Ricky Watters

The San Diego football team has seized first place in the AFC West this year with carefully coached, uniquely aggressive defensive men who attack not the players in the offensive line but the gaps between those players. Up and down the line, as the...

Until this week, the Jacksonville Jaguars and St. Louis Rams both seemed to be hurtling toward the Super Bowl. It's clear now, though, that the Rams really need more defense and the Jaguars more offense. These are two promising teams, but neither is a...

There are three identical reasons for the 1999 achievements of the 11-2 Indianapolis Colts and the 11-2 St. Louis Rams: 3. Because both teams lost so often for so many years, accumulating barrels of draft choices, they've both had so many shots in so...

NFL defenses have become so complex this season that you can't possibly outguess them. So the St. Louis Rams say. So, they don't even try. They don't even think about it. "Our quarterback never calls an audible," Mike Martz, the club's offensive...

To win two of the biggest games of 1999, the Indianapolis Colts and St. Louis Rams both played similarly aggressive first-half football Sunday, repeatedly interspersing first-down passes with passing-down runs. Proving that offense-minded teams can win...

So this is how it ends: in the mud, in distress, in a California fog. The Bears, 17-point underdogs going into Saturday's second-round NFC playoff game, had their lunch handed to them Saturday-a five-star San Francisco treat. A mere 17-point loss would...

Winning isn't everything. Wouldn't you know it, a Green Bay Packer said that. And we'll skip the second part of the well-known cliche right now. Too depressing for the Bears to hear. Vince Lombardi's famous words were given an entirely different spin...