Thursday, August 21, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section B·Page 7
Westbrook faces suspension
The Associated Press
ASHBURN, Va. — So far, Washington Redskins receiver Michael Westbrook has been told only that he will miss today's exhibition game against Miami as punishment for punching teammate Stephen Davis at practice.
Worse penalties await him.
"We are treating this as a very serious matter," coach Norv Turner said yesterday. "Mike is going to be disciplined."
Turner would not say whether Westbrook would be suspended.
fined or both, but did say he expected the team's 1995 No. 1 draft pick, chosen fourth overall, to be back with the team in time for the season opener Aug. 31 at Carolina.
Tuesday's attack left Davis face down and bleeding, but Turner said the second-year running back did not sustain any injuries that would delay his rehabilitation from a knee injury.
sure it never
happens
again."
"I talked with Stephen ... in terms that I'm going to handle it," Turner said. "It was wrong what happened. We just have to make
Westbrook's actions were condemned by several players, including quarterback Gus Frerotte.
"Was that a fight?" Frerotte said.
"It was one guy hitting another ..."
It makes no sense.
It appears the one-sided fight set back Westbrook's bid to win a starting job. Turner said he had planned to use the Dolphins game
to evaluate the receiver position.
"Obviously if you are competing for a position and one guy's there playing and one guy isn't, then the guy who's playing has an advantage," Turner said.
The coach said he was concerned that Tuesday's brawl might cause a split in the team so close to the start of the regular season, but that he had confidence in the team's veteran leadership.
"Sometimes it comes completely unexpected," he said. "One of the things you have to do to be successful is handle that adversity."
NFL facts show it's all in the numbers
24 statistics give prospects for'97 football season
By Dave Goldberg The Associated Press
Here are 24 numbers, from 0 to 22,980 that say a little about prospects for the 1997 NFL season:
0 — playoff games won by New Orleans in 30 years of existence.
1 regular season plays for Tim Hanshaw in his two seasons as starting left tackle for San Francisco.
2 — NFL coaches traded for each other - Ray Rhodes of Philadelphia from the New York Giants to
San Francisco in 1979 for Tony Dungy of Tampa Bay.
2. 9—1996 rushing average of Ki Jana Carter of Cincinnati, first overall pick in the 1995 draft.
3 — head coaches (Ron Meyer, Ted Marchibroda, June Jones) that Jeff George, the new Oakland quarterback, has alienated in seven NFL seasons.
4 — head coaches (Bruce Coslet, Pete Carroll, Rich Koike, Bill Parcells) the New York Jets have had in the past five seasons.
6 — bad first-round draft picks by the New York Giants between Rodney Hampton in 1990 and Ike Hilliard in 1997.
7 — games Atlanta has won in September in the seven seasons of the '90s.
8 — weeks Jacksonville will be without injured quarterback Mark
Brunell.
9 — 1,000-yard rushing seasons, an NFL record, Thurman Thomas of Buffalo will have if he does it this year.
10 — Playoff appearances by teams coached by Marty Schottenheimer of Kansas City in 12 seasons of coaching.
11 — fumbles by Rashaan Salaam in his two NFL seasons.
19 — starters for Indianapolis who missed at least one game with an injury last season.
21 — touchdowns scored by Minnesota's defense in the five seasons Dennis Green has been the head coach.
33 — touchdown passes Vinny Testaverde threw last season for Baltimore.
34. 5 — the average age of the Washington Redskins' starting cor-
nerbacks, Darrall Green (37) and Cris Dishman (32).
45 — percentage of players who started for Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl 17 months ago who are no longer with the team.
69 — inches, the height of Carolina linebacker Sam Mills, in his 14th professional season.
79 — first downs rushing last season by Barry Sanders of Detroit.
80 — first downs rushing last season by San Diego.
89. 2 — 1964 rating of John Elway of Denver, who led the AFC in passing last season.
120. 8 — exhibition season quarterback rating of former Barcelona Dragon Jon Kitna of Seattle.
22,980 - the average attendance at three "home" exhibition games for the newly relocated Tennessee Oilers.
Oiler has learned from past mistakes
The Associated Press
NASHVILLE. Tenn.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
Anthony Dorsett came into the NFL last year with a lot of people watching how he measured up against his father Tony, the Hall of Famer and Heisman Trophy winner.
But Dorsett wound up spending most of his rookie season with the Houston Oilers on special teams. Now he promises he has learned from his rookie mistakes.
"Last year I thought I knew what I was doing. But it took me to this off season, like the first passings, for me to realize I was playing defense completely wrong." Dorsett said.
He also didn't take care of himself the way he should have.
Too many times during training camp last year, coaches had to remind Dorsett to drink water. He didn't listen and cramped up every day.
His biggest contribution came with five tackles on special teams.
"It's all been a maturing thing, and it's all turned out well," Dorsett said.
Dorsett was a far cry from what the Oilers thought they were getting when they picked him. While at Pittsburgh, he had 80 tackles and defensed 14 passes, with three interceptions, and also played some at wide
receiver.
Realizing that he hadn't taken advantage of his speed or size — big for a
cornerback at 5-foot-11, 203 pounds — Dorsett watched last season's films of himself. He then studied tape of cornerbacks his size like Kansas City's James Hasty for tips on how to use his body.
"it'repetition," he said. "That's basically what it bakes down to. It's just continuing to get practice at it over and over again."
The work has paid off so far
Dorsett is backing up left cornerback Steve Jackson and filled in last week when right cornerback Darryll Lewis left a preseason game with a hamstring strain. If Lewis isn't ready, Dorsett would start at left cornerback against Dallas on Friday night in their final exhibition.
"He's learning to play angles better," Fisher said. "He has the speed to run deep and to play deep, and he's made very, very few mental mistakes."
Off the field, Dorsett knows people will keep asking him about his father. But he's ready to make his own name.
"I'm not the type of person to give up or quit," he said. "I know I'm not a failure."
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