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...remember how, back in school, some kids got geometry?" Madden asks. "You worked at it, worked at it, worked at it, BOOM! You finally got it! And if you got geometry, you remember how then you went on to trigonometry...
...going to sound as if the great football prophet John Madden is talking about mathematics, but he isn't. He is talking about a subject of far greater interest to the American public--why so many quarterbacks, including a couple of hotshot college studs whose rookie National Football League contracts add up to roughly $75 million, look like your grandmother out there...
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...
...There's no way any rookie quarterback can have a clue," agrees Madden. Charlie Batch, an unheralded Detroit Lions rookie, has at times looked better than Manning or Leaf, but he's still working in the dark too. Madden says it's partly because college defenses are run oriented and NFL defenses, which are pass oriented, change drastically from one down to the next and one team to the next...
...have a Nintendo 64 console, Madden is your best choice. Its 3-D graphics are not as vivid and sharp as those of Quarterback Club, but the game play seems to be more challenging. (Note: I saw only a demo of QC '99; I did not get to play it extensively.) On the Sony PlayStation I'd go with GameDay for its superior graphics and game play. Likewise, for a PC, GameDay is tops; if you buy the software, you can play the game free against others on the Net at www.989sports.com...