Word: maddens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...Madden says the long learning curve explains why so many grayhairs who should be regaling bowling buddies with stories about the good old days are still putting on helmets. The league will have three quarterbacks in their 40s as of next week, when Tennessee backup Dave Krieg enters middle age. Seattle Seahawks starter Warren Moon is 41, and Atlanta Falcons backup Steve DeBerg, at 44, is the age of Manning and Leaf combined. Oakland Raider backup Wade Wilson is 39; Denver Bronco John Elway, 38; and Minnesota's Randall Cunningham, 35, came out of retirement two years ago and threw...
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...
...learning from the bench, Madden says it's a moot point with Manning and Leaf because their teams don't have better quarterbacks. For better or worse, they are the future of each franchise, and both Madden and Bradshaw say that although Leaf can throw the football to Hawaii, Manning is further along in geometry class. He's the son of Archie Manning, a heck of a quarterback who played for the Saints when they were called the Aints and fans wore bags over their heads, so Junior might have inherited some poise, a quality everyone is very...