Sentences with phrase «get to the quarterback off»

Not exact matches

When the two quarterbacks face off on Sunday, they may have a laugh at the respective paths that got them to the brink of a Super Bowl.

As the NFL season kicks off this week, football fans have an even bigger problem to worry about than their favorite quarterback getting injured: a nationwide chicken wing shortage.

Of course what makes these guys so dangerous is that even though they work well off each other at times, they don't actually need any help getting to the quarterback.

That protection should have been good enough for Houston quarterback TJ Yates to get the throw off.

• Will the system he gets drafted into give him similar comfort, allowing him to do some next - level quarterbacking (we see one particular instance where he looks off a linebacker just like Russell Wilson might).

Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield gestured for some members of the crowd to get louder before running off the field, but it wasn't clear who he was imploring.

The Patriots quarterback fiercely protects his off - field image, but through the eyes of former teammates, coaches and others close to him we get a glimpse of the real Tom Brady — part relentless competitor, part «regular dude»

There were several times when I was just sure Conklin was going to get beat around the edge at the beginning of the play, but somehow he almost always recovered to keep the rusher off his quarterback.

As a matter of fact, that's exactly why this week, I think it's the Colts that have to get two picks off of my former college teammate and fellow Vol For Life Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, probably the second greatest Tennessee player that ever lived behind the deceased Reggie White, may he rest in peace.

So let me get this straight, this Bacarri Rambo kid picks off the greatest quarterback of our generation twice last Sunday en route to indisputably the most surprising upset of the day, but he wasn't good enough for Washington's secondary?!

It's better to be lucky than good at times, but if you take away the sack he got when he was unblocked and the one he got off a quarterback scramble, that means only three of those seven sacks came when he beat an offensive lineman with a pass rush move.

Last week, I said if the Bengals wanted to beat the Colts, they had to get at least two picks off Colts quarterback Andrew Luck.

It's probably because of those years of hard work on his skill and technique, repping and drilling it over and over, that he still has the kind of incredible muscle memory to come in off the street and get right to work kicking offensive linemen's asses and putting quarterbacks on the ground.

But you got all those jokes off while the Gators were suffering through every quarterback since, and it's really okay to let Florida be a rising power again.

• Notre Dame's boy wonder, 26 - year - old Coach Terence Patrick Brennan, began his career with grimly adult assurance; the Fighting Irish, led by Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi, got the Brennan regime off to a racing start by shutting out the tough University of Texas Longhorns, 21 - 0, while 57,594 cheered at South Bend (see pp. 58, 59).

Roethlisberger's injury forced books to take this game off the board, then reopen an adjusted line to account for backup quarterback Byron Leftwich getting the start.

Tyler Shough, a four - star quarterback to 247sports out of Chandler, Arizona, received an offer from Michigan recently: Just got off the...

He will move people off the ball in the run game, and the staff won't have to worry about him having any glaring deficiencies that will get their quarterback killed.

What I saw that I liked out of his speed rushes were excellent get - offs, good flexibility to duck under the tackle's punch and lean into the turn, and a really good burst to finish at the quarterback.

Another time, Bull Cyclone got to thinking about how his linemen pulled out to block.He was using the split T then, and most of the plays came off the quarterback rolling right.

In getting off to an 0 - 2 start, Cincinnati's pass defense looked like a sieve, quarterback Jeff Blake had to run for his life behind a green offensive line, and running back Ki - Jana Carter was already questioning his future with the Bengals after playing eight quarters in the NFL.

I was watching an NFL game where they didn't cover a receiver and the quarterback handed it off, and got maligned by scribes and pundits and so - called experts for not throwing it to him.»

Still, throughout the evening I caught myself putting other words into the mouths of our audience as I played Monday - morning quarterback and popped off my own «snappy answers» to the interview questions the applicant was getting on stage, and I wasn't the only panelist doing this.

Before that, we get to spend time with each of the four lead youths, which include a former high school football quarterback (Dennis Quaid), a depressive former basketball player (Daniel Stern) who's something of comic relief, and a short - tempered grad who's very defensive of his height (Jackie Earle Haley, coming off three Bad News Bears movies).