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...talent available, the Raiders have won with the run, with the pass, with defense and with kicking-especially the punting of Ray Guy, the first kicker ever chosen in the first round of the draft. Oakland has picked up players washed up at other teams, like Quarterback Jim Plunkett, and players other teams had washed their hands of, like Linebacker Ted Hendricks, and they have thrived. Such rehabilitations have embarrassed more than one team. Says Cleveland Coach Sam Rutigliano: "I won't trade with him, and when we shake hands, I check to be sure I still have five...
...Raiders were expected to finish last in the A.F.C. West this season, and after losing three of their first five games, seemed out of the hunt. Then Plunkett, the former Heisman Trophy winner from Stanford who had watched his injury-studded professional career unravel on other teams, stepped in to replace injured Dan Pastorini. The Raiders began to roll. In an amazing late-season rush, they won twelve of 14 games, outscoring the high-powered San Diego Chargers in the A.F.C. championship game...
This is the Super Bowl of the unsung. Of unsung Jim Plunkett, who arrived in Oakland with hardly a hope of getting into a game, then suddenly was thrust into a starting role and guided his Raiders to a wild-card playoff berth, past Houston, Cleveland and San Diego...
...Plunkett and the Raiders have Mark Van Eeghen and Kenny King in the backfield, two steady runners to complement an explosive passing game which includes Raymond Chester, Bob Chandler (Fred Biletnikoff incarnate) and Cliff Branch...
...commented that until a few months ago, everyone thought Jim Plunkett was washed up, too. "Yeah," he said, "but they was wrong...