas is the one NFC team Herbie was referring to. "That Danny White, he's got an arm on him, all right. And the Cowboy defense is there, just where the Viking defense wasn't." A mumble or two about Ron Jaworski's attitude, and out came the numbers: Dallas...
...Haig stall Jaworski? Cox's successor, Leon Jaworski, portrays Haig as a tough but ethical adversary in the ex-prosecutor's post-Watergate book, The Right and the Power, and now contends that Haig merely "had to do what Nixon told him to do and this is what he did." But former associates of Jaworski recall that his attitude was far different during the investigation. Insists one: "Jaworski used to rant and rave aplenty about Al Haig." When Jaworski threatened to protest publicly the White's House stalling over delivery of tapes, Haig pleaded for more time...
...tapes? Haig's original claims that there had been no tampering with the tapes was, at the least, overzealous. When the Washington Post reported that two of the tapes might have been re-recordings rather than originals, he charged that this was "blasphemous speculation." Later Haig told Jaworski, "I haven't the slightest doubt that the tapes were screwed with...