Daryle Lamonica

Oakland Raiders

Daryle Lamonica remains the same enigma in the scouts' reports he has been during his nine-year career, a passer who seems to have all the attributes necessary to reach the outstanding category but still is on the outside looking in.

Size- Lamonica has always had it at 6-foot-3 and 215 pounds. Throwing ability- Lamonica has always had it and a 4 rating by the scouts proves it. Experience- Lamonica has it now with nine years behind him.

But, according to the scouts, the size and the throwing ability have not found the necessary complements and so Lamonica winds up with a rating that leaves him far short of the outstanding category in the middle group of quarterbacks.

Throwing ability, as a matter of fact, is the only department in which Lamonica is rated significantly above average. The most damaging marks are in leadership, in which the former Notre Dame star is rated only 2.5, and in reading defenses, in which Lamonica is rated 3.

The scouts ratings explain, in part, the heroics old George Blanda has been called on to perform for the Raiders over the past two years.

The ratings also can't help leave people wondering how Lamonica would be rated if the embellishments that enhance throwing ability were suddenly to emerge. But will they?
 

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