Sentences with phrase «season as another rookie»

Anecdotes on how the pain of losing seasons as a rookie built the resilience to take risks and overcome fear necessary to become a champion.

But No. 40 for a guy that might be banished to the bench this year and wasn't that great in the regular season as a rookie is a bit aggressive.

WORST The Jets, sending quarterback Richard Todd to New Or leans for a No. 1, thereby leaving themselves with one QB, Pat Ryan, who has never started an NFL game and a projected starter, Ken O'Brien, who didn't play a down last season as a rookie.

Garoppolo appeared in three games last season as a rookie.

Not exact matches

In this film, we are introduced to three industrial lubricant salesman: Larry (played byKevin Spacey), a brash, but honest veteran of sales; Phil (played by Danny Devito), Larry's friend and a seasoned, yet life - weary salesman; and Bob (played by PeterFacinelli), a young evangelical Christian who, as a rookie in sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade show.

Brayden Point scored Tampa Bay's lone goal against Calgary, giving him 40 points (17g, 23a) this season, matching his total as a rookie last season.

The truly interesting thing about the new era is that teams can structure their payrolls any way they want, as long as they pay every player at least the league minimum ($ 100,000 for rookies this season, $ 125,000 for players with a year's service, $ 150,000 for two or more years) and stay under the cap.

But Morris, who reached the NIT finals last spring in his rookie season as a Division I men's coach, is glad that 6» 6» sophomore forward Lionel Simmons did.

The 5» 11», 231 - pound Lewis has always been talented — he ran for a team - record 1,364 yards as a rookie, on Baltimore's 2000 Super Bowl championship team, and for another 1,327 last season after missing all of 2001 with a torn left ACL — but now he's downright scary.

Outspoken as always, the American League Manager of the Year is extraordinarily candid about the team he rescued from the bone pile and made respectable in his rookie season with the Washington Senators.

Lamp likely would of had a great rookie season if he stayed healthy just as well.

They didn't fly out of the gates, as is the case, with many Rookie Teams, but as the Regular Season progressed you could see they had all the makings of a great Team..

They are going to get the Rookies Team Weisel in Week 2 and it will serve as a nice barometer for both Teams as squads are jockeying for position early in the season..

As a rookie, he was thrust into the starting lineup when Mark Sanchez went down with a shoulder injury before the season began.

A guy who has played in two Air Raid systems, couldn't beat out Pat Mahomes for the starting job, and comes from the same school as Jared Goff (who had a disastrous rookie season).

There are plenty of reasons why Kansas City is in the playoffs for the first time in four seasons: the maturation of second - year coach Todd Haley, who was the offensive coordinator for Arizona when it reached the Super Bowl; the addition of respected coordinators Romeo Crennel (defense) and Charlie Weis (offense), who won Super Bowls as assistants with New England; the NFL's best running game; a solid defense; and extensive contributions by a deep rookie class.

All eyes will be on rookie quarterback Blake Bortles as he looks to lead his struggling squad to its second win of the season and prove he's the man for the job.

RUNNING BACK NICK GOINGS retired from the Panthers after 2008 and defensive end Kenwin Cummings joined the Jets as a rookie in» 09, so when the teams played each other in Week 12 of that season, America just missed the collision of Cummings and Goings, because Goings was going as Cummings was coming.

Harkless is a young swingman with promise who averaged 8.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game as a rookie last season.

Granted, Douglas had his share of flops, but he was a rookie thrusted into the fire and I actually thought he showed a lot of growth as the season went along and stepped up pretty well in most situations.

Blackmon totaled 64 receptions for 865 yards and five touchdowns as a rookie, coming into his own during the second half of the season.

As a rookie last season Blanks was fourth in the AFL in rushing with a 5.2 average for 756 yards and was seventh in receiving.

The song was Jump, by Van Halen, and the Jets would probably sign David Lee Roth to sing it if they thought it would help Sanchez navigate the season's rough patches more smoothly than he did as a rookie.

With Lynch on the shelf since Week 10 and rookie running back Thomas Rawls going down with a season - ending injury as well, the onus fell on Wilson to carry the Seahawks offense to the postseason.

