Sentences with phrase «playoff game the rest»

Joe Namath, as a 18 - point dog, guaranteed victory three days before kick... then never won another playoff game the rest of his career (cue John Malkovich).

Not exact matches

** CBS and the rest of the TV guys will certainly argue that the drop in NFL viewership (despite some stellar playoff games) merits a lighter increase in fees, or even a flattening.

But then came his dominatingstint with the Brewers down the stretch last year: Traded to Milwaukee inmidseason, Sabathia ignored the pleas of his agent and risked his loomingfinancial bonanza as a free agent by starting three games on three days» rest, throwing seven complete games, going 11 — 2 with a 1.65 ERA and carryingMilwaukee into the playoffs for the first time in 26 years.

However, the Winner of this Game will get to choose which side of the Bracket they'd like to take for the rest of the Playoffs.

They will get to sit back and kick their heels up while the rest of the League puts their Playoff lives on the line trying to meet them in the Final4... The Team who loses will need to shake - off their first Loss, which isn't always easy after a long W - streak and get ready to take on the Winner of the Opening Round Game.

I will say 9 and 11 in the last 20 when teams are tanking and / or resting players for the playoffs (like the Rockets game) is less meaningful to me, so I don't buy into that as much.

Rather than making rest the priority, I think the mentality should be — start each game through the end of the season like a playoff game.

If the resilient Cardinals win this game, it will put them in control of the NFC West and one of the top two playoff berths, provided they don't have a total collapse over the rest of the season.

A final show on December 7 will announce the four teams selected for the Playoff's semifinal games, the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl, and the eight teams that make the rest of the so - called New Year's Six bowls, the Cotton, Fiesta, Orange, and Peach.

Im not concerned about pekka in this scenario.The worst case for us (Saros struggles) he (pekka) gets one game rest like he did all the time in the regular season and goes back in at home, in the best case for us juuse can make an positiv impact and we ride him for this series... the only thing what would bother me about the worst case is, you could argue that our future # 1 seems to show nerves in the playoffs.

Yes, players sometimes crack 40 minutes in the NBA playoffs, but that still means they're resting for a significant chunk of a 48 minute game and 2.

After January 2005 Brady never again beat Manning in the playoffs, while Manning beat Brady three straight AFC Championship games over the rest of their careers.

There's games where Steph is invisible and it doesn't matter because the rest of the team is so good I think the same can be said for Kyrie, although that dude is a gamer Chris Paul has a (possibly unfair) reputation as a playoff choker, overall his numbers are fine, but there's definitely been some late miscues that normally don't happen

At first one doctor told Mashburn it was anemia that had sent him off the court 10 minutes into the Hornets» first playoff game last April, lightheaded and vomiting, unable to return for the rest of the postseason.

The Broncos (13 - 3) will rest next week before hosting a second - round playoff game against the lowest remaining seed from the wildcard round the following week.

even after he turned in his best season in a very long time this year, he's really turned his game up in the playoffs and really also in the last couple of weeks of the season, it was just easy for the rest of the league to overlook those last couple of weeks because the run up to the playoffs were so intense this year

Clippers F Blake Griffin was not so lucky as he left Game 3 with a toe injury and will miss the rest of the playoffs.

Their defense should be good again under new coordinator Tony Dungy, who's only 28, but if they don't want a repeat of the Raider blowout in their playoff game last year, they'd better learn how to fly with the rest of the hawks.

These guys are still in a tie for 1st in the Standings and if they can get victories in their last 2 games they will still play in the # 1 v. # 2 Hoops game during the Opening Rounds of the Playoffs (essentially getting a bye — the winner gets to pick their side of the bracket for the rest of the Playoffs).

The Top - 2 finish is crucial as it means that they would a) get a BYE to the Elite8 and b) they would get a chance to play in the Top - 2 Game, where the Winner gets to dictate their side of the bracket for the rest of the Playoffs.

They as the # 1 Seed have earned the advantage of being well - rested for their Elite8 Game while whoever they play will have just won a hotly contested Playoff battle..

The Indians are currently on a 21 - game win streak and the odds of them running the rest of the regular season table are 25/1, while the odds of Cleveland losing a game before the playoffs is 1/80.

6AA: Corcoran vs. Maxwell / Stone Ridge Christian «'' It looks like there would be at least one play - in game in the north involving small schools that will end their section playoffs one week before the rest of the state.

A first - round playoff game looms; thus, they have incentive to rest key players.

What if they played Bolden the last two games because Duke isn't 100 % healthy and they want to rest some starters for the playoffs

Three points would also qualify Club America for the playoffs and allow Herrera to even rest some players in the last two games of the season.

After a multi-month slog replete with a bunch of resting players and tanking teams, the NBA Playoffs are here and we finally have what should be some good competitive games.