Brian Griese

First Week Was Full of Surprises

2005-09-12 15:58:00

Now that the first week of the 2005 NFL season is in the books, we finally have some clarity on several important issues: � The Dolphins and 49ers are the class of the league. Their fans might as well start making reservations for Super Bowl XL in...

These Bears Can Fly

2006-09-19 12:15:00

Here come the Chicago Bears. Impressive runaway winners of their first two games -- each a division game -- the Bears will be on their way to a second consecutive NFC North championship if they can defeat a third straight division opponent Sunday in...

Game of Emotion

2001-10-09 00:00:00

At Indianapolis next Sunday, in the AFC night game of the year, the Oakland Raiders aren't likely to be bothered by the same thing that troubled them against Dallas last Sunday, when they couldn't take an 0-4 team seriously. They weren't up for the...

Injury Luck

2000-11-21 00:00:00

One of the season's surprise success-story teams, the NFL's New Orleans Saints, will line up in St. Louis Sunday without the two Saints who did the most to turn things around this fall in the Superdome. They are Jeff Blake, the quarterback who broke a...

Great Coaching

2000-11-28 00:00:00

Coaching seems to be the decisive variable in the development of a successful football team, although, in New Orleans as well as in Philadelphia on Sunday, that might not be apparent. One game doesn't make a career. The odds are that Jim Haslett of...

Titans Again

2000-12-19 00:00:00

The Dallas Cowboys will make football history of a kind Monday night when they become the first NFL team to play regular-season games on both Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day the same year. In a Nashville stadium, simultaneously, the Tennessee Titans...

Warner's Teammates Outplay Garcia's

1999-10-11 00:00:00

Even though Kurt Warner threw five touchdown passes for St. Louis--five more than Jeff Garcia threw for San Francisco--the NFL's hottest pair of new quarterbacks seemed reasonably similar in football ability Sunday as the Rams outscored the 49ers in St....

Chargers Charge Gaps All the Way to the Top

1999-10-18 00:00:00

The San Diego football team has seized first place in the AFC West this year with carefully coached, uniquely aggressive defensive men who attack not the players in the offensive line but the gaps between those players. Up and down the line, as the...

This is How Jeff George Did It

1999-10-25 00:00:00

Jeff George, the passer who revived the Minnesota Vikings Sunday and repulsed the San Francisco 49ers, 40-16, has always had the arm to do just that. He is the living example of the truth that it takes more than a great arm to make a great quarterback....

Rams Do It Their Way

1999-12-27 00:00:00

NFL defenses have become so complex this season that you can't possibly outguess them. So the St. Louis Rams say. So, they don't even try. They don't even think about it. "Our quarterback never calls an audible," Mike Martz, the club's offensive...

How to Win

2003-10-29 00:00:00

The only certain way to win NFL games in this century is to blend a talented passer with a talented running back and a strong defensive force. At San Francisco next Sunday in a Week 9 revival of an old rivalry, the Rams plan to hold first place in the NFC...

Brady Bombs Broncos

2003-11-05 00:00:00

Denver Coach Mike Shanahan, carefully directing a third-string quarterback, Danny Kanell, guided the Broncos to the one-point lead they carried into the last half minute Monday night at Mile High Stadium. Then New England Coach Bill Belichick's first-...

The Super-Bowl-bound Bears suffered just their third defeat of the season on an excruciatingly cold New Year's Eve, when Rex Grossman and Brian Griese combined to go 7-for-27 with five interceptions. Oh, Rexy. --Adam Lukach

2012-09-11 14:15:12

Revolving QBs Here is the well-documented list of starting quarterbacks since Dan Marino: Jay Fiedler, Ray Lucas, Damon Huard, Sage Rosenfels, Brian Griese, A.J.

2012-07-18 00:00:00

Former quarterback Brian Griese greets Lance Briggs before the Bears played the Broncos at Mile High Stadium.

2011-12-11 00:00:00