They scatter receivers, running backs and tight ends all over the field to create passing game mismatches: the 6-foot-4 Marques Colston against a tiny cornerback, tight end Jeremy Shockey against a linebacker, or the sprinter Devery Henderson against a slow-to-react safety.
Marques' fight against regime-corruption and embezzlement of funds inspires reporters in other African countries bedeviled by state corruption, including Nigeria, Uganda, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Guinea Bissau, DR Congo and many other African countries.
His decision to file criminal complaints against the generals for their "moral responsibility" in the affair led them and their associates to bring a libel suit against Marques in Portugal, Angola's former colonial ruler.
Finally, and most critically, Mercedes has been smart to make its C-Class cars even more cost competitive against marques like Lexus and Acura as well as Infiniti.
The case against Marques has shed unwanted international attention on the former Portuguese colony, which only emerged from a nearly three-decade civil war in 2002.
Seven of the generals, along with board members of the mining companies ITM Mining and Sociedade Mineira do Cuango, fired back with lawsuits against Marques de Morais in Angola and in the courts of Angola's colonial ruler, Portugal, where the book was published.
But it is the two premium marques that Audi competes against, Mercedes-Benz and BMW, that feel most threatened by the commission's plans.
Dublin city councillor Christy Burke, whose constituency includes Mountjoy Square, has previously confronted drug dealers as part of a name-and-shame campaign in the 1980s and he threatened similar tactics against Mr Marques.
Marques de Morais filed crimes against humanity charges against the seven Angolan generals as a result of his investigation, but is now being counter-sued for $1.6m.
The 22-year-old took Britain's final medal of these Games after a thrilling finish against Brazil's Yane Marques in the Greenwich Arena.
