Sentences with phrase «defensive back with»

Minnesota then trades up again, sacrificing No. 218 to move up 17 spots for Harris, a defensive back with great size who could develop into a starter at cornerback or safety.

Vincent, a former Pro Bowl defensive back with the Philadelphia Eagles, also said on the phone call that the light suspension would be due to the fact that the NFL's newly enacted personal conduct policy wouldn't apply to Peterson.

Their return basically means IU returns 11 defensive backs with decent experience.

Benjamin can be a throwback wide receiver who intimidates defensive backs with his ability to go up and catch the ball and with his physicality in the run game when he wants to.

Though speed isn't everything when it comes to a cornerback, NFL coaches and scouts like to see defensive backs with excellent speed.

Many of his touchdowns at OSU — you can watch a supercut here — featured him burning defensive backs with straight - line speed or running far away from them after the catch.

Pro Football Focus had 35 defensive backs with overall grades of 85 or above.

Not exact matches

In the introduction to a series that will look back at the events leading up to the election, Silver seems on the defensive somewhat, justifying his analysis of the poll results and pointing out that he predicted Clinton would be weak with the Electoral College and that Trump might prevail.

With a slightly higher price than Netflix and the requirement of having an existing connection, Shomi looks like a defensive effort for now, rather than an aggressive attempt to push back Netflix's encroachment.

Collins has adopted a more defensive position in the last 18 months, reducing duration and credit risk by scaling back overweight positions in high - yield and municipal bonds, but he's sticking with allocations to intermediate term funds.

Bitcoin was back on the defensive Thursday, as prices dropped below $ 10,000 after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said digital asset exchanges must register with the agency to trade so - called security tokens.

I will put Cobb back on the defensive by saying that I fail to see how the model of an all - encompassing, regionally inclusive experience is compatible with the hiddenness of competing drives, aspirations and fears which psychoanalysis reveals in the» «depth» dimension of the psyche,» by which term I mean something broader than the unified experience of the analogue to the «soul,» namely, the restless depths of the complex societies which support the regnant nexus and which have a «life» of their own, which is in some instances incorporated into, melded into the conscious experience of the occasions in the regnant society, and sometimes is not.

Then, when you come back, the constructive criticisms will surface as such, and you can respond with openness and grace instead of getting defensive.

Even if they come back with «only girls bake» or whatever, you've already put them on the defensive and shown you don't care about what they just said.

Played in midfield against Besiktas, but should be moved back into the defensive three to help cope with City's attacking threat.

Seen through the eyes of Wenger he just spends a boat load of money on Xhaka and with playing 3 at the back we will be playing with 5 defenders if you include the wingbacks, add Xhaka (or Coq or Elneney) and you have 6 defensive minded players, leaving 4 attackers.

While it is clearly the defensive side of things that matters most to our France international centre back, Laurent Koscielny has been lavishing praise on the way the whole team has been working to deny our opponents and he feels that a lot of the work is done with the way we have been starting games.

Walcott is on 19 goals, but because of defensive frailties he has to move Oxlade back out there, he even knew this seasons ago as he done the same with Ramsey.

With 3 at the back we don't need a traditional defensive midfielder, we need a box to box midfielder with strong defensive action who can link defence and attack and start the play from deep on the fiWith 3 at the back we don't need a traditional defensive midfielder, we need a box to box midfielder with strong defensive action who can link defence and attack and start the play from deep on the fiwith strong defensive action who can link defence and attack and start the play from deep on the field.

If we need every player on the pitch to work hard in the defense, there is something groundbreakingly wrong with our back four and defensive midfield.

No CB would solve our problems.People seem to think the signing of Van Dijk will solve our problems.I'll be back here to remind us next season that we need another defender.The system, combinations and mentality is what is wrong with Arsenal.I can see it being overlooked this season too.All we needed this season was a striker, a midfielder who's a defensive and attacking hybrid and possibly one luxury signing.

Jabrill Peppers wants to be the next Charles Woodson for Michigan, and with the athletic ability the Paramus Catholic defensive back...

Though England are currently well equipped at centre back, and Rovers boss Sam Allardyce believes that will eventually become Jones» permanent position, there is certainly a void in defensive midfield that Jones could well fill — especially with poor Owen Hargreaves having suffered another setback.

We are in a defensive crisis tomorrow, Monreal is not fit for tomorrow but will be for Saturday, Chambers is 50/50 with tonsillitis and obviously Debuchy is injured... If Chambers can't play then I expect the back four to be: Bellerin Mert Kos Gibbs

While Mandanda's statement means Liverpool will need to soldier on with Mignolet between the sticks for the time being, of more pressing concern for Jurgen Klopp is the shortage of fit centre - backs, with the Reds facing a defensive crisis following the bruising encounter with Stoke City [Daily Star].

Moves to bring in a fresh defensive option should help Arsenal's push to secure a top four finish with Wenger's squad at times being stretched at the back.

