Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year the Bills have come out blasting with a team of top draft picks and a deep-freeze defense to compile the N.F.L.'s best record (11-1 as of last week). In edging out the New York Jets last week, 9-6, the Bills clinched the American Football Conference Eastern division championship, becoming the first team to secure a play-off berth this year. It was the earliest that an A.F.C. team had won a postseason slot since...
...Bills' success is the result, in large part, of lavish trades and draft picks, and canny free-agent signings. Wilson gave a free hand and an open ! checkbook to Polian and coach Marv Levy, 60, now in his third year with the Bills after spells in the U.S. Football League and the Canadian Football League. The result: 15 of 22 starters are top-round draft picks. Building around veteran All-Pro nose tackle, 285-lb. Fred Smerlas, Buffalo has structured the A.F.C.'s best defense. They have held opponents to just one touchdown in the past four games and have...
...first point of view engenders "laws that,in short, put women on a pedestal," said Sullivan,who cited the draft, which excludes women, as anexample. Followers of the second doctrine believethat protective laws actually hurt women byprolonging stereotypes and, with laws grantingwomen long maternity leaves, "protecting women outof the market," according to Sullivan...
...crafty Cowboys could always finagle a higher draft pick from their dull-witted opponents and get great players like Randy White and Tony Dorsett...
Something happened to the Cowboys ability to draft top players during the 1980 s. With the notable exception of Herschel Walker, the Cowboys' draftees have looked more like second-string players for an arena football team than the heirs to a dynasty...