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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, August 20, 1998
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Rookie quarterbacks to face off in NFL
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — Chargers general manager Bobby Beathard saw Ryan Leaf talking to reporters Monday afternoon and couldn't resist stirring it up.
"It's the biggest week in the NFL Leaf vs. Manning." Beathard said.
Peyton Manning's Indianapolis Colts play host to Leaf's Chargers on Saturday night, the first of two matchups in 44 days between the rookie quarterbacks taken with the first two picks in the NFL draft.
"I think it's the media's big play—here's your big push to get the No. 1 and No. 2 picks playing against each other," Leaf said. "But they're not going to be playing against each other. It's the Chargers against the Colts. He's not playing safety or linebacker against me, so it really has no relevance to what's going on out there."
After leading the Colts to a 30-27 victory Monday night in Cincinnati, Manning said, "People are going to make comparisons, and you can't pretend it's not there. But I'm not trying to outdo him, and he's not trying to do me.
The teams, not the media, make up their own exhibition schedules. This game was scheduled a few years ago,
long before the Colts and Chargers turned out to be so bad that they earned such high draft picks.
Manning: Faces
No. 2 NFT draft pick
Leaf Saturday night
The Colts had the NFL's worst record last year, 3-13, and the Chargers were 4-12. Even so, Beathard had to made a block-buster deal with Arizona just t
move from third to second in the draft.
And by finishing last in their divisions, the Colts and Chargers earned a regular-season matchup
-Oct. 4, also at Indianapolis.
Leaf and Manning may not like the comparisons, but they're going to get them, even from the NFL's public relations machine.
In the NFL's preseason release, there's a section with this headline: "Passing The Torch: QB Class of '88. It's noted that the Oct. 4 game will be just the second "battle" in NFL history of rookie quarterbacks drafted 1-2 in the same year. The other was Sept. 19, 1993, when second-pick Rick Mirer's Seattle Seahawks beat first-pick Drew Bledsoe's New England Patriots 17-14.
Manning and Leaf will do it twice. One game won't count, the other will.
Beathard said that he expected this game to get a lot of attention and that both organizations would try to downplay it.
"It's just the way the schedule goes," he said. "At this stage of their careers it's probably meaningless to try to compare the two on the outcome of this game or out of their performance in this game." Leaf said he was looking forward to the game.
Leaf said he spoke with Manning right before training camp opened.
"I'll probably like the boo a little bit," he said. "They get you fired up a little more."
"Every time we're around each other, we sit and talk about our families, get to know what's going on in our lives, which is a great release because we're both in such similar situations," he said. "It's nice to have somebody like that to be able to talk to."
"Ryan and I have a lot in common," Manning said. "We're playing a lot as rookies and have a lot of pressure put on us. He and I are in the same boat. We talked about it way back. All we can do is the best we can and try to learn on the job this year."
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Clippers may hire Rambis
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Clippers are expected to formally offer their head coaching spot to Los Angeles Lakers assistant Kurt Rambis, it was reported today.
general manager Mitch Kupchak said of Rambis. "He continues to ask questions every day, he
The offer could come as early as today, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing sources close the situation. The Times also reported that the Sacramento Kings, who fired Eddie Jordan on Tuesday, also are interested in Rambis.
"He is the hardest worker of any assistant I have ever seen." Lakers
watches tape and he is eager to learn. He had to know details (of the game) more than other players (who had more talent), and that certainly didn't hurt him. He certainly well, and, most importantly, he has been involved in a winning organization for many years."
Rambis met once with Elgin Baylor, the Clippers' vice president of
basketball operations, this summer and had a meeting recently with team owner Donald Sterling.
As for the Kings, Jordan was fired as head coach after leading the team to a 27-55 record last season. Jordan, 43, spent seven seasons in the NBA, including 1981-82 when he and Rambis were members of a Laker team that won the NBA championship. Jordan also returned to the Lakers briefly in the 1983-84 season.
Neither Rambis nor his agent, Lon Rosen, was available for comment, the newspaper said.
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