Trent Green

Running Backs Rule, With Few Exceptions

2005-08-28 16:36:00

Once upon a time, there was the Marshall (Faulk) Plan. Today, the L.T. Strategy would be a more appropriate name. Whatever you call it, the philosophy is the same: You can never go wrong drafting running backs with your first two picks. Well, that's...

Palmer Carries Bengals

2005-11-01 11:43:00

OATES ON FOOTBALL _ _ _ Colts Going for 19-0 _ _ _ o NFL Week 9: Manning's Team Better Than Old 17-0 Dolphins . . . Eagle Error: Owens Plays Hard . . . Bears Bore, Win . . Chiefs Not Tough Enough. _ _ _ By Bob Oates Latimes.com _ _ _ The...

Weis Blew It

2005-10-19 00:00:00

When onetime NFL coaches Pete Carroll of USC and Charlie Weis of Notre Dame were cranking up last week for the football game of the year — college or pro — Weis apparently confided to at least three newspaper reporters: "I own Pete Carroll."...

The Perfect Draft

2005-08-19 11:00:00

Unless you play in a league of Tibetan monks or with people whose surnames are Hilton, you aren't likely to assemble a dream team of Peyton Manning, LaDainian Tomlinson, Priest Holmes, Randy Moss and Antonio Gates in your fantasy draft. The most you can...

The Belichick and Brady Show

2005-09-06 11:39:00

With Bill Belichick in charge and with Tom Brady continuing as the NFL's most competent quarterback, the New England Patriots are again the best team in football as another five-month race to the Super Bowl begins this week. There are, altogether, only...

Mood swings are part of the game

2005-12-05 18:01:00

All across this great land of ours, there are three kinds of people today: the winners, the losers and those waiting in line for their label. You can spot the winners in the office. They're the ones walking with that extra swagger. They make direct eye...

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-...

Surprising Showdowns

2002-10-01 00:00:00

Astonishing everyone who has been asleep for a month, the NFL's two big games Sunday will involve three of the four teams from the AFL's old Western Division that were not considered preseason Super Bowl favorites. The Game of the Week looks like it...

24 Top Passers

2003-10-15 00:00:00

With a quarterback named Jake Delhomme, the unbeaten Carolina Panthers (5-0) will entertain a preseason Super Bowl favorite next Sunday, the Tennessee Titans (4-2), whose passer, Steve McNair, proved again in NFL Week 6 that he's an all-pro candidate....

Manning Wears 'Em Out

2003-10-08 00:00:00

A good, sound, up-to-date NFL team is one that rotates two defensive lines, reasoning that it has a better chance to win with eight fresh pass rushers than four tiring All-Pros. Indianapolis quarterback Peyton Manning taught that lesson to the Tampa...

Broncos on Move

2003-12-10 00:00:00

Here come the Broncos. Revived by quarterback Jake Plummer's return from injury, Coach Mike Shanahan's Denver team can take another giant step toward the playoffs next Sunday against Cleveland at Denver, where Bronco tailback Clinton Portis scored last...

Patriots Great Because...

2004-10-06 00:00:00

The New England Patriots, still strangely underrated despite their successes and still short of great players, are approaching greatness as a team this year only because of the unique talents of two football men, their coach, Bill Belichick, and...

Former Kansas City Chiefs/St. Louis Rams QB Trent Green

2012-10-16 13:15:00

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

Alex Brown celebrates a sack of the Rams' Trent Green .

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