Word: quarterback
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...Robert Smith, and had as good a chance as any other team to get to the next Super Bowl. Just adjust the dials a bit, right? Not by Green's logic. He went for a thorough overhaul. Dispense with the veteran leadership of Jeff George and Randall Cunningham at quarterback, and give the ball to a second-year guy who had never thrown a pass in the NFL. Brass does not do Green justice...
Culpepper is revolutionizing the quarterback position with his simple being. He is huge. Capital letters HUGE--6-ft. 4-in. huge. Two hundred and sixty pounds huge. He flattens defenders, stiff-arms tacklers and dwarfs his own offensive linemen in the huddle. He makes kickers look like hors d'oeuvres. Some historical perspective? Culpepper has the exact physical measurements of Deacon Jones, the Hall of Fame defensive lineman who terrorized puny quarterbacks with his speed and size. Culpepper could settle that score...
Culpepper can heave a football 80 yds., run a 40-yd. dash in a halfback-like 4.42 sec. and jump 36 in. from a standing start. Even more impressive, according to Tarkenton, the last great Vikings quarterback, is Culpepper's poise. "A QB can have skills and he can run, but he's got to be able to make plays," says Tarkenton. "What this young man does is make plays for his football team." As in Culpepper's first-ever start, when, realizing that the Chicago Bears were lying back and waiting for him to make passing mistakes, Culpepper tucked...
...example, in 1999 Penn quarterback Gavin Hoffman completed a Hail Mary pass at the buzzer after his foot appeared to cross the line of scrimmage. That can only be chalked up to pure luck. However, when Hoffman pulled the trick again this year--erasing a five-point deficit with just three minutes to go--things become more suspicious...
...shouldn't have ended this way for Neil Rose. The junior quarterback was hailed as a savior when he revitalized the offense and led the team to untold productivity. He set records in almost every significant category and will be remembered as one of Harvard's finest passers. And yet, sadly, Rose valiantly deteriorated yesterday before his fellow students, admiring supporters and more importantly, his family, who had flown in from Hawaii...