SUNDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS : HERO.Steve Beuerlein Stephen Taylor Beuerlein (born March 7, 1965 in Los Angeles, California) is a former football quarterback who during his NFL career played for the Los Angeles Raiders (1988-89), Dallas Cowboys (1991-92), Phoenix Cardinals & Arizona Cardinals (1993-94), Jacksonville Jaguars (1995), , Carolina: When the QB was with the Raiders in Los Angeles, owner Al Davis considered him inferior to Jay Schroeder, Vince Evans and Todd Marinovich, but Beuerlein has since demonstrated that he is one of the finest backup quarterbacks in the league. Playing for injured Kerry Collins against San Francisco, he completed 17 of 20 passes as the Panthers built a 17-0 lead against the league's No. 1-ranked defense. Beuerlein, who threw a pair of scoring passes to Wesley Walls, finished with 290 yards on 22-of-31 accuracy. GOAT Barry Switzer, Dallas: After Buffalo lost 24-6 to Pittsburgh last Monday night, then lost quarterback Jim Kelly to a hamstring injury hamstring injury Sports medicine A muscle injury of biceps femoris, seen in sprinters and runners, when a contracted muscle meets a lengthening force, overpowering intrinsic muscle resiliency Management RICE, NSAIDs, gradual ↑ of pain-free activity–eg, during a midweek practice, the Cowboys were ripe for overconfidence o·ver·con·fi·dent adj. Excessively confident; presumptuous. o  ver·con as they ventured into Buffalo. Switzer, whose job it is to prepare the team he coaches, obviously didn't do near enough to avert this. The Cowboys, facing the dubious quarterback duo of Todd Collins and Alex Van Pelt Gregory Alexander Van Pelt (born May 1, 1970 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a former American football quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. He was a star college quarterback at the University of Pittsburgh, but was a career backup in the NFL, where he had career totals of 16 , went meekly in a 10-7 loss. TOP 5 RUSHERS Player, Team Opponent Yards LeShon Johnson, Arizona New Orleans 214 Terrell Davis, Denver Kansas City 141 Ricky Watters, Philadelphia Atlanta 121 Napoleon Kaufman, Oakland San Diego 116 Curtis Martin, New England Jacksonville 95 TOP 5 PASSERS Player, Team Opponent Yards Mark Brunell, Jacksonville New England 432 Scott Mitchell, Detroit Chicago 336 Jeff Hostetler, Oakland San Diego 293 Steve Beuerlein, Carolina San Francisco 290 Warren Moon, Minnesota Green Bay 280 TOP5 RECEIVERS Player, Team Opponent Yards Johnnie Morton, Detroit Chicago 174 Tony Martin, San Diego Oakland 138 Isaac Bruce, St. Louis Washington 136 Shannon Sharpe, Denver Kansas City 131 Jake Reed, Minnesota Green Bay 129 NOTEWORTHY Another milestone: Marcus Allen bulled into the end zone from 2 yards out for Kansas City's decisive touchdown in a come-from-behind win over Denver. It was the 106th rushing TD of his career, which tied him with Jim Brown for second place on the NFL's all-time list. Allen is just four behind the leader, Walter Payton. Numbers game: The St. Louis Rams OFFBEAT off·beat n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure. adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor. Flub (language) FLUB - The abstract machine for bootstrapping STAGE2. [Mentioned in Machine Oriented Higher Level Languages, W. van der Poel, N-H 1974, p. 271]. Central: The meeting of the Giants and Jets at the Meadowlands, above, figured to be a comedy of errors, but the goofs began to occur even earlier than expected. Before the opening kickoff, Tom Humbert, the singer of the national anthem, botched botch tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es 1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily. n. 1. the words. Thus, with the tone set: Giants linebacker Jessie Armstead tripped while returning an interception deep in Jets territory and lost a fumble; a fumble by the Giants' Rodney Hampton early in the third quarter set up a Jets field goal; Wayne Chrebet of the Jets muffed a punt to set up a Giants field goal; and don't forget Scott Gragg, a 325-pound Giants offensive tackle, who fell while attempting a celebratory cartwheel after his team's only touchdown. Anxious moment: When Jacksonville attempted a Hail Mary in the closing seconds of regulation, New England's Willie McGinest, the 6-foot-5 linebacker out of USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. , was positioned on the goal line to bust it up. He batted the ball down, but it landed in the arms of Willie Jackson, who wriggled to within a few inches of the goal line before being stopped. That sent the game into overtime, and the Patriots prevailed with a field goal. Afterward, McGinest shook his head and said: ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how they came up with that one. I thought I knocked it down, but they were like little snakes sliding under me. They must have had four-leaf clovers in their pants.'' TONIGHT Blinking in the glare: Jimmy Johnson of the Miami Dolphins is accustomed to the spotlight, since his flamboyance seems to command it wherever he goes. Not so the Indianapolis Colts, who play host to the Dolphins with the usual Monday night millions looking in on TV (6 p.m., Channel 7). Said Indianapolis defensive lineman Tony Siragusa: ``It's weird seeing the Colts get national publicity. I was in the restaurant watching national TV (last Monday night), and all of a sudden, Jim Harbaugh pops up (in a halftime interview).'' The Colts, a big surprise in reaching the AFC (1) (Application Foundation Classes) A class library from Microsoft that provides an application framework and graphics, graphical user interface (GUI) and multimedia routines for Java programmers. title game last season, have opened with three straight victories for the first time since 1977. Miami is also 3-0, creating an early season showdown for supremacy in the AFC East. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: No Caption (Jets football Fan) |
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