As the World Series was unfolding at the SkyDome, Jeff Conine, a leftfielder who has just completed his rookie season with the Florida Marlins, and his wife, Cindy, were in the midst of a semifinal mixed - doubles match at the U.S. Racquetball Doubles Championships in Phoenix.

In fact, the Maple Leafs rookies were their best players — as they have been all season.

As his Nuggets (2 - 31 at week's end) stumble toward the NBA record for ineptitude, held by the 76ers of 1972 - 73 (who went 9 - 73), Bill Hanzlik can take solace in the fact that a number of distinguished coaches also endured rocky rookie seasons.

After finishing his rookie season with a 76.6 passer rating, a jump was expected in his second year, but a 102.4 rating through three games certainly qualifies as overachieving.

Eric Watts, who took his lumps last season as the quarterback for a 2 - 9 Louisville team, is now a rookie on the World Championship Wrestling circuit.

His numbers jumped from only six combined tackles as a rookie to 47 combined tackles last season.

I'd love to see the Bulls have two excellent role players on rookie contracts as they acquire two to three superstars (via draft or FA) in the next few seasons.

I'd be surprised if Tyrod doesn't have the best season of his career with the supporting cast afforded to him along with a rookie QBOTF as added fuel to up his performance.

Martin's 235 yards on Sunday doesn't represent his career best, as he managed to pick up 251 yards in a game against the Oakland Raiders in his rookie season.

HOCKEY Montreal Canadiens kept lead in National Hockey League as Rookie Henri Richardrapped two goals in 6 - 0 whitewash of Chicago Black Hawks after Boston Bruinshanded Canadiens first loss of season 3 - 2.

It is all well and good that Mariucci's squad went 13 - 3 in his rookie season as an NFL coach, and bully for him for winning his first playoff game.

I thought he showed a lot of promise as a rookie and then stagnated a bit last season.

Former Raiders and Rams linebacker Mike Jones recalls Raiders fans in the Bay Area coming to see him play for the Sacramento Surge in the World League right after his innocuous first season as an undrafted rookie... three years before the team moved back to Oakland.

If Prescott can be even better in his second season than he was as a rookie, and keep Dallas on track without Elliott, he could get the honor.

With the Chargers he sat behind Doug Flutie as a rookie, then beat out Flutie in» 02, but that only put him on a roller coaster that included four benchings in two seasons.

In the midst of this historic season, Elliott is being discussed as a shoe - in for Offensive Rookie of the Year, but is he also a legitimate MVP candidate?

Elliott opened the season as the odds - on favorite -LRB--140) to be named Offensive Rookie of the Year, but he struggled, at least comparatively, in the early going.

Last season Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott opened as a 500/1 longshot to be named Offensive Rookie of the Year at 5Dimes.

Nowadays 20 - year - old Byron and 24 - year - old Wallace, who will vie for Rookie of the Year honors this season, are as known as some of the veterans they'll be racing against on a weekly basis.

Jones made 108 tackles as a rookie last season and reached the Super Bowl, and followed that with 138 tackles this season to go with another playoff showing.

Ray Perkins spent most of last year, his rookie season as Alabama's coach, trying to convince people that he didn't feel any pressure after stepping into the territory that for 25 years had been Bear Bryant's domain.

Do you ever hear / see any other team, especially championship - caliber ones, talk about hoarding their compensatory picks and / or saving salary cap room for rookie pools and in - season injury windfalls as reasons to not be active in free agency?

In his rookie season, Hield is averaging 8.6 points per game on 36.4 percent shooting from downtown and has shown flashes of potentially becoming a dynamic perimeter scorer as his career progresses.

Only MJ, Wilt, Oscar, Harden, Lebron, Russ, and Magic have ever equaled or exceeded those totals in any season, and only Oscar was able to do it as a rookie.

The basketball world has judged Okafor harshly, labeling him as a delinquent after a series of off - court incidents as a rookie and a bust following two seasons of neglectful defense and injuries.

Though instability followed Thorpe into the NBA — the Kings moved from Kansas City to Sacramento after his rookie season — by his fourth year in the league he had established himself as a premier power forward, averaging 20.8 points and 10.2 rebounds in 1987 - 88.