Sentences with phrase «first scrimmage»

ATHENS — There were a lot of mini-revelations after Georgia's first scrimmage of the spring on Saturday.

«When Trey went down in the first scrimmage of the year, I knew I had to step up, and play a bigger role on this team.»

Our very first scrimmage was against Fort Hood, which had a lot of military kids, so those guys were always tough to play against.

Echoing basically what I thought after the first scrimmage.

Not exact matches

Did they not render almost every game a tedious scrimmage after the first 15 minutes?

He carried just 22 times for 95 yards in his first four games and lost a fumble against West Virginia, but he found his way in the glorified end - of - September scrimmage against Delaware State and maintained that rhythm.

Remember Abdullah's first run from scrimmage... big hole, then juked an opponent nearly out of his shoes, for a TD.

His 2,370 yards from scrimmage were the second most in an NFL season (Marshall Faulk had 2,430 with the St. Louis Rams in 1999), and he became the first player ever to rush for 1,000 yards and catch 100 passes in the same year.

They are currently first in the country in Stuff Rate (percentage of runs stopped behind the line of scrimmage).

After posting a 13 - 3 record in Jim Harbaugh's first season, the Niners» offense has taken great strides while their physical defense continues to dominate the line of scrimmage.

On the first play from scrimmage, he caught a pass and brought it 75 yards for a touchdown.

Pro football should consider some of Maule's suggestions to help out the offense, and the first on the list should be a move to return the ball to the line of scrimmage after a missed field - goal attempt.

He got his hands up at the line of scrimmage to knock down a Siemian pass late in the first quarter, and he had a nice tackle on Siemian for a 2 - yard gain when Denver was backed up in the third quarter.

Intercollegiate rules kept first - year students from playing varsity, so Trice worked out with the freshmen team, which played no games other than scrimmages against the varsity.

It was a smart move because Gronk showed in the first game that he could easily beat the jam at the line of scrimmage, leaving the corners in trail position.

At first, Britt did slide to his left, but he still tried to block the end man on the line of scrimmage to his right which happened to be Cardinals outside linebacker Alex Okafor.

Lacy and Yeldon were almost never touched in the backfield and didn't have to make their first move until past the line of scrimmage.

Throw out the Broncos first play from scrimmage, a miscommunication between Peyton Manning and his center that resulted in a safety.

And he looks over — you can watch it on the film — he looks over, and there's the first down marker at 7 yards [from the line of scrimmage], and he's at 8 yards — first down.

After his first season, in which he scored an incredible 19 touchdowns on 1,609 yards from scrimmage, The Sporting News and CBS Sports named Marcus the national college football freshman of the year.

Flybacks Lucas Baiocchi and Tyler Brendel, along with halfback Ben Smith, each had scoring runs in the Grizzlies» first 11 plays from scrimmage.

All this tweaking at the line of scrimmage and spacing raises the question: If football is going to be safer, and survive, is the battle in the trenches the first thing to go?

Last year he injured his knee in the first preseason scrimmage, underwent surgery and was out for the entire season.

Five of the game's first seven passes were thrown to targets behind the line of scrimmage (only three were completed), and neither team completed a pass farther than seven yards downfield until the second half.

We scrimmaged the Chicago Bears, and I got my first tasteof the pros.

When I first wrote about then Rutgers coach Greg Schiano's brilliant idea to replace kickoffs with scrimmage punts and onside kicks with all - or - nothing offensive plays, the bulk of respondents considered the idea batty.

James White was one of three tailbacks with over 100 yards; he finished with 205 yards on 20 carries, including a 93 - yard score on the game's first play from scrimmage.

They rushed for long first downs twice on their first touchdown drive in the second half and were able to dictate the line of scrimmage on the game - sealing drive.

Oregon's offense scored just once on its first four drives of the game; the Ducks had ceded control of the line of scrimmage to KSU for the most part, and after a misguided fake punt (an option to punter Jackson Rice, basically) failed, it really did look like KSU had taken complete control of the game.

According to a recent Florida 11 - on - 11 scrimmage, Malik Zaire, a former Notre Dame player, was the first quarterback out for the...

The first penalty came on the first play from scrimmage when Jorgensen, from his position on the sideline at the line of scrimmage, caught a Rams lineman jumping offside.

On the Knicks» first play from scrimmage Reed jumps from the top of the key and the shot goes in.

The very first play of that scrimmage, the ball was snapped, and I rolled out to the left.

The second stop was an impressive dive over the line of scrimmage on fourth down that came right after Burfict shoved the ref and almost gave up a free first down:

Daniels, a 5» 11», 181 - pound sophomore who scored a touchdown on his first play from scrimmage at Indianapolis's Bishop Chatard High in 1995, caught a 64 - yard touchdown pass against Navy on Sept. 18 on his first collegiate reception.

By that time Miami's offense had joined the ranks of the one - dimensional, and Torretta's first play from scrimmage in the second half had a familiar look to Johnson.»

The first play from scrimmage in the Super Bowl was a snap that went past the head of Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and resulted in a safety that gave the Seahawks a 2 - 0 lead.

Their back, Jason Frabassile, fumbled on the initial play from scrimmage — the first of four Rowan turnovers.

Billy averaged 5 1/2 yards a carry, gaining 583 yards from scrimmage, and led the conference in kickoff returns, but he is the first to admit that there was an awful lot he needed to learn about playing football.

Van Brocklin called the play five times in the huddle in the first half, only to change it at the line of scrimmage against an unpropitious Giant defense.

Georgia star running back Nick Chubb suffered a gruesome - looking injury Saturday on the Bulldogs» first play from scrimmage against rival... more

During the open training, the first team scrimmaged against a gaggle of players who will likely make up the roster for Atlanta United 2, its USL affiliate that will play games in Gwinnett County this season.

Michigan's held its first public scrimmage on Saturday, as 57,418 spectators at Michigan Stadium saw the Maize team beat the Blue team 31 - 29.