Sentences with phrase «start playing defense»

Where the Dems will really have to start playing defense for Senate seats is in 2012, when they'll try to retain all the freshmen from 2006.
For CenterState CEO President Rob Simpson, January is usually a time he and other business leaders start playing defense; fending off budget proposals from Albany that include higher taxes and fees, and more government spending.
He could feel free to start playing defense, though.

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Nick Foles proved he could still play with a steady performance against the Giants in his first start for the Eagles this year after Carson Wentz went down with a season - ending injury, and the Philadelphia defense proved they're still fearsome when they essentially won Eagles» Christmas game against the Raiders on their own.
When you consider the turbulence that's rocked equity markets in recent weeks, it's understandable that BAML would start urging investors to play defense.
Interestingly, just as investors are rediscovering the value of playing defense, one of the classic ways to play that theme is starting to look more reasonable.
If «the best defense is a good offense», I recommend that the LGBT community stop playing defense all the time and start putting the R.C. hierarchy on the defensive instead.
Ei for arsenal the next game is always a panic station because of one or two things.However i am always scared when i see a certain three players in the team.They are not supposed to be there yet keep being there.I do not want to mention names but just start from the defense to the attack and you might know them.By the way i hope Walcott plays we need someone like him to be inform because he can really help us.
I think Ramsey play better coming off the bench, when ever he's in the starting eleven he rarely scores a goal, he gives the ball away far to often and sometimes in dangerous positions, he makes straight forward passes or the simple passes, I've never seen him make a defense splitting pass or a through ball, the only positive about him starting a match is his engine, he will definitely cover a lot of ground but i think we need more of a creative or Attacking CM in that position because of the back three formation.
Playing as part of a defense that is more of a fit for his particular talents along with a starting role made Cornelius Washington an easy choice for the Lions» breakout player of 2017.
And Kos played superb defense, scored the amazing header for the first goal, and was the first player in the box to send the ball over to Giroud to start the 2nd.
In addition to revamping the offense, Johnson started five rookies on defense this season, and all told, eight first - year players got lots of playing time.
Murray will undergo an MRI of the foot on Monday to further evaluate the injury, and if he can not play next week at Carolina, Felix Jones is likely to start against the Panthers» underwhelming run defense.
Damn offense started to play scared and the defense gave up ticky tack stuff... A 3rd and 18... Come the hell on man... Complete Meltdown man!!!
After the most crippling possible start, the Cougars kept playing strong defense and, after three three - and - outs to follow the turnover streak, figured out some offense.
The Lions» defense has had some fits and starts in recent weeks; however, upcoming opponents had better be afraid of their defensive line with Ansah playing this well.
But baseball starts almost every play in the game with a pitch (much like tennis starts every play with a serve), while plays in basketball originate in a variety of ways, and there is a constant and rapid change from offense to defense that can not be avoided.
There's been a narrative that's starting to be dispelled that the Panthers are the worst 13 - 0 team in the history of the NFL, which is a pretty hilarious thing to say, but the underlying point is that they have some very real and well - documented weaknesses that get covered up by Cam Newton on offense, and All - Pro linebacker play on defense.
With this system Oxlade, Iwobi and Walcott can fill up the wings as subsitutes and start other games; Akpom, Perez and Walcott can play the Giroud role and We have Elneny to play in any of three spots in the central defense role...
Let him adopt on the pitch and looking at our defense kolasinac should start every game Monreal is out played in that position to concede four goals at anfield is a disgrace for such a great club like arsenal.
Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne just wanted to play the puck that was dumped in and help his defense start the...
Now it appears that Covington will now start opposite of J.J. Watt as a defensive tackle in the Texans» 3 - 4 defense, which should give him even more opportunities to make plays.
i think he will be playing from the start, it would give the defense more confidence and once the defense is confident the team will be also.
Hahahaha now someone is calling Petr Cech a double agent.I thought peeps were like Szczesny is shit he is this and that yes i would admit Szczesny costs us a lot but i was shocked no one felt sorry for a 19 year old keeper being thrown into such a shaky defense even petr cech must be saying in his mind that he is shocked.Let me tell you some go for Buffon or any other legendary keeper and put him in this current arsenal defense and he will still concede mad goals.But Szczesny and Cech both tied at highest clean sheets some seasons ago.Despite Cech having a defense which was light years ahead of this one and to me that speaks volumes about his potential.I love you very much Szczesny i refuse to be ignorant and call you shit what if you were 19 years at Chelsea and started playing i will bet you would have been catching for them.I love you come back stronger for me ok the pitiful thing is that you will meet the same defense again.By the way Cech will come good and stop comparing Ospina to him.
