1.   After years of being in the shadow of the outside linebacker, the middle linebacker is making a comeback, led by Baltimore Raven Ray Lewis.

2.   I get to do all the dirty work, take on the pulling guards so the inside linebackers can make the plays.

3.   No Cowboys linebacker has made more than that in one season.

4.   One of the first things Rhodes did was change the scheme, which asked linemen to hold up blockers, while the linebackers made the play.

5.   Pittsburgh is one of the few teams that uses the alignment that former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor made his Hall of Fame plays from.

6.   The late Chiefs linebacker made plenty but spent plenty more, and now all his belongings have been sold off to help support his children.

7.   The recovery was made by linebacker Ron George.

8.   There, in the left flat, was Brown, in the open field against a running back, the play a linebacker absolutely must make in pro football.

9.   Under the scheme Patterson brought from Minnesota, undersized defensive linemen and small, quick linebackers make tackles from sideline to sideline.

10.   Watching the scene unfold, I felt the same annoyance as when a linebacker makes a tackle and then breaks into a dance over his victim.