Sentences with phrase «bad teams into»

And turning bad teams into national contenders isn't easy, if it was everyone would do it.

Luck immediately turned the Colts from the league's worst team into a playoff contender; Griffin became a sensation while earning Offensive Rookie of the Year honors that season.

Not exact matches

A bad boss or team leader can turn a great job into the ninth circle of workplace hell.

Many of the CEOs and leadership teams I have worked with over the years have fallen into the same trap: they get overly focused on selling their company to a strategic or financial acquirer or worse, going public.

The worst missteps were former CEO Ron Johnson's focus in 2012 on a failed re-imagining of the 114 - year - old retailer into a hipper store, along with the ill - advised separation of Penney's e-commerce and stores teams, a strategy that flew in the face of every other retailer's efforts.

On a day like Friday, when a hurricane is coming, Warner said the Waffle House team gets its jump teams into position to prepare for the worst.

The sentiment seemed widespread on tech and media Twitter: there was a lack of specificity in terms of questions about privacy (this allowed Zuckerberg to turn nearly every question about the ownership of data to a discussion about user interface controls that limit where data is shown to other Facebook users), plenty of dodged questions (every time there was a question about the data Facebook generates about users beyond what they themselves enter into the system Zuckerberg needed to «check with his team»), and bad questions that presumed Facebook sells data, letting Zuckerberg run out the clock at least three times by explaining the basics of Facebook's business model (this is precisely why I have been so outspoken about the problem of perpetrating this falsehood: it lets Facebook off the hook).

«He has promised a major set of changes to what he has described as the worst agreement ever negotiated, and now it is up to his team to come up with fixes to transform the worst agreement ever into something the president could get behind.»

On a top level, Mike recommends monitoring live chat responses and building time into your team meetings to review the best and worst responses.

There is some bad news for Arsenal on the injury front, as the England international forward Theo Walcott is still not ready to come back into the team after picking up what was supposed to be just a minor calf problem in the Boxing Day win over West Brom.

Fans will continue been divided with others leaving, player unrest with most of them wanting out, our squad will actually become worse and we might turn into a mid table team.

All players have good and bad games when they first break into the first team.

More than just an anthropomorphic description to remind you that bad things happen to teams every year, though, this one might be baked into the modern sport.

And then keeping up the form instead of fading away into the team as a squad player (or worse, flopping) isn't even mentioned.

In fact, the last four players to win have been on teams with no worse than a No. 3 seed in their conference standings heading into the postseason.

Believe it or not, even if the Knicks were trapped in a sinkhole and disappeared into the earth, the Hawks fell through the time - space continuum and the Cavaliers didn't win another game, yet made the playoffs by default, there would still be three playoff teams in NBA history that had worse records.

So much to say about this: 1) The attitude: Are we the only top team to celebrate wins like an FA cup tie or a MANC team that had 2 - 3 players part of there XI not fit or not even available... we are AFC and as such should be coming into almost every match with a winning mentality and anything but a win seen as a bad result!Let's stop taking selfies and dressing room pictures as if we've just won a major trophy!!!

He must be wishing he hadn't at this point, not because the team is necessarily bad but because Wenger is making the club into laughing stock by playing Welbeck and Bellerin in front of him and Kolasinac in a big match, and leaving the transfer business for the last day.

That translates into a team that, in the words of one AL scout, will be «very, very bad.»

many fans like my mate abowe like to live in a bubble (save zone) where everything can be alright, as long as you change your perspective into something more fitting, like mehh, there are always teams who are worse, rather then thinking, there are to many teams who are better then us, and i want to be there where they are and even beat them

Other possible variables that could impact wins / losses could be: a) back to back games, several games in row (e.g. 4 games in 7 days), or just the opposite (days of rest), b) Forward injuries, games where Hanzal played, or Roussel played, or Dickinson, etc. c) Goalie save percentage, good game or bad game by the goalie, d) Home games v Away games, e) Other d - men injuries, f) Team confidence — break the season into quarters as the team dynamics fluctuTeam confidence — break the season into quarters as the team dynamics fluctuteam dynamics fluctuate.

The gratitude has grown according to plan, evolving into expectation, none of which involves a bad AFC South franchise and illogical «rivalries» with teams in Nashville and Indianapolis.

Did he not start gabriel and koscielny along with our RB who can walk into most teams who also did not play as bad as people say?

If you're looking for more of a basketball answer than «shit happens,» the late season offensive struggles were predicated on Angola going into a bad shooting slump, and some combination of ACC teams being very familiar with Mann's driving game and him losing his explosiveness to injuries.

The documentary also touches on such ABA characters as beefcake forward Wendell Ladner and Marvin (Bad News) Barnes, who once said of a team flight that was to cross into a more westerly time zone and thus arrive earlier than it left, «I'm not getting on any time machine.»

Can someone name any Arsenal player who went into another team and looked irreplaceable?Just look at how Arsenal fans are hyping this guy.I won't blame you people though.People are even saying we need up to three players to replace him.I guess it will take about seven to eight to replace Messi or Ronaldo then.We've become so bad it's almost as if we've lost our big club mentality and way of thinking.We are behaving like the smaller teams.

A defense - heavy, shooting - poor team went out into free agency and signed Rajon Rondo and Dwyane Wade, two of the worst shooters at the guard positions in the entire league.

«He is going into a similar situation, the first player picked, a team statistically the worst in the league,» Smith said.

