Priest Holmes

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...

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."...

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...

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...

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...

The Packer Edge

2002-12-17 00:00:00

The freezing weather that hits Green Bay each winter gives the Packers a playoff advantage so obvious and unfair that it should be changed someday — no later than next year if not next month. As you know, the Packers almost never lose at home...

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...

The One-Back Game

2004-09-15 00:00:00

As of the 2004 NFL season, fullbacks are pass�. One-back football is here. And Clinton Portis will be the back on one of the NFL's new one-back teams, the Washington Redskins, in their attack on the New York Giants Sunday in Giants Stadium. Portis,...

Referees Super

2002-11-19 00:00:00

The point that NFL games have been efficiently officiated again this fall, as usual, is compelling. And I'd say that on the whole it's true. At the same time it is obvious that there have been too many penalty calls this season. Waves of falling flags...

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...

The Ravens had been knocked out of playoff contention the previous week, but this desultory performance hurt because it threw the franchise into a temporary identity crisis. Were the Ravens the team that had won four straight down the stretch behind a developing core of young talent?

2012-10-23 09:06:53

1. Johnson broke the Penn State record for rushing yards in a game three times in 2002. 2. Had 20 carries for 85 yards in 18 career NFL games when, in September of 2004, Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil said that Johnson would need to 'take the diapers off' if he started for a hobbled Priest Holmes.

2011-09-08 15:57:22

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Hit hard Zach Thomas of the Dolphins puts a hit on Kansas City running back Priest Holmes during the first half on Friday at Dolphins Stadium.

2005-10-21 00:00:00