Sentences with phrase «of young quarterbacks»

Tennessee's Marcus Mariota and Oakland's Derek Carr suffered broken legs, cutting short what were bright seasons for the pair of young quarterbacks.

While there may no longer be much gold left in them thar hills, there is a trio of young quarterbacks that have become the gold standard for signal - callers.

«I think I've seen that in Cleveland and also with a lot of young quarterbacks all over the league, because most of them have a lot of success their whole lives, and all of a sudden the NFL is a different game, and everything they thought they knew about themselves — that they were great leaders, and they could throw the ball and read defenses, and that their will would always overcome — they start to question those things and lose their confidence, and some never regain it.»

Not exact matches

In the meantime, the Rams» window is open for building a contender around a young quarterback and one of the best defensive players in the NFL.

The next day, the Houston Texans lost star rookie quarterback Deshaun Watson to a season - ending knee injury after the best game of his young career.

That's Stephen Jones, vice president of the Dallas Cowboys, describing to ESPN how Tony Romo behaved when he was just a young, scrappy, third - string quarterback trying to prove himself.

DEFENSE: Ezekial Gadson, a senior linebacker at Pitt, was a terror in a 27 - 17 Panther triumph over Brigham Young with 12 unassisted tackles, four sacks, a fumble recovery, two forced fumbles, a blocked punt and a pair of quarterback hurries.

It may seem like Brady is aging in reverse or a vampire or siphoning talent from younger quarterbacks through some kind of witchcraft.

Simple: Nurture a walk - on quarterback into a Heisman favorite over four years, surrounding him with an endless supply of blue - chip weapons and a young, fearless coach who trusts him to make it all hum.

For the second time in four years, according to recruiting experts, coach Mack Brown signed the top incoming class in the nation, this one led by Young, a 6» 5», 200 - pound quarterback who passed and ran for a total of 3,819 yards and 59 touchdowns last season.

The media stopped reporting on the incident, and fans got back to fretting over matters they really considered important: the status of Joe Montana's injured elbow, and whether he or Steve Young would be the quarterback to lead the team to a fifth Super Bowl championship.

Newton rallied his team in the fourth quarter of Week 6 against the Seattle Seahawks to a 27 - 23 win; the young quarterback threw for 100 yards through the first three quarters, only to add 169 more in the fourth.

Brigham Young is groaning over the loss of its quarterback, split end and placekicker, all injured.

Quarterback Jake Coker and his young receiving corps struggled to find a rhythm in the first half of the season, but Coker completed 71 percent of his passes with five touchdowns and no interceptions over the final three games.

To decrease the predictability of its offense and increase the life expectancy of its All - Pro quarterback, Steve Young, the 49ers» brain trust went into this off - season with an urgent mission: to revive a running game that by the end of 1995 had been given up for dead.

«Ma'am, we represent the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints,» said Sean Covey, the young man expected to be the next great BYU quarterback.

Covey grew up within a mile of Cougar Stadium, cutting out hundreds of articles about Brigham Young football for his scrapbooks, attending home games, mimicking the great BYU quarterbacks in his backyard.

Its leaders boasted one of college football's best defenses (Rutgers), best young quarterbacks (Louisville's Teddy Bridgewater) and best names (Cincinnati's Munchie Legaux).

With Young, Grbac and tackle Harris Barton out with injuries in a game against one of the rising teams in the league, the 49ers» defense got the win and third - string quarterback Jeff Brohm the save — with a fourth - quarter touchdown pass to rookie wideout Terrell Owens.

Or is he an erratic young QB who has been overhyped because he has more charisma than any New York quarterback since Joe Namath, dates women most of us only see on TV screens, and rode the coattails of a strong defense and running attack to within a game of the Super Bowl?

After watching Covey play the six - game jayvee season, including a game in which Covey completed 47 of 77 passes for 520 yards, Edwards sensed that the latest branch on the Cougars» Gifford Nielsen - Marc Wilson - Jim McMahon - Steve Young - Robbie Bosco family quarterback tree had shown itself.

Twenty - nine years ago, a fullback named LeGrande Young, father of future Brigham Young quarterback star Steve Young, went on a mission with 19 other BYU players.

