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This was in the exhibition season, when Dan Fouts and Winslow were contemplating the Chargers' 1980 offensive script. "With the things we do in this offense," Fouts told Winslow, "you could catch 100 passes." "With this team," Winslow responded, "I'll be lucky to get 50 balls." Winslow, of course, knew he would have to share with John Jefferson and Charlie Joiner. And Fouts, knowing no one could double -cover all three, suspected the tight end might be more frequently isolated. Led NFL With 89 Catches The result was Winslow led the National Football League with 89 catches, the most since Charlie Henni-gan caught a record 101 for Houston in 1964. Jefferson and Joiner? Plenty to go around.

They finished second and third in the AFC in receptions. All three are All-Pro. "Before Kellen's through," Fouts reiterated, "he will catch 100 passes in a season." Only two players in NFL history have reached 100 receptions in a single season Hennigan and Lionel Taylor of Denver with 100 in 1961. "I guess Dan wasn't too far from being right this year," Winslow said. "There were a few passes I think I could have caught with another second of concentration, maybe four balls I outright dropped.

Not to mention a couple called back by penalties." A Team Player Such individual goals are not, however, high on the list of Winslow's priorities. He's more interested in helping the Chargers beat the Oakland Raiders in the American Football Conference championship game MANAGER Wanted 8hoe (tore manager. Mutt be powerful In handling poraonnal and large volume operation. Must have experience In managing better-grade shoe itorM. Protlt tharlng, full medical beneflti, bonu arrangement.

8end resume to: L.A. TIMES BOX Y-121 big runs." Joiner and Jefferson, nominally, are the wide receivers. Winslow is listed as a tight end, but is frequently split wide to take advantage of his speed. "Kellen's something for a guy who weighs 250 pounds," Joiner said. "He's got good speed and lateral moves.

He can catch it and run, and that gives us another dimension. It's hard for one person to bring him down." The Buffalo of the Group Jefferson is the gazelle, swift and svelte. Joiner is the lion, quick and wily. Winslow is the buffalo, powerful and relentless. Those were the big three, but the importance of a lesser-known Charger receiver manifested itself in that 20-14 win over Buffalo Gregg McCrary he was injured on the Chargers' fourth offensive play of that game.

For much of the last part of the season, the Chargers had gone with their version of the two tight end offense. McCrary was usually lined up at tight end, but Winslow might have been anywhere. In that Buffalo game, Winslow caught a pass for five yards on the Chargers' first scrimmage play. That was his last reception. McCrary received with a back injury, and Winslow had to "stay at home" at tight end.

"With McCrary in there," Coach Don Coryell explained, "Winslow can play so many different positions. Without McCrary, we can't play him one down at flanker, one down at split end, one down in the slot, one down at wingback and put him in motion." McCrary is a doubtful participant against Oakland. Winslow remains the only tight end. "We're going to have to go back to the chalkboard," Coryell said, "and do a lot of thinking." This man is obviously a major figure in game preparation as the Chargers prepare for their first championship game since 1965, when the American Football Conference was known as the American Football League. And 8-year-old Kellen Winslow knew nothing of the word potential.

After leading the NFL in receptions and making the Pro Bowl his second year in pro ball, it might seem Winslow would be eager to have folks stop talking potential. But such is not the case. "There's always something left untapped in a player," Winslow said. "Even John Jefferson. Believe it or not, he'll do something to top whatever he's done before.

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We talked about them before the season, but they didn't really need to be mentioned. The coaches do most of the talking and the players have to go do it." Coaches are reluctant to project goals in public. Caution tion is the key word, but the public is not really fooled. Four teams remain of the original 28 who had varying ranges of Super Bowl hopes, some remote and some reasonably attainable. "We wanted to reach the playoffs," Winslow said, "and go further than we did last year." They accomplished that Saturday with the win over Buffalo, a team which had beaten them, 26-24, in the regular season.

Like Oakland, Buffalo was noted for its defense. "Buffalo sticks to certain defenses," Winslow said, "and it plays them well. They don't do a lot of things. It's basically Chuck Knox football, same as when he was coach of the Rams. Most of the time, teams reflect the coach's personality Winslow hesitated and laughed at the incongruity of what he had said.

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He had been like a yoyo in football's hands, flirting with it but escaping until it finally grasped him in his senior year. Witness his boyhood dealings with the game: Grade 7 He wanted to play and his coach wanted him to play, but his mother wouldn't let him. Grade 8 Teachers were on strike. No school, no football. Grade 9 He had lost interest.

Grade 10 He went out for the team, but two-a-day workouts discouraged him. Grade 11 He had a job paying $6.55 an hour sorting boxes for United Parcel. "I had a chance to be a supervisor," he said. "I could take the sure thing or play football and maybe get a scholarship. I flipped a coin and took a gamble and ended up here." Unpolished, but Showed Potential Winslow got to Missouri, a rather unpolished freshman.

The word most frequently used with his name was potential. "The Big 8 magazines would come out and it would be potential this and potential that," he said. "By my junior year, the label bugged me." It bugged, but things were going along as he had hoped. "I sat down with a friend before I went to Missouri," he said, "and told him what I hoped to do. I wanted to play some as a freshman, start as a sophomore, make all -conference as a junior and make All-American as a senior.

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