Elvis Grbac

How to Beat the Rams

2000-10-24 00:00:00

In most of their first-down plays the other day, the Kansas City Chiefs, a famous running team, threw passes instead. And that's how they ran up that 54-34 score on the St. Louis Rams, who had won their first six games with the same plan: consistent...

A New Scoring Machine

2000-11-07 00:00:00

The proposition that the Oakland Raiders are finally a Super Bowl team again this season will be tested, for perhaps the last time, in the game of the week Monday night at Denver. If the Raiders win that one, their bright future will be more fact than...

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...

18 Excellent NFL Teams Fighting for First Place

1999-11-08 00:00:00

Among the 18 or 20 NFL teams at or near the top of a 31-team league after the first half of the season, there is a balance of either mutual mediocrity or mutual excellence. If you agree with me, it's a balance of excellence. Pro football players all...

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...

Why is Baltimore standing by while the Ravens turn into the Florida Marlins of football?

2013-03-20 07:04:00

What is wrong with this town? I know there are tons of people out there in Baltimore who are as angry at what just happened to our Super Bowl team as I am, but where is their voice? The word "fan" is short for "fanatic." Where are the fanatics who...

Brian Billick thinks the reshuffling Ravens will be OK

2013-03-15 07:45:00

Brian Billick was coach of the Ravens the last time the team had a chance to repeat as Super Bowl champions, so I was interested to hear his thoughts on what the Ravens are doing the second time around. In 2001, a season after they beat the New York...

For What It's Worth: February 28th

2013-02-28 04:43:00

For What it’s Worth---February 28 -- They filed out in silence, not sure of what they’d just seen, but positive that they didn’t want to see it anymore. What a difference three days makes--- Wichita State went from 94 points scored...

The Sun remembers: Feb. 24-March 2

2013-02-24 12:15:00

March 1, 2002: The Ravens release Elvis Grbac, the expensive but mistake-prone quarterback they wooed last year instead of re-signing Trent Dilfer, who'd helped them win the Super Bowl. Grbac committed 26 turnovers in a 10-6 season as the Ravens lost in...

Cutler should expect many teaching moments

2013-02-16 13:49:00

In the event Marc Trestman and Jay Cutler do not always speak the same language, the Bears have hired a translator. We can be assured Matt Cavanaugh can converse in Trestmanish as well as Cutlerese. What's more, he presumably understands whatever sign...

Flacco begins collecting awards as Super Bowl MVP

2013-02-04 21:09:00

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Working on 90 minutes of sleep, Joe Flacco wore a day-old beard and a weary smile that wouldn't go away. � Super Bowl tradition deems that the game's MVP appear at a ceremony the following morning to shake hands with the...

The Sun remembers: Jan. 20-26

2013-01-20 11:28:00

Jan. 23, 2004: P.J. Wakefield's goal in overtime gives the surging Blast its seventh straight victory, 5-4 over the Monterrey Fury at 1st Mariner Arena. It's the 16th win in 21 games for Baltimore, which will win the Major Indoor Soccer League...

Ravens coach Brian Billick talks to quarterback Elvis Grbac during a playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2002.

2013-02-24 12:15:00

That's what the Ravens did the last time they won the Super Bowl, paying to keep popular but overpriced veterans such as Shannon Sharpe, Rod Woodson, Sam Adams, and Tony Siragusa on their roster in 2001 and also splurging on free-agent quarterback Elvis Grbac.

2013-01-25 00:00:00

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Ravens QB Elvis Grbac is sacked by Steelers linebacker Mike Jones during a playoff game at Heinz Field on Jan. 20, 2002.

2013-01-20 11:28:00