Steve DeBerg was one lucky NFL quarterback that got the chance to sit behind Hall of Famers Joe Montana, John Elway and Steve Young.

King's chronicle of Favre's week takes readers into the head and heart of one of the NFL's best young quarterbacks

Here we see the young quarterback just giving all of his things away.

Moreover, the running ability of sophomore quarterback Vince Young has helped spread opposing defenses.

The Browns are going to come into the season with a young but talented roster, and the Jets will have one of these highly - touted rookie quarterbacks on their roster.

In just his second season, Derek Carr emerged as one of the league's top young quarterbacks, throwing for nearly 4,000 yards with a 32:13 touchdown to interception ratio.

When the entire NFL passed on him in the first round of the 2001 draft, when the San Diego Chargers benched him four times and then brought in a young quarterback to replace him, when he tore up his shoulder in December» 05, it took faith to believe he would be a star in professional football and lead a team to a Lombardi Trophy.

Now they're run - of - the - mill, struggling to find a young quarterback to replace Dan Marino, struggling to find the kind of identity that number 13 gave them in his glory years.

Had Walsh remained as coach, with future Hall of Fame quarterbacks Joe Montana and Steve Young running his avant - garde offense, the man who had been dubbed the Genius knows he could have won four, five, maybe even six Super Bowls.

New York took Davis Webb to groom behind Eli Manning so the team can choose whether it wants to keep working with that young passer or take another quarterback at the top of the class.

When Walsh acquired Young from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for second - and fourth - round draft picks before the 1987 season, the left - handed quarterback was the NFL's version of a wild mustang — swift and untamed.

In»88 Walsh saw the team through a full - blown quarterback controversy of his own making, angering Montana by inserting Young into the lineup for parts or all of numerous regular - season games.

Shurmur has a history of working with young quarterbacks including Donovan McNabb, Colt McCoy, and most recently, Nick Foles.

Considering that Foles is quite limited as a rusher, we could safely rank the following signal callers ahead of the Eagles young quarterback (In no particular order):

He kept defensive coordinator Bill Young, two quarterbacks and most of his receivers, and a secondary that was obliterated by injury gets most of last year's pieces back.

But the younger brother of (much taller) Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe offered at least a few hints that there might be life after Terrell.

For the next 10 minutes, McVay, the NFL's youngest coordinator at 30, and Callahan, a month shy of his 60th birthday, go back and forth, rapid fire, about when and how they can practice this new play; what they'll tell the guards and centers to do; what they'll tell the quarterback to look for; and how they'll instruct the running backs to set up the cut.

For the 1962 season the Chargers brought in John Hadl, a talented young quarterback from Kansas, and Alworth, who soon became the most dazzling Charger of them all.

The Broncos, winners of 14 in a row at Mile High Stadium, have not forgotten their last home loss: In January 1997, the Jaguars stunned John Elway & Co. in the divisional playoffs, with quarterback Mark Brunell (right) looking like a young Steve Yyoung Steve YoungYoung.

While New England and Denver have made it with legendary Hall of Fame quarterbacks and mediocre defenses, Seattle and San Francisco boast young, mobile QB's and elite defenses.

«ÄúI listen real closely to everything Steve says, because he «Äôs the quarterback I want to become, «Äù says Young, a sophomore who was Parade «Äôs national high school player of the year in 2001.

The Raiders are paying free agent Kelechi Osemele left tackle money to play left guard with an eye toward giving Derek Carr every chance to emerge as one of the game's best young quarterbacks as soon as possible.

He's not young enough to be your quarterback of the future.»

Yet on each of Manziel's explosive plays in the fourth quarter, the quarterback broke contain first from the defensive end, something that was not lost on the younger Nkedmiche, who watched his brother and teammates unravel in devastation.

All 3 of those running backs (Fournette, Gurley and Elliott) relieved a lot of pressure from their young quarterbacks.

Steve Young, the former quarterback of the USFL's moribund L.A. Express franchise, has been in the NFL only six weeks, with Tampa Bay.

«The beauty of this offense is that it generates alot of big plays,» says 49ers backup quarterback Trent Dilfer, «andwhen you're a young quarterback, you need those big plays to build yourconfidence.

Their young quarterback, Chad Pennington, is piling up lots of yards.