Sentences with phrase «better than a touchdown»

«A sack is better than a touchdown,» he said later, «but I was itching for the ball at the end.»

Not exact matches

Antonio Gates needs 1,300 yards to gain more yards than Alworth, but he will be remembered now for tying the touchdown record with one of the best in team history.

Finishing his time in San Diego with 9,584 receiving yards and 81 touchdowns — it would take more than 40 years for his record to be bested.

His interception numbers have been equivalent at best, and recurrently much worse, than his touchdowns.

When a QB throws more picks than touchdowns, it can't be a good year.

But he finished the game with five touchdowns — a much better showing than his zero touchdowns and five interceptions against the Jaguars in October.

it's a better nickname than anything else I've heard for JT, but I still want to see him on a Jonathan Taylor Thomas - style Tigerbeat poster that says Jonathan Taylor Touchdown.

After failing to do either of those things, they should've kept trying to score a touchdown, but instead opted to kick a field goal, giving the Cowboys an opportunity to win the game in better field position than they would've had if they failed on the fourth - down scoring attempt.

Nothing is more fun than closing out your night with good coaching, touchdowns, long plays, and general mayhem.

Alabama lost by a touchdown to Ohio State, the only team better than the Tide.

Sometime's it's better to be lucky than good as the Redskins and Robert Griffin III learned when they scored their first touchdown during Monday Night Football against the Giants.

His 90.7 passer rating was better than he had done in his previous two campaigns and his 16:4 touchdown to interception ratio wasn't too shabby either.

Additionally, Jones has better than a 50 % chance of scoring a touchdown with -140 odds of reaching the end zone tonight.

The best answer to the question of why have Poe attempt a touchdown with a 17 - point lead and less than two minutes to play is another question.

Though the Huskersgave up three 80 - yard touchdown drives, their defense, with the likes of LBCody Glenn, should be better than last year's.

Though Morris» touchdown production (7) was less than optimal, he still finished the season as the 14th best fantasy running back.

Ball in particular has been outstanding in this regard; his plus - 43.9 Adj. POE is more than a touchdown better than the No. 2 guy, Richardson.

That's more rushing touchdowns than Rashaad Penny, Lamar Jackson, Bryce Love, Ronald Jones and, well, actually everyone but FAU's Singletary (29) had in 2017.

the Panthers with 958 yards in 164 carries; he was carrying a heavy load of over 20 carries per game and averaging almost six yards per carry, and he was 23rd in the country with a +13.0 Adj. POE, meaning he was a good two touchdowns better than an average running back in the carries he had received.

For a guy who has never completed 62 % of his passes in a season and neverbeen better than plus - three in touchdown - interception differential, those arepretty good signs.

Against a Georgia Tech better than its record (before Saturday, anyway), Clemson outgained the Yellow Jackets by a 537 - 230 margin, destroying the Tech option attack, jumping out to a 33 - 10 halftime lead, and cruising to 40 - 10 before a fumble recovery touchdown and garbage time drive.

However, there is a good chance that seeing 75 percent of his touchdown production for 2014 in one game could definitely skew my evaluation of him into a more positive light than other evaluators currently have him.

Pretty damn good teams lose OOC game by less than a touchdown.

Now, I obviously think Julio is a better all around player than Heyward given that hitting is a disproportionately larger part of being a baseball player than scoring touchdowns is for receivers.

I would like for Julio to find his way to beat coverage and be a good target in the end zone on plays that start in the red zone (the way other WR1s are), because that would vastly improve the Falcons chances of scoring touchdowns to him and to everybody else, but I've moved on from assuming the problem lies with somebody other than Julio.

Geno Smith has been the best player in the country for the first five weeks of the season, and last week threw for more touchdowns — eight — than incompletions (six).

Of course Louisville is better than most thought they'd be, but I don't know if there's been a touchdown difference over the first few games.

And nowhere was he better than down the stretch, finishing 16 - of - 16 for 188 yards, including three touchdowns, nine first downs, and the game - winner.