probably players today that are on steroids and are somehow
avoiding detection now i am confident not being a proponent of the league's
policy in any way there are fewer players on steroids now
than there have been over the years if you were to lay one reason on the line
as to why guys are so much bigger it's the improvement in weight training
there is still steroid abuse but it's weight training more than anything else
kids are lifting now when they're 10 and 12 years old
when when i was in college back in the late 60s
our weight room was by today's standards non-existent
nobody lifted weights and you can see the trends
back the heaviest offensive line in 82 was the redskins at 272
and 10 years later the lightest offensive line
is two pounds heavier sometimes that offensive line might reflect the various
offenses too of the teams above tibet cisco with
very sophisticated a lot of movement of their offensive line
third down and nine is oh wait it's will burr marshall
two first round choices may have been cheap
well big time players always seem to crank it up under the lights
wilbur marshall is no exception and again it was stokes who actually beat
russell freeman the left tackle that flushed elway out
into the arms of wilbur marshall well john elway has made a career of making
linebackers look foolish he tried to chase him
john elway and his prime would not run away from wilbur marshall
haran's kick
bounces out of bounds but wilbur marshall tonight has a sack an interception a
forced fumble a pass deflection a touchdown
and six tackles outside of that he said the night off
and he has a deep thigh bruise
redskins 31 broncos three first down washington at the 37 yard line
urbans picks up a couple of yards second and eight
art muck well he's the uh the only drama really left in this one tonight canny
catch largent tonight he's going to catch him sooner or
later three catchers tonight for a total of 19
yards needs three to tie for the break i would say to have a
chance because he represents the conservative
high percentage pass he works primarily underneath
and he might be the man who would get the call as washington
tries to play ball control football let's be realistic we hope he gets it
yeah again at the urbans
we always want to be a part in history ron holmes
makes the tackle you know we had mentioned before
certain uh people and two of whom are in the stadium tonight
berry and taylor who've led through the years see don hudson
was the all-time leader between 1939 and 63 then billy houghton for a year
then berry had it for eight years and don maynard the former jet
was the leader for three taylor held the mark for nine
charlie joiner for three largent eclipse joiner in 87
and of course it's going to be munchname up there from 92 and beyond
did you know that you saw don maynard there who was the leader from 72 to 75
dump off the urbans and he first down as he takes it to the 45 yard line of the
broncos tackle by henderson by play by ripping don maynard
i think most people forgot this actually was a teammate of mine in st
louis teammate of mine with the giants that's
right he he left the uh he left the jets and came to the uh
came to the cardinals where he was hardly utilized he left the giants to go
to the titans and who turned into the jets and of
course he's in hall of fame we made a great cut
well you think of him catching almost all of his passes from nameth
probably a couple from jim hart
44 yard line i think more from nameth
urban hard yard here comes the flag
final minute of the third quarter mccarter tells us it is a hold
against the redskins you know think of the people that held that record steve
large it to me is amazing he didn't has never played on a great football team
never i don't want to offend anyone but never really played
with a great quarterback to put up and he wasn't fast
jim's jim's orange just fell off his couch holding
number 66 offense 10 yards repeat first down
craig fell off his couch too
but i'm in one of the all-time greats you would think it would be the
kind of quarterback that would put up those numbers like joe namath to
don maynard
uh and he did have the great speed he just had a remarkable career
yeah you think of combinations like unite us to bury and people like that
that's what i'm saying first and 20
liner
picks up a couple and that figures to be the final play
of the third quarter the quarter dominated by the redskins the entire
game dominated by the redskins who are on their way to a
three and two mark
i appreciate yourself john elway is moving into the fourth quarter
yep dan smells overtime
end of three redskins 31 broncos three i smell something
we'll return with monday night football after this word
from our abc station
man in the center of your picture there is tommy maddox
suppressing not even suppressing just yawning period
former ucla quarterback and uh well he'd be the youngest player
in the nfl and four and a half decades to throw a pass if he gets in tonight he's
always back up and the probable denver quarterback of the
future he's been watching he probably doesn't want to get him i was going to
say he doesn't seem to think that his uh his insertion into this game is imminent
fourth quarter begins with liner taking it across the 50 but there's a marker
down and here are the numbers quite
depressing for denver through three quarters of play
as we said coming into the game even though they were four and one
they've been out gained about a hundred yards per game and tonight they're just
