Sentences with phrase «defense than our offense»

I'm more worried about our defense than our offense.

There are plenty of players who are better on defense than offense (Rudy Gobert, etc.) that are MORE than worth the No. 4 overall pick.

Greene's backup Bilal Powell is inactive, and Joe McKnight has been playing more defense than offense, though he appeared in the backfield later in the drive, which resulted in a touchdown from Mark Sanchez to Dustin Keller.

Keylor Navas made an easy save, but the opening salvo belonged to the team more regarded for their defense than their offense.

Not exact matches

This helps me to make sure I'm playing more offense than defense.

The logic: Purdue has been one of my favorite teams to watch in college football this season, with a sparky offense and better - than - expected defense capable of getting a stop when the moment calls.

Seattle's defense played heroically as they helped the Seahawks win last week despite having more penalty yards than total yards on offense.

Good defense is more important than good offense not just on the football field, but on the investing field as well.

For example, Balin and Haddon explain why you should play offense rather than defense.

And today, rather than playing defense, American seminaries like Mundelein in Chicago are exploring how the Church might go on offense — not in an offensive way, but by developing new models of a 21st - century apologetics that invites disenchanted post-moderns to experience the divine mercy and come to know the truths to which that experience leads.

It is unfair, but the hapless offense has forced the defense to be even better than expected.

Georgia was already the league's least - stable elite squad in 2012, with better - than - normal offense and worse - than - normal defense.

Still, since Venables left town, OU's defense has ranked above its offense in S&P + just once and hasn't ranked better than 19th.

And if the defense struggles, we've seen down the stretch that the offense is more than capable of scoring as many points as it needs to win.

Their Defense held the ZBT SO crew, familiar foes, to just 12 points and the Offense did more than enough to get an easy W. Captain Brent Rubin tossed 5 Touchdowns on Wednesday Night to 3 different receivers including Tristan Cooper and Skyler Tullman who each grabbed 2.

The people arguing against you believe this is a balanced team that the defense should only be asked to keep the opponent's score low allowing the high powered offense to do its job any more than that would be a bonus.

The most fun thing about lacrosse to me how organized both the offense and defense are — there's a lot more on - field chess than you will see in basketball.

Last year, the offense regressed more than I would have expected, but the defense surged.

As long as it has been since Florida had a good offense, it's been even longer since the Gators had a less - than - elite defense.

He should see plenty of action this fall because the defense isn't much better than the offense.

I would say center is the one position where defense is definitely more important than offense, though.

The Bulls have yet to score more than 100 points in the series and their top - notch defense hasn't been enough to stop Washington's streaky offense.

Things like overall record (without looking into if there is mitigating circumstances), Total defense (trash stat that doesn't take into account quality of offenses played), Total offense (same as total defense), scoring average (much less telling than points per possession), etc..

Happily for Cowboy Joe, he had no responsibilities when the Wyoming defense was on the field, for the defense was even better than the offense.

I think «two way player» should be reserved for the player who is better than league average on both defense and offense.

Meh it would be bad simply because Kos has a lot more to offer for us in defense than Benzema has in offense.

And the Chiefs offense torched a Patriots defense that gave up more than 400 yards in each of the first six games but just once in the next 10.

On one hand I understand why Arians went with Lindley over rookie Logan Thomas, because he would have to completely redesign his offense in less than a week to compete against arguably the best defense in football.

Bottom line for the Bears is that their offense has been strong and their defense has been better than expected, but they're in for a dogfight in a tough NFC North division.

Offense... check Defense... should be better than the last two years for sure

While Lewis is still a force on defense, his best contribution is recognizing formations and calling out the scheme, and many times, the actual play the opposing offense may be running and is more often right than wrong.

The line reflects that the oddsmakers believe more in Peyton Manning and the Denver offense than Richard Sherman and the Seattle defense.

Active and aggressive all evening, the future Hall of Fame stopped all 26 shots from a Panthers offense that, despite the lack of Jason Garrison, challenged the Devils defense with no less than six power - play opportunities on the night.

That said, the Panthers have shown a lot more attention to defense this offseason than offense.

They have a center who can run the offense and anchor the defense, a power forward who can guard point guards and centers and a backcourt that can drive, shoot threes better than any other and defend any of their peers.

If Cousins is able to bring more to the offense than Case Keenum did, and their defense plays up to their 2017 level, they'll be a Super Bowl contender.

While the Huskers had the better defense (they didn't allow more than 17 points in any other game), OU's offense was as good as it got in the 1970s.

Because of that, and because of the PSU offense's early inconsistency (and full - season inefficiency), the defense graded higher per S&P + (14th) than the offense (18th).

There's significantly more room for improvement on defense than on offense.

Each relies on a low - risk offense that does just enough to win, and neither defense has allowed more than 17 points in a game since Thanksgiving.

Similar athletic profile to Kirikenko, but with more offense n less defense than AK.

The Defense did it's job with more injured players than the offense who was going against a 30th ranked dDefense did it's job with more injured players than the offense who was going against a 30th ranked defensedefense.

Ohio's offense was basically the same against everybody, and the defense found slightly more success about bad teams than good.

I get the need for offensive creation (although Collins, Prince and Schroder are all significantly better on offense than defense, which is worth noting) but it's a tiebreaker, not a deciding factor IMO.

But he still has a ways to go before his offense is more impressive than his defense.

No one foresaw such a quick improvement from last year's 5 - 6 team — Saturday's win was the Irish's second this season over a ranked opponent — but even more surprising than the instant success is the manner in which it has come: not with a revamped offense but with a hard - hitting, opportunistic defense.

But the defense kept allowing more than the offense managed.

Players are more commonly injured on offense rather than defense, with running backs sustaining the most injuries, followed by lineman.

The defense was even worse than expected, and the offense slipped for once, too.

Why it makes sense: The defense has led the way in recent years for the Broncos, and while the team allowed way more points than usual in 2017, that was largely due to 34 turnovers by the Denver offense.