Word: quarterbacks
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...headset, congratulating or chastising a player, wearing a sociopath's stern face as he silently prays he'll be baptized by a tub of Gatorade in the final minute of a winning game. The coach is a chess demon, planning dozens of gambits that depend on whether his quarterback throws for a big gain or gets sacked. He is a video-game whiz kid, and the playing field is his Grand Theft Auto Vice City. He is a field marshal and, sometimes, a counselor--General Patton and Dr. Phil. The quarterback may be the glamour boy, but the coach...
...knew hunger when he came to Carolina. "Losing 15 games in a row, everybody had scars. They were ashamed and embarrassed, and willing to do anything to prevent that happening again." Fox mixed paternal goodwill with a physical (read: brutal) defensive strategy and made no-names like quarterback Jake Delhomme and wide receiver Steve Smith into overachievers. "He's not a rah-rah guy," says ABC commentator and Super Bowl coach John Madden, "but he's a lot more rah-rah than Belichick. He's in the middle of the rah-rah scale...
...familiar for legions of middle managers across this great land for whom meetings have ritual significance (in the sense that they represent something you have to do that produces no discernible results). During these meetings the CEO - the coach - delivers his instructions to his chief operating officer - the quarterback - who is expected to deliver quarterly results. A football quarter is calculated in minutes rather than days, or course; it only seems as though each period takes months...
...disorder that distorts normal sleep patterns and sparks fatigue. Surgery corrected his condition, and the 6-foot-4, 335 pound Jenkins has been awake ever since, making two straight All-Pro teams. Several NFL general managers have named him the best lineman in the game, and ex-Cincinnati Bengals quarterback and CBS commentator Boomer Esiason simply calls Jenkins a ?freak.? Some peers go even further. ?Kris Jenkins is the dominant force in football,? says fellow Panther tackle Brentson Buckner...
HIGH HOPES: With one of the league's rising stars, quarterback Michael Vick, the Falcons won a play-off game last year and looked like comers...