The best formation Arsenal could have in defence and attack would be three at the back, three man midfield of a world class defensive mid, Xhaka and Ramsey just in front with Sanchez and buy a world class striker (maybe Costa from Chelsea).

Their form in recent weeks has suggested that they are well on the way to doing so, and with Van Dijk now offering defensive solidity and organisation at the back, they'll hope to pair that defensive improvement with the irresistible attacking threat of star quartet Philippe Coutinho, Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino.

We do have some good news with the return of our summer signing Shkodran Mustafi who comes staright back in to renew his central defensive pairing with Koscielny.

Our more recent 3 at the back shape has produced largely good results — so why not go one small step further with defensive paring in mid-field.

It's been eight years and 20 matches since Arsenal and Tottenham ended goalless and with a number of injury doubts concerning key defensive players such as Shkodran Mustafi (Thigh), Hugo Lloris (Groin) and Toby Alderweireld (Hamstring), Arsene Wenger and Mauricio Pochettino may have to reshuffle their back - lines presenting a potentially open North London derby.

Our lack of defensive experience could well pose as a problem however, with Calum Chambers, Rob Holding, Nacho Monreal, Maitland - Niles, Sead Kolasinac and Mo Elneny our only available stars for the three central roles and left - sided wing - back role.

On the warm afternoon of Labor Day, five days before Nebraska would open its football season with a 55 - 14 pasting of Michigan State, Cornhuskers junior defensive end Grant Wistrom paused as he left the practice field in Lincoln and pondered the ribbon of greatness that stretched back over two years.

Spurs appear to be on the lookout for back - up defensive options with reports at the weekend claiming Pochettino was also targeting FC Koln defender Kevin Wimmer.

I beg to differ with you, Coquelin is what i call a true DM he protects the back four by breaking up attacks, Xhaka is more a deep lying playmaker which has to take on other duties of tackling in the defensive third.

Well it's done now...... but I'd hazard a guess he wanted an established central midfield partnership with strongest possible defensive qualities (Coquelin / Elneny) infront of an untried, young, emergency centre back pairing.

Coutinho is the real problem for me in that Liverpool team.He can destroy midfield strategies.That's why I worry when I see us with no DMF.Years back (14/15) I remember Coquelin back pocketing Coutinho yet it's likely Wenger will bench him for no reason.That guy has so much potential if only he's used wisely.He has the abilityto mark players out of a game and intercept many passes.I know many of you will call me stupid and say he's average but imagine if Coquelin was used in a very defensive sense.Being brilliant tactically is all about producing the best system with the players you have and clearly that's not what's happening.I already lose hope when I see Kolasinac and Bellerin at WB whsn clearly it doesn't suit them.WB's are so important in a 3 back but clearly we've ignored that.

I agree with the comments above about sometimes playing as a CDM to improve the defensive side of his game, but he can similarly execute the defensive side of his game when winning the ball back further up the field as well.

Werner is a polished pass rusher that would greatly help out the Giants defense with Jason Pierre - Paul and Mathias Kiwanuka, who is moving back to defensive end.

Kolasinac — don't know where but possibly defensive mid in front of back three with Xhaka.

Longtime defensive coordinator Chuck Amato retired, though he leaves his successor with a deep, exciting back seven.

Arsenal could do the same and play with 3 CB's, 2 «Wing Backs» and 2 Defensive mid's and i garantee you we will never concede that many goals.

Maguire's ability to link up with his central defensive partner Wes Morgan at the back for Leicester has seen them become one of the most defensively able sides outside the top six.

The Gunners may have sorted out most of their problems at the back and eventually started playing with a defensive midfielder in Francis Coquelin, but Olivier Giroud and Theo Walcott aren't really good enough up front to lead you to the title

Hazard scored a great second on the counter attack in the 53rd minute and we ended up with no defensive midfielder and Giroud, Welbeck, Alexis, Ozil, Iwobi and the Ox in friont of the back four.

Indianapolis Colts: Minkah Fitzpatrick, defensive back, Alabama My only complaint with this top five is that it underplays the hysteria around the quarterback position, but as one GM looking for a quarterback at the combine told me, there have been and will still be serious flaws in all of these players that people outside the NFL world don't seem to take into account.

At full back both Clichy and Bacary Sagna continued to be ambitious with their attacking runs, but now lacked the defensive support previously afforded to Arsenal by a flat midfield four — as a result Arsenal became particularly vulnerable down the flanks.

It begins most often with the defense's nickel personnel — five defensive backs — on the field with four down linemen and two linebackers in a 4 -2-5 configuration (although it can be run from various other sets).

The German World Cup winner Shkrodan Mustafi came to Arsenal in a fanfare as the saviour of our new defensive line up, and with Rob Holding and Calum Chambers waiting in the wings to replace our ageing back line the future looked rosy.

In»07 Spagnuolo rotated defensive ends Justin Tuck and Osi Umenyiora into the A gaps and linebackers Antonio Pierce and Kawika Mitchell to the edge, creating an even more daunting mismatch on the inside, with Tuck or Umenyiora on a running back or center.