Sentences with phrase «of championship caliber»

Or he's following the mantra of any championship caliber team; fill offense through FA, build defense through the draft..

The backfield, though spearheaded by 210 - pound Fullback Bob Miller, is not of championship caliber.

Not exact matches

However, I do agree with your assessment regarding impact players and the value of quality (with adequate depth) over quantity on a championship caliber roster.

Since the Sparks have a championship - caliber team together, whoever they draft isn't likely to see a whole ton of playing time.

The vast majority of teams simply can not recruit championship - caliber talent.

Tiapepe Vitale is the kind of back that can once again pace a championship - caliber ground game, and quarterback Chris Williams showed against Pittsburg that he can add an extra dimension to their offensive attack.

Ironically, all the built - in equalizers (small court, one serve, screen play) that make paddle such a good social game may limit the future of championship - caliber play.

Rondo, after all, was the final piece to go of the Celtics» championship - caliber teams that won it all in 2008.

Extra pennants and a championship, combined with a Hall of Fame - caliber legacy, in exchange for just one pitcher?

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

So I'm struggling to see the logic in Dabo giving up a national championship (a second straight one at that), a title without Deshaun Watson (which would help mitigate the «oh, Clemson and Dabo only won because they had Watson» crap), 3 years of a 5 - star NC - winning - caliber QB in order to....

That was not the character of a championship - caliber team or a championship - caliber manager, and of all the teams in the league we had to regress against, it was Seattle, on national television, so that for 90 minutes I got to hear Taylor Twellman salivate over Roldan, Alonso, and the rest of the Rave Green Mafia.

In the right situation, playing next to one of those rare floor - spacing and rim - protecting big man like Serge Ibaka or Anthony Davis, Randle could be a really good player on a championship - caliber team.

It's the presence of Crosby and Malkin that's turned Kessel, Patric Hornqvist, Jake Guentzel, Bryan Rust, and Conor Sheary into championship - caliber offensive players.

How the Oakland A's of the early to mid 2000s built a championship caliber team with very little money.

This is a venue befitting of a high - caliber championship finale.

A national - championship caliber football team isn't the only thing going well in Athens right now, as the apartment market also has enjoyed a stretch of outstanding performance.