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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 9, 1994
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NFL Week Two Preview
A look at the top games this weekend
San Francisco at Kansas City
He acknowledges he left his heart in San Francisco.
He acknowledges he left his heart in San Francisco.
He also acknowledges that his head, his arm and the rest of his body are in Kansas City.
That's just so everyone knows Joe Montana will give nothing but his best Sunday when he faces the team he led to four Super Bowl wins for the first time since the 48ers traded him to the Chiefs after the 1992 season.
"I'm sure I'm going to be excited and nervous," he said. "All the people back home will be watching, and so will everyone else."
There are, of course, several subplots, including Montana vs. Steve Young, his feast-forward left-handed quar
terback and the man who effectively ran him out of San Francisco. (Young is not held in the same regard as Montana, even in the Bay Area. Although he's won an MVP and three passing titles, he has lost two NFC title games.)
Montana also faces Jerry Rice, his favorite receiver, whose three touchdowns Monday night gave him a new career record of 127. Fifty-five of those TDs came on passes from Montana, and 49 came from Young.
"It brings back a lot of memories to me," Rice says. "But you know. One thing I never told Joe. I never told Joe he was the greatest to ever play the game. And he was the best to ever play the game."
In the Chiefs' 30-17 win in New Orleans, Montana was in his mid-1980s form, 24 of 33 for 315 yards and two touchdowns. Young reciprocated Monday night, 19 of 32 for 308 yards and four TDs in a 44-14 rout of the Los Angeles Raiders.
Two of those touchdowns were to Rice, including the 38-yarder that set the record and cleared away any sideshow from Sunday's game.
Miami at Green Bay
These are playoff-bound teams that need to take another step.
"I hope Dan's arm got tired last week," says Green Bay's Mike Holmgren.
Miami showed offense last week (Dan Marino: 473 yards and five TDs). Green Bay showed defense, holding Minnesota to 194 total yards and shutting down Warren Moon. "I hope Dan's arm got tired last week," says Green Bay's Mike Holmgren.
Brett Favre, who led the league last year with 24 interceptions, is learning to throw the ball away, but the same offensive problems remain for the Packers: little running and no real receiving alternative to Sterling Sharpe.
Denver at New York Jets
A funny thing happened to John Elway in Denver's 37-34 loss to San Diego. He couldn't close.
About to score at the end of the first half, Elway had an interception returned 99 yards for a touchdown, then fumbled the ball away on a potential game-winning drive at the end.
In addition, the Broncos' questionable defense is banged up.
Their best hope is the offense and the Jets' history. After a win like the one they had in Buffalo (Jets' coach Petra Carroll's debut), they tend to slump, particularly at home.
Pittsburgh at Cleveland
The bad news for the Steelers is that they've won only one of the last dozen games they've played on the lakefront.
The good news is the law of averages and that they started 0-2 last season and still made the playoffs.
Bill Belichick used to be a defensive
coordinator and a special teams coach, which is why the Browns beat the Bengals last week: returns by Eric Metcalf (punt) and Randy Baldwin (kickoff) for touchdowns a surprise two-point conversion and an endzone interception by Antonio Langham, the No.1 draft choice.
Chicago at Philadelphia Monday night
Monday night
So look out for the "Philly boo-birds" if the Bears jump off quickly Monday night. Erik Kramer gave Chicago the semblance of an offense against Tampa Bay last week.
Randall Cunningham threw for 344 yards but was sacked five times and seemed quite tentative in his first real game back from last year's broken leg.
On the other hand, what does it prove to beat the Bucs at home?
The Eagles went into the Meadowlands still thinking about the pay cuts some of them were forced to take, fell behind the Giants 21-3 and never quite recovered.
Minnesota lost 16-10 in Green Bay, and the offense didn't score a touchdown. Plus Warren Moon had three passes intercepted, including two that bounced off the hands of receivers.
Yet a third important game for the home team — a loss here would leave the Vikings 0-2 against the two teams that figure to challenge them for the NFC Central title.
Detroit at Minnesota
"They'll get another chance, but only one," Dennis Green said of the young culprits, Qadry Ismail and Jake Reed.
Houston at Dallas
They dropped half-a-dozen Moon balls.
Barry Switzer's getting a chance to say the same elches he used to utter when his Oklahoma teams were 70-point favorites over Kansas or Iowa State: "On any given day ..."
That could be true if the Oliers' 45-21 loss last week in Indianapolis was just one of those things.
But it doesn't help that Cody Carlson was hurt and that Bucky Richardson might start this week, although Richardson did well enough in garbage time last week.
The Cowboys looked no different under Switzer than they did under Jimmy Johnson in their 26-9 win in Pittsburgh last week.
So much for exhibitions.
Seattle at LA Raiders
Where is Bo Jackson, who had such a great game against the Seahawks seven years ago? Where is Marcus Allen?
The fact is the Raiders' Super Bowl hopes looked very overblown Monday night without a running game to go with Jeff Hostetler and his track team.
Now they try to run against a pretty good front line led by Cortez Kennedy.
New York Giants
This game could answer some questions about the Sea hawks that the 28-7 win in Washington didn't. Are they building nicely, or did they just beat a bad team on a bad team's bad day?
w york Gla at Arizona
The Cardinals' 14-12 loss to the Rams in Anaheim last week makes this a critical game for them, even this early.
"I think we have a great chance to beat the Giants," Ryan says. "We're as
An 0-2 start with a home loss on national television would destroy much of the credibility that Buddy Ryan brought to Bill Bidwill's operation in the desert.
good as they are."
Actually, the Cardinals were supposed to be better. Ryan used to beat better New York teams with less-talented Eagles.
But Dan Reeves has squeezed a lot from youngsters, and he's spent the week working on the blitzes that Ryan is sure to throw at Dave Brown, an ultra-green quarterback.
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