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Tuesday, January 22, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
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Raiders and 49ers contemplate 1990 seasons
Raiders stampeded by Bills, but look to future
The Associated Press
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — A day after his team was on the wrong side of one of the most one-sided losses in NFL playoff history, Los Angeles Raiders coach Art Shell was still in shock.
But there was some optimism about next year.
The season came to an abrupt end in the AFC championship game on Sunday when the Raiders were drubbed 51-3 by the Buffalo Bills.
"I'm dumbfounded by the whole thing," Shell said. "We couldn't slow them down and get anything going on our side of the ball. It was their day. They got on a roll and couldn't be stopped.
"Yesterday, we just did not play
the game. Today
might look like if I forgot to
Jeff Jaeger kicked a 41-yard field goal at the end of the Raiders' first possession to make it 7-3, but that was it as the Bills dominated as few
teams ever have in a postseason game.
"Watching that was an unbelievable feeling," Shell said. "It's going to hurt for a while. We were so close to getting to the big game. It hurts. You've got to smile to keep from crying.
"We'll bounce back. We know we did a lot of things well this year. Our team has a lot to be proud of. We had a great season, and this team. They worked very hard."
The Raiders went 12-4 in winning the AFC West and qualifying for the playoffs for the first time since 1985. The Raiders are 20-10 under Shell after losing 26 of 39 games before his hiring in late 1986.
"We'll take a look this off season, look at what we've done, see how we can improve ourselves," Shell said. "We're going to get it done. I expect our team to really fight back, fight like the devil."
"This makes you all the more
hungry to want to get back. We were so close."
The most one-sided playoff game was Chicago's 73-0 defeat of Washington in the 1941 NFL title game. Next on the list is the Oakland Raiders' 56-7 defeat of Houston in a 1969 AFL playoff game.
Sunday's game ranks third.
"The way I feel now, I can't wait to start working out again." Raiders defensive tackle Bob Golic said. He was wearing a black shirt anything happen like that. We were way off, we were just way off. And the Bills were as hot as we were cold.
"There's frustration, everybody's upset. But on the other hand, we've got a beck of a team. It can only get better. We've got so much talent on this team. I don't think we can go anywhere but up."
Shell and Golic said the weather and Buffalo's no-huddle offense were not to blame.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers won 15 of their 18 games this season, but by no means were a dominating football team.
The Associated Press
After prevailing time and again despite the slightest margin for error, the 49ers were undone Sunday as the ones to make the critical mistake.
Roger Craig's fourth-quarter fumble gave the New York Giants a last chance for victory — the kind Joe Montana and the 49ers capitalized on so many times in recent years — and the Giants turned it into Matt Bahr's game-winning field goal as time expired in the NFC Championship game. The 49ers were sent home one game shy of playing for an unprecedented third consecutive Super Bowl title.
"This team played under an awful lot of stress throughout the season." 49ers coach George Seifert said Monday at his final news conference of
49ers' edge not enough in NFC Championship
the season. "Other teams have too,
but this team more so. I'm proud of
our record. We have a great deal to
be proud of, but at the same time
we're very frustrated to have come
up short."
In winning 15 of their first 17 games this season, the 49ers came from behind 10 times, and won eight games by six points or less. Just as they did in 2013, was a struggle in which the slightest mishap could have spelled disaster
From John Fourcade's inability to drive the New Orleans Saints in the final minutes of Week 1 to Mark Rypien's second-half interceptions in the playoff opener, the 49ers came up on the winning side. Even in the most talked-about game of the season, the 49ers' victory over the Giants on Dec. 3, victory came only after Simms, with New York deep in 49ers' territory, was sacked looking for a receiver in the end zone as time expired.
Simply put, the 49ers survived — not only the string of tense victories, but the scrutiny from the media and the focus of each opponent, who viewed them the team to knock off the top of the NFL mountain.
"This is so unbelieveable," 49ers quarterback Steve Young said after Sunday's game. "So unbelieveable you can get to three Super Bowl(s)."
The glaring weakness of this aesers team was its inability to run the football. With Montana, Jerry Rice and John Taylor at the center of its passing attack, the 49ers almost overcame it. San Francisco scored 28 of its 40 offensive touchdowns during the regular season through the air, and gained 70.8 of its yards by the pass.
"I'm not going to all of a sudden say that we have to become a more-established running club," Seifert said.
Southern Cal's Marinovich arrested on cocaine possession investigation
The Associated Press
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.
Early in September, Southern Cal
quarterback Todd Marinovich had to
tell reporters to cool all the talk about
the Heisman Trophy and the NFL
draft.
Since then, he has been suspended twice from the team, and Sunday he was arrested for investigation of cocaine possession.
According to the police report, Marinovich was one of four young
Marinovich was carrying about a gram of the drug when he was arrested at 4:15 a.m., police spokesperson Mike McDonough said.
men cavorting through a residential neighborhood two blocks from his mother's home. The four were by nurses by the about possible disturbances to neighbors
As the officers questioned the four men, "the subject, who was later identified as Todd Marinovich, was observed attempting to conceal something behind his back," Sgt. Andy Gonjs said.
All four men were searched, and police said they found a pouch in Marinovich's waistband that contained about one gram of white powder believed to be cocaine. None of the other men were arrested.
Marinovich, 21, was booked and released at 11:10 a.m. on his own recognition. McBrouch said. Marinovich was convicted in Feb. 11 in Harbor Municipal Court.
Marinovich was indefinitely suspended by coach Larry Smith on Jan. 11 for missing a mandatory players meeting and failing to register for classes before the start of the spring semester.
There has been widespread speculation that the sophomore will enter the NFL draft. A player wishing to play in the draft must notify the NFL by Feb. 1.
Smith said, "I haven't talked to Todd yet, but I'm trying to get a hold of him. We really feel badly for Todd and his family. A week ago, Todd was suspended indefinitely from our football program, but that suspension was not related to this problem.
"USC has a very strong drug testing program for all of its athletes, and in the time I've been here, it has worked very effectively."
Smith and Marinovich met Friday. It was later reported that Marinovich could rejoin the team in the fall but the team suspended through spring practice.
freshman year, leading the Trojans to the Pac-10 title and a Rose Bowl victory over Michigan.
But he had an erratic sophomore season. It started spectacularly, as he completed 25 of 35 passes for 337 yards and three touchdowns in a 34-16 victory over Syracuse in the Kieckoff Classic. It was that performance that started talk about Marinovich winning the Heisman Trophy and perishing in the N.F.L. The quarterback issued a statement saying he would no longer comment about either his Heisman chances or his NFL options.
Marinovich had an impressive
novich had sub-par performances in losses to Washington and Arizona. Then Marimovich was suspended for a state game on Oct. 27 for cutting class.
He was later reinstated and ended up starting 11 of 13 games.
Against Michigan State in the John Hancock Bowl, Marinovich three interceptions, lost a goal-line hit. The team was yanked in favor of Shane Foley
But that talk soon subsided. Mari-
The Trojans went 8-4-1 and finished
20th in the final Associated Press
Press, Marvin Horniz completed 196 of 322
yards and 13 touchdowns in 1990.
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