Word: quarterbacked
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...players get set with 5:21 left in the game. Alabama is down 28 to 17, and driving. They have the ball on their own 37-yard-line. It is second down, four yards to go. Quarterback John Parker Wilson stands poised in the shotgun formation. Three receivers are stacked on his right, one on his left. All hope for a Crimson Tide victory rests on a score in this drive...
...structure and a draft that gives the worst teams access to the best young talent in a young man's game, create leaguewide parity - going winless is awfully hard to do. "It's mind-boggling to me," says Troy Aikman, the Fox Sports analyst and Hall of Fame ex-quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, who lived through a nightmarish 1-15 season himself as a rookie back in 1989. Several teams have managed to put together only one victory in a season, including the 2007 Miami Dolphins and the 2000 San Diego Chargers. But failing...
...years of failed draft picks to dig Detroit into its current hole. Although every armchair football aficionado knows that defensive- and offensive-line play wins championships (or at least a game or two), Millen repeatedly spent top draft choices on low-impact wide receivers, despite not having a good quarterback to throw them the ball. The low point: in 2003 Millen used the second overall pick on Michigan State wideout Charles Rogers, who was recently sentenced to nine months of drug counseling following an assault-and-battery arrest involving his fiancée. Among the top players Millen passed over...
...have a page long enough to list all their problems," says former New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms, who had the great pleasure of analyzing the Tennessee-Detroit game on Thanksgiving for CBS. "Their free-agent signings have been flawed, their drafts have been flawed, the organizational philosophy is flawed. As a coach said to me, 'Wow, they're small, they're not fast, and they're old.' It's unbelievable...
...they could steal a page out of Steve Spurrier's playbook and laugh about their dubious place in history. Spurrier, the head coach at the University of South Carolina, who won a national title at Florida and also coached the Washington Redskins from 2002 through 2003, was the quarterback on that winless '76 Buccaneers team. He's a bit more lighthearted about the whole experience and enjoys being remembered for something...