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When it's OK to go old-school

By Tim Keown
Page 2

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

In only two short weeks, the Oakland Raiders have created a new kind of bad. It's a remarkable bad, a potentially 0-16 bad, a bad so new it's actually old. See, there was a time when this stuff worked. There was a time when a quarterback could take a seven-step drop and wait (and wait) for a receiver to get open. This tactic stopped working about the time coverage linebackers such as Jack Ham morphed into blitzing, head-seeking missiles such as Lawrence Taylor. There was a time when enormous o ...

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