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...season's opener against the underdog Buffalo Bills, a team that almost always plays its best against New York, Namath ran a carefully modulated game, passing only 14 times as he set up his running attack. Joe Willie did manage one touchdown strike to Halfback Emerson Boozer as the Jets won, 41-24. Then came the Baltimore Colts -now rivals of the Jets in the Eastern Division of the N.F.L.'s American Conference-who had beaten the Jets four times since the dramatic Super Bowl confrontation. Playing for the first time in Baltimore's cavernous Memorial Stadium...
...said nothing, threw one incomplete pass, then connected for short yardage. But on the next play, he called for Riggins to shoot out of the backfield and blow past Hendricks. Riggins ran his pattern precisely, caught a Namath pass on the run and streaked 67 yds. for a touchdown...
...Colts nonetheless managed to stay within range of the Jets-largely through a stellar passing performance (26 completions for 376 yds. and two touchdowns) by their canny old craftsman Johnny Unitas-until the final quarter. It was then that Namath displayed his instinct for the jugular. First he wound up and heaved a 79-yd. touchdown pass to Tight End Richard Caster. A few minutes later, the Colts scored, narrowing the Jets' margin to three points. When New York got the ball again, Namath called a pass play that could have gone to one of three receivers. Meanwhile...
Great as the veteran pocket passers are, their futures are uncertain. Brodie, 37, whom many pros rate directly behind Namath in passing ability, ranks third in alltime yardage statistics, has had 207 career touchdown passes and was 1970's Player of the Year. He threw a lot of interceptions (24) in 1971, though, and was taken out of the 49ers game with Buffalo this year with an injured wrist. With two touchdown tosses last week against New Orleans, he is still in better shape than Jurgensen, 38, who glowers on the bench (at $125,000 a year) while that...
...When he sticks his head in the huddle, everything he says is gospel." Griese demonstrated his poise in the final quarter against the rugged Minnesota zone defense last week, carefully picking it apart until he found Tight End Jim Mandich all alone in the end zone for the winning touchdown...