getting beaten every phase that was a night philadelphia numbers
that cost them a 30 to nothing loss down elway struggling in that game
eight for 18 for 59 yards
goodyear blimp spirit of acron there it is
in the night sky over rfk stadium
providing the scenics
third down and 15 after the penalty back to the 49 yard line
bernice liner stays in the block ripping on the roll
buying time airing it out looking for art muck
and that's knocked down at the last moment by wyman henderson at the goal line
well art muck was also giving an assist he could see that he wasn't going to
get that football he was going to make sure that henderson didn't either
well it takes so long for mark rippen to roll as far as he rolled to the sideline
that even if the coverage is poor at the
start and this time it wasn't by henderson
you're still going to have time to react back to it see
you see muck knocking that away though
it's
touched by mitchell at the 15 yard line with 14 minutes and 20 seconds remaining
seem like an eternity to the dead robocos a trail by 28
shots spectacular and if you've never been there and you have an opportunity
to come to washington that's a beautiful setting
and kind of a little garden area that is spectacular
well rfk stadium tonight pretty much rocking but right now
uh just a lot of satisfaction is there redskins lead 31 to three
delway on first down hit shannon sharp takes his way up to the 35 yard line
where he's tackled by brad edwards he has been a real bright spot
tonight for denver one of uh one of very few
he had nine receptions last week and he's collected a lot tonight
yeah at 16 coming into the game tonight
uh that is denver's longest play of the night until
that moment the longest play of the night
pass or run was 12 yards that one was good for 21
first out of the 36 always throwing an out for russell and
russell is banged out by brad edwards
he was really banged by brad edwards and now this should become a little
easier for john to get the completions underneath as the redskins
start to think more and more let's don't give up the big one
all right it wouldn't be realistic to expect
the redskins to be playing with the same tenacity that
they've played with in the first three quarters or even technically
first and ten at the 45
la too high for sharp covered by danny copeland
broncos go home after the game
and
they continue on against houston tough team of course but they do play
them in mile high stadium where dan reeves's team has been
inordinately tough through the years then they go to san diego and then they
get a bye week and later we get to see them again
against seattle
go over to 30th meanwhile washington stays here they get filly here and then
they go to minnesota so this is the first of
three big ones for the redskins three division leaders in three weeks yeah
and tonight they pretty much answered the skeptics who thought that the
redskins were a team that might be on the verge of change
over it's an older team it's a team that some people thought may have peaked
last year some people thought would be on the
downside this year it's been a mystery to jill gibso
he told us he's never had an off season like this as a redskins head coach
in 11 years he had to look around in the training room 70 75 guys were there
during the off season and nothing ever came quite in the
sink and he can't blame it as he said on ripping just being a
holdout third and ten that's broken up at the
35-yard line by martin mayhew
betty pedibone said something interesting to me tonight he said we
looked back on last year he said it was almost like somebody up there
in that other world had won the office pool on us
nothing we did went wrong everything worked for us nobody got hurt
a dream year as he put it last year well as charlie cassoli the gm said it was
one of the great years ever they only lost one game that meant anything the
one to dallas the other loss is a meaningless end of
season loss to philadelphia all the way gets sacked and it pretty
much is the exclamation point on tonight's game monty colman
quick look at richie pedibone admiring the handiwork
what he laid out for the defensive unit this team in his 15th year
and nobody suffers like this man dan reeve either
uh washington redskins on top 31 to 3 with 13-14 remaining
skins take over at the 44th urnus biner
fouls ahead for a game of six where he's tackled by
michael brooks and they are warming up young maddox
who uh still had eligibility remaining at ucla
and would have been quarterbacking the brooms this year and he very
well may indeed become the first or the
youngest quarterback to throw a pass in the nfl since 1946
so stay tuned that'll be less than looking at him this
idea would be to keep john elway helping
second and four since 1946 he would be the youngest quarterback
ever to throw a pass throw a pass now what if he only hands off would he also
be the youngest quarterback to hand off we are going to
uh go through the files youngest quarterback to hand off here it is
computer you have a crank there youngest quarterback to hand off
computer hurts working on it
still searching let me know when you fight you got it
there is one of the finest quarterbacks ever to air it out
third down and three
rippin willy seek monk yes he does and art takes it to the 20-yard line
and that's going to keep most of this crowd here that's uh
four catches tonight for art and he's too shy of the
lorgent mark and there is a feeling in this crowd they are well aware
of what art needs to do to make nfl history