Danny is a 15 minute player, after 15 minutes of each game he just disappears and all he does is run, close down, lose passes, he just does not give much as a striker, we down talk Giroud but he gives us more than danny, he will work hard, assist, score sometimes and bring this team mates into play... Welbeck has got the worst link up play ever, his first touch is so bad, whenever the ball gets to him we know it won't stick and that means he will be chasing down the ball due to his poor first touch.

You can try to bring all Barcelona midfielders like Busquets, Rakitic, and Iniesta into our team, we will not dominate and will still produce bad passes.

Okay not bad for this evening, if this team cant turn over Zagreb at Home then we deserve to go into the Europa League which is by no means a cert that we are going to win if we go into it through 3rd place.

i hate to be the bearer of bad news but you really need to wake up if you dreaming, no offence mate cos i for one will also be happy to see those names and even more in the squad but that potato head and the members of the board who are driven by the money that come into their pockets won't even dare spending so much to make the team contenders again

I don't know if it's just me, but the Williams and Haas car reveals show that with teams able to integrate the Halo properly into the car design, it doesn't look as bad as was feared.

The team is one of the worst in the history of F1, not just because the car wasn't particularly great, but because the team was so badly operated that the FIA eventually banned them for bringing the sport into disrepute.

Arsene Wenger has seen his Arsenal team lose four away games in a row for the first time ever under his reign, and so this is yet another bad time for the Gunners to go straight away into another away game, this time at Middlesbrough on Monday.

I do nt know... WC is Ronaldo, Messi — yeah they have their bad days but they do nt go missing as often and esp not when you need them the most... i like Ozil — he has alot of Talent — but he really needs to put more effort into it... Ozil needs to win us some big games (Man U, Bayern etc), not just be MOTM on a game against a lower league team...

4 new signings probably don't gel that quick to turn Arsenal back into the invicibles and even if the quality was there EVERY team has a 1 off bad day once in a while.

I heard some funny things from our fans saying that him and Ozil being in the same team will be bad and that he's lazy.It's a shame that our club has turned into this.Can someone name a season where a team lost the title because of a player's laziness.Even in the csse of Arsenal no one has ever blamed us for not winning the title due to any player's laziness.The thing is about looking at the bigger picture.You need to look at whether the players in team are playing to their strengths.That's the most important thing.If Ozil played to his strength no one would mention anything about laziness.I hope we sign Riyad Mahrez.

There's bad news for teams coming into Seattle.

Chambers - Paid a lot of money for a young player with little experience in regards First Team and Premiership games.He looked a good prospect and because of injuries to the squad he found himself playing very soon into his Arsenal career.This caught up with him a bit as did playing with different CB partners and filling in at full back.Form dipped and was out of the side till a year long loan move to Boro.He was playing every week and despite them going down he was one of their best and consistent players.He has been indifferent since coming back but has looked better in last few games he has played.I believe there is a very decent centre back in this player and would not describe him as a bad buy at all.

Prospects sell books and internet subscriptions, and the trading deadline for bad teams has turned into a million rabid fans screaming, «SHOW US THE FUTURE, BECAUSE THE PRESENT IS BUMMING ME OUT.»

Watching a victorious team pile up points can be a thrilling experience; however, sportsbooks understand this tendency and shade their lines to force bettors into taking bad lines when playing the popular side of a game.

If it is not a referee like Mike Dean denying Arsenal two good penalty shouts and forcing us into an FA cup replay that we could really do without, it is a Champions League draw throwing us up against one of the big favourites Bayern Munich in the group stage and then the only team worse than the Germans in the knockout stage.

I think Letestu has been pretty bad in his last 10 or so games here and I don't put any stock into his playoff games last year with an Edmonton team that was on a roll.

Around this time of the season, the Premier League tends to divide into three parts: the Good Teams, who are all shuffling around the European places; the Bad Teams, who are all scrapping around the relegation zone, and the Mid-Table, a strange place where nothing much seems to matter anymore.

In previous years, this might have mushroomed into a bigger issue, and the timing couldn't have been much worse with just a week to go in the regular season for a playoff - bound team.

It is bad news for Lucas and Arsenal, but will this help Giroud to get back into the first team on a regular basis?

The bad blood between the two teams all started during the top of the 6th inning with Hernandez and the Braves» Chris Johnson getting into a yelling match.

True, he couldn't get it done vs. SC & Bama in «16, when our OL was just overrun, and I don't know WHAT the hell kind of weird food poisoning the whole team (coaches included) got into before ASU last year, but if we're talking only 3 losses over two years attributable to «bad, or non-clutch QB play» — if you want to call it that, then is that really such a «bad» track record?

Ramsey has had one good season for us since his horrible injury, he needlessly gives the ball away much too often and his finishing is even worse than Giroud's... once again we have fallen in love with the idea of what could have been... Ramsey has only scored 2 meaningful goals in his entire Arsenal tenure: one in Turkey and the other in last year's FA Cup, which is not near enough to make him a centerpiece of this offence... likewise simply his presence on the team sheet has led Wenger into making horrible tactical blunders because he will force Ramsey into the lineup even when it doesn't make sense... just think of all those games when Ramsey was played out wide on the right, which forced the RB to come up into the play far more often, and deeper, because Ramsey invariably would find himself in a more central position leaving us far more vulnerable to the counterattack..