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Lucky Ones

By Alan Grant
Special to Page 2

Friday, January 20, 2006

In the summer of '99, at Arizona Cardinals training camp, Jake Plummer went five steps deep into the pocket, looked at the post and threw a duck. Downfield, the ball descending toward them, two defenders converged on the intended receiver, both of them in line for the easy pick. But when all three men collided, the ball fell harmlessly to the turf. It's better to be lucky than good. Of course, in a perfect world, it would be splendid to harness both qualities. But it's not a perfect world. S ...

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