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3 bo Patriots winning by stopping the run Sclloolboy footbaH) Pages 76, 77 hpr REMINGTON ELECTRONIC Sen cH BDIMTIMf TANNER JOH JOHN made for job rmmmvi CALCULATOR Ds $40095 net), MARKLINE AND REMINGTON COMBINE FOR A By Leigh Montville A Globe Staff It is the second typographical error. The first typographical error is obvious '2-0. Can the New England Patriots, meeting the Los Angeles. Rams this afternoon at Schaefer Stadium, really be un- beaten? The second typographical error is just as crazy. These same Patriots can't be the No.

1 team defensing the rushed football in the American Football Conference, allowing only 71.5 yards per game, can Can the defense that played the role of Robert' Vesco in O. J. Simpson's campaign to gain 2003 yards a year ago really have changed that much? Isn't this the same team that missed the NFL record for allowing most rushing yards by only one sevenTyard lunge in 1973? Can there be such a rapid personality change without even a quick trip to Denmark? Hold on. Take a deep breath. Clutch the nearest NFL Guide to your chest.

This is for real. The Pats suddenly have developed a way to stop people running with the football. True, the season is young. True, a lot of ridiculous things can happen as early as this afternoon when the Rams unload. Also true, however, is the fact the Pats already have played two better games against opposing running games than at any time in the past five or six years.

The experiment is Five rookies are starting, the total years of experience for 11 players is 22," and this new-world, new-look Pats defense is forking. Call it the 53 Defense, the Nickel Defense, the Oklahoma Defense, the Stack Defense. Call it the Sesame Street Defense. Call it anything. Four linebackers are starting.

A trio has replaced the front, four in the defensive The glamourSam Huff middle linebacker position has been eliminated. The old rowdy Fearsome Foursome type names -can't be used any more. Pats "coach Chuck Fairbanks has substituted a sponge for the old-line taken the thunder and new sit-back defense with these new people and so far lightning from the playing field. He has brought in this the change has been remarkable. 'J How remarkable? You can't do any better than go from last to first in one off-season.

problem by grabbing the job forcefully. Chandler was cut. Foster became a back-up. In the three-man line, there was another reason for the new defense. Fairbanks had two instant candidates for the new middle guard position.

"That's a position that we thought would help Ray Hamilton," the coach says. "The middle guard plays directly over the center. Centers usually are slightly smellier people in this league than tackles. Ray was having some trouble against size on the outside. We thought he'd be helped by this move.

"Also, we thought Arthur Moore could play there. This is a position that requires that a man stay on his. feet. Arthur is very good at that for a big man." Moore and Hamilton thus were made alternates at middle guard. Julius Adams, the most experienced man in the entire defense with four years, was given one end.

Mel Lunsford stepped from a crowd to take the other end. Two new defensive backs also were added some of our other ones didn't seem to want to hit anybody," "says Fairbanks). This was it. The new, defense. The new look.

"The main thing this defense seems to do is get a lot more, people to the ball," free safety Sandy Durke says. "A year age those ball carriers would come into the secondary all alone. Now there's three or four guys all over them." The liabilities to the defense are obvious. A fullback-oriented inside game could hurt. A pick-apart short passing game could hurt.

Either option, however, relies on a succession of small gains. This is a defense that waits for mistakes. It is not a big-play defense. It shouldn't give up the big play. It shouldn't cause the big play.

It is a sponge defense played by aggressive people. "We've got a lot of kids who like to hurt people," Durko says. "That's what you We make mistakes, but we're We're. going to 'get better and better. "Some of the changes in personnel have' really helped.

I was 'at a party when I heard Steve Kintrjiad, been traded and I was the happiest person there. He "hurt us a lot last year. You never knew what he was going to do. He went his own way on every play. "But mostly I think it's been the defense that's been the big story.

I think it's been great." How great? How long can it last? How high can it fly? "Oh, don't overplay' it," Fairbanks says. "It's not that big a thing. It's minor. There aren't any tricks in this game. Especially if you're playing a team like the Rams." Not any tricks? "Well," the coach says, "maybe if you could use 12 or 14 men on the field at the same time Now that would be a truly unique defense.

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Calif. Third Round Scores Johnny Miller 69-69-67-205 Billy Casper 65-70-72-207 Bob Stanton Bobby Walzel 67-70-72-209 Tim Collins 71-70-C9-210 John Mahaffey 70-68-73-211 Leonard Thompson 70-71-70-211 Forrest Fezlcr 69-72-70-211 Larry Ziegler 66-73-72-211 Mike Keasor 74-68-69-211 Gene Littler 69-71-72-212 Al Geibcruer 2 J. Sncad 71-l-jf-73-212 Jerry Heard 70-72-70-212 Curtis Sif.ord 67-75-70-212 Victor Regalado 75-70-67-U2 Lee Trcvino 70-73-69-212 nn Rirs 71-67-75-213 "It's true now, it's been true forever, "Fairbanks says, "the most successful football teams are the most successful running teams. Also, the most successful defensive teams are the teams most successful defensing the run." With this in mind, the Pals coach shuddered in the off-season as he watched film after film of his team's 1973 efforts against the run. Zoom, would weave for 250 yards.

Zap. Mercury Morris would sp'Ve the ball after a 70-yard ramble. Slosh. "Sirmson would return, skating through the snow for 218 more yards. It was depressing.

It wasawful. If you built a house and it looked like the Pats' 1973 defense, you'd probably want to tear it down and build it again from the beginning. 1 f- Which was exactly what Fairbanks He looked at the people available. He looked at the situation. He decided he would have to travel with kids and he decided the best way to travel would be with the four-linebacker, three-lineman look.

It is a defense that has been used increasingly in the NFL in recent years in passing situations. Second and long? Third and long? Teams like Miami and Washington and yes the Pats have brought in that fourth I nebacker to replace a lineman. The new man has afforded more mobility, more options. 9 Fairbanks simply decided to go all the way. He'd bring in the fourth linebacker at first-and-long and to defense the run, not the pass.

"From the films I could see the place -we were getting burned was on the outside," the coach says. "From tackle to tackle we-were okay. We didn't get hurt much there. But we were getting killed by those long gain-. ers." With a fourth linebacker, an extra man standing I m- Th Discount Department Store Zayre for a 1 IllStlit and ready to react laterally at the snap of the ball, there lUt'oliu 'would ie.

extra coverage to the outside. Less pass rush, V.7;.7. outside coverage. Bob Panasiuk 69-70-75-214 i airbanss's cecsion was macleeasier by the fact he Bunky Hcary 6J-7a-7S-24 mind, but ll-tlii already had a fourth linebacker not only in Charles Coody 72-72-70-2)4 On the roste r.Tnhn Tarmpr fi-Wt-4 pound jour- ll.i r717l7yVia Tom Watson neyman third-year pro, suddenly became more valua- uave srocKion ii Lyn Lott 73-71-71-2 5 ble. Courtney 71-74-70-215 Marty Fleckman 70-73-72-21i The marks against Tanner always had been that he lob EMhSSSd u-Mfe5 was too small to be a defensive end and to slow to be a Tommy Aaron full.Hmo linsKaon uj u.iu Dan sikes.

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