After starting off the season a lackluster 2 - 3, Jay Cutler and the Bears have now won four in a row by a combined score of 130 - 65, with their vaunted defense playing reminiscent of their ’06 Super Bowl run.
Pat J, when Monreal recovered from injury and he's 100 % fit and inform to play, you can bet, as his 1st choice, Le Boss will certainly start him in Arsenal back three defense - line in prefrence to Maitland in his supposedly new starting XI that includes Aubameyang if he's signed.
Dame wasn't playing good defense at the start of the game, and he wasn't playing good defense at the end of the game.
The system, Lester said, is frustrating to throwing quarterbacks as they need to wait to read the defense after the play has started.
Whether it's coming on late and physically imposing himself against a tired defense that's been given the runaround or starting (when in - form) and doing the same thing only for the tired out defense to brace themselves as we bring on that mobile striker we crave he has a big role to play for us.
When you play great defense, even the open shots start falling a lot less, because your rhythm and timing are off.
Plus, the defense starts having to tackle him 2x as much as now & that softens up opponents» D for bigger plays later in the game.
think of Messi, Ronaldo, Aguero, coasta etc. sorry if we spend so much on our defense and they cant perform their functions independently then I think we shd start playing our attackers in those positions.
If you watch the replay Mikal was starting to run the floor to get back on defense but he still kept his eye on the play going on behind him.
positives (+) + though bellerin had a bad game he held his own for such a high profile game to make a debut start + wenger sub'd early taking off ozil and arteta early enough and the bleeding stopped + with the way we played it could have been a LOT worse than 2 - 0 + szczesny is still pretty good in goals though the defense left him exposed a lot + a much needed rude awakening to the squad as the season begins to take shape + nothing is decided still everything to play for and 4 trophies to challenge for, same as before kick - off
this year started good, but our squad needs such a big overhaul that laca and kola are not enough, we need a least 4 top aggressive, commanding players to play defense and central midfield, but wenger has no intention of doing that.
Mallett finished 8 of 13 for 98 yards in the final six minutes, and although it was with the game out of reach and the Chiefs playing conservative defense, it was apparently enough to earn him the start against the Panthers.
I was in the Coliseum; Sam Darnold looked like a very good quarterback playing without much support from his run game, working against an inspired defense that ran out of gas somewhere in the start of the fourth quarter.
I'm starting to believe there are some people here who have a crush on Xhaka want to brain wash others with his display regardless good or bad and today he was clearly terrible and made two fatal mistakes and if compared to Elneny the later made the 1st goal assist and almost not one touch wrong on the ball despite the few back and side passes which were necessary against a team playing zone defense intimidating any Arsenal player on the ball
Ivanovic has always been a rock in Chelsea's defense and that doesn't look likely to change anytime soon, not sure if you've seen Chelsea's matches this year but he has gotten off to a blistering start and was probably Chelsea's best player vs Leicester (this is the time where we usually bash Leicester and say «Oh they are a newly promoted club» but truth be told we escaped with a point from playing them if we are being unbiased)
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.
Machado should bring good, possibly even Gold Glove - caliber defense to the middle of the diamond, with any given ball in play offering the potential to dazzle you in a way that you start to take for granted after you watch him for a while.
I say we start Ian because he atleast is playing good defense when he is having a good game and is more active on the offensive end.
Monreal (who should be asked to be cautious as he ventures forward) and hopefully with his defensive bias, should be able to track back and help out in the defense when we are short at the back, and OX on the right side who, from evidence of his having played there and performed in the shortness of this season games, and with enough pace to track back when necessary — but with a bias for going forward — would be a good mix to start with.
Cech is big, tall and likes to keep his play simple, which is pretty assuring, but a top club goalkeeper should be able to work with the defenders to start his team attack from the defense area, not just produced long goal kicks.
We made it into the section playoffs and won our first game — and then the coach told me I wouldn't be starting the next game because he wanted to play a different defense.
A 4 2 -2-2 to end that game with players willing to play defense and still be an offensive threat changes the outcome, Toledo or no. 20/20 hindsight makes these discussions interesting, hopefully we start to get some results soon.
But when he later started coming deep to be involved in the play, he became very effective as he drew the opposition's centre defenders out thereby opening space for himself and his team mates to cause problems for the opposition's defense.
I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!
As far as the back four is concerned, Boeteng and Hummels to start in central defense while Alba and Kimmich to play as full backs.
Tomorrow, Arsenal will start their cup defense doing exactly that as they travel to the City Ground to play Nottingham Forest.
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