Sentences with phrase «big yardage»

Hail the «impact player,» NFL lingo for the little speedster who can amass big yardage running, catching passes and returning kicks

Landing Muschamp was a coup for the Tigers, who have the talent but gave up big yardage totals to their best opponents.

During Wednesday's film session, he watched Virginia Tech's successful blitz pick - up, including a third - down screen breaking for big yardage.

The animus continues into crunch time, and mistakes start happening: coverages blown for big yardage on do - or - die downs, an interception and, crucially, balls dropped on conversions of the two TDs the Mobb is only able to put up in their four second - half possessions.

All the same, he allows, «Most were for big yardage, leading to scoring drives.»

The Falcons tackled, negating Rams potential, fancy run - after - catch plays and big yardage gains after contact, both Rams offensive staples.

Most of the best teams are featuring a stampede attack, and almost every club has at least one runner capable of big yardage

For the most part, only elite runners have been able to gash Green Bay for big yardage.

Not exact matches

S&P + ranking has been dragged down by niggling issues and situational breakdowns: awful short yardage execution (101st in power success rate) and too many big plays on passing downs (107th in passing downs explosiveness).

They picked up big chunks of yardage..

Since getting only 15 carries in an early - season rout of Appalachian State, he's brought his lunch pail to Clemson's biggest showdowns and gained triple - digit yardage in every matchup against bowl - eligible opponents since.

ince getting only 15 carries in an early - season rout of Appalachian State, he's brought his lunch pail to Clemson's biggest showdowns and gained triple - digit yardage in every matchup against bowl - eligible opponents since.

On offense, the 5 - foot - 8 running back was able to grind out key yardage on the ground and made some big catches, including a game - extending 24 - yard reception in the fourth quarter when Bellarmine faced a 4th - and - 12 on Folsom's 39 - yard line.

Now, a lot of the yardage was housed in big plays — Perine's Opportunity Rate was still only 41 percent while Ross» was 38 percent — and the passing game wasn't incredible (Trevor Knight: 7.1 yards per pass attempt).

I'm terribly torn on this one, as I am a big fan of both Bryon and Hernandez, and one fact remains, we have to improve our lines, most assuredly dline as we can't have RB's being able to gain yardage as easily as they have on us, and conversely opposing QB's having time to hit their 3rd or even later choices, and expect to be in games throughout the season.

Coaches, as we know, are notorious copiers, and pretty soon they were all looking for that someone, a big guy with decent hands and a willingness to trade rushing yardage for collisions.

Take off for the first down or a big chunk of yardage.

Meanwhile, the visiting Broncos are coming off a big 45 - 35 victory over Ball State and possess the 11th best passing offense in the nation in terms of yardage.

Despite the records and the yardage piled up, Morris says Brown, who is big in stature at 6 - foot and 190 pounds with bursting 4.3 speed, has stayed humbled by his past and by his mentors.

Big Ben was the co-leader in passing yards last season, has arguably the best wide receiver in football (Antonio Brown), and should rack up massive yardage in the first two games of the season with running back Le'Veon Bell suspended.

It's not for lack of trying, but they just don't win close games because short yardage, getting stops on third downs and coming up with big late - game turnovers just haven't been the team's forte in recent years.

Smith also made a big tackle on special teams, and stoned big Bo Scarbrough on a short yardage third down pass play.

As Jeff Ghim walked up the 18th fairway at Augusta National with a smile bigger than Texas, friends shouted, «Great yardage!»

They are rather risky, as the receiver exposes his body which could naturally open them up to bigger hits, and on top of that there is also nearly no opportunity to add additional yardage after the catch.

Some pass plays are good for getting small chunks of yardage while others give players a chance to hit the long pass for a big play.