Word: quarterbacked
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...began his college career in 1973: "Reggie Bush is as good a running back as I've ever seen." And Brown will see him again soon. On Jan. 4, U.S.C. will take its gaudy 34-game winning streak into the Rose Bowl against undefeated Texas, which features sensational scrambling quarterback Vince Young, the Heisman runner...
...time when his former teammate, Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, has emerged as arguably the National Football League’s biggest story, junior running back Clifton Dawson has begun to assess the prospects of joining his former quarterback on the sport’s biggest stage.Harvard coach Tim Murphy said that he and Dawson have discussed the process of wooing potential NFL suitors, and that the two of them will follow the same approach that got Fitzpatrick noticed following his junior season at Harvard. The two of them will likely put together a highlight reel of Dawson?...
...Reliant Stadium, they weren’t actually expecting to see him play. “They thought it would be cool to see me on the sideline,” said the current biggest storyline in professional football, formerly known as the Crimson’s star quarterback. Instead, his roommates, the Rams, the Texans, and a national television audience were treated to a vintage Fitzpatrick performance. After replacing injured starter Jamie Martin in the second quarter, Fitzpatrick threw for 310 yards and three touchdowns, rallying the Rams from a 21-point deficit to a 33-27 overtime...
...pass to Kevin Curtis in overtime. Fitzpatrick ended the day with a gaudy 310 passing yards, three touchdowns, and a passer rating of 117.4. To put Fitzpatrick’s performance in perspective, recall that Eli Manning—the first overall pick in 2004 and now the starting quarterback for the Giants—only has two career 300-plus yard passing games in his career. And that during his senior year for the Crimson in 2004, Fitzpatrick only managed one game in which he threw for more yards than he did on Sunday. In an interview on ESPN...
Since he's in his first full season as quarterback, Eli will get a pass if the Giants falter. But the pressure is clearly on Peyton. Although he has thrown for 4,000 yds. in each of the past six seasons, tossed 49 touchdown passes last year--breaking Dan Marino's 1984 record--and twice won the NFL's MVP award, the critics chirp that he has never made it to the Super Bowl. "Peyton feels the weight on his shoulders," says John Michael Vincent, an Indianapolis sports-radio host. "There's going to be a lot of disappointment...