Sentences with phrase «weak competition»

In business, unlike sports, it pays to play against weak competition.

After all, when you watch a young player, all you really is how he fares against weak competition.

The low level of external investment seen to date may be a symptom of weak competition in the market overall, as found by the Competition and Markets Authority market study, LSB's Market Evaluation and the joint SRA LSB research revealing that levels of innovation are not increasing.

The Nook Tablet is one of the better looking 7 - inch devices on the market, but we're not sure if that's a huge compliment or just a statement of how weak the competition is today.

Good to great players / teams feast on weak competition, i.e. Julio vs TB and GB.

The question is, «is his better play against weaker competition good enough?»

But in the last few games, they started playing Josi - Ekholm against the other team's top line, and that means a bit less TOI and weaker competition for Subban, and it's not a good thing IMO.

For the most part, the Bucks have been fortunate to have such weak competition, but the Rockets have actually been playing quite well since a mid-January slide.

Once again, this can largely be explained by the strength of schedule since Green Bay will face weaker competition than any other team in the league.

Usually when guys are this close, they start fighting weak competition, because they don't want to jeapordise their chance at a huge payday.

This is largely due to the stiff competition in the NFC West from the San Francisco 49ers as compared to the relatively weak competition in the AFC East and West.

By contrast, the Best Actor contest looks less feisty, as breakout «A Prophet» star Tahar Rahim shouldn't have too much trouble seeing off some rather weak competition.

AIZ offers funeral insurance, but it is # 1 there, with weak competition.

The question isn't «does he play better against weaker competition?»

Since this is Wenger's biggest chance to get league glory (cause of weak competition).

Let me say this too, after watching him whup Florida left tackle D.J. Humphries» ass for two sacks, I can attest to the fact that he wasn't just beating up on weak competition, either.

They could create some offense against weaker competition.

Weak competition and big - play ability salvaged the overall numbers, but the ground game came up short in key moments — in three losses, Swanson carried 37 combined times for just 132 yards (3.6 per carry), and when Swanson missed the EMU game, Shakif Seymour managed only 3.2 yards per carry in a near - loss.

Arteta does the CDM job only against weak competition.

But those numbers were built on the soft ground of weak competition, and the Hawkeyes collapsed against the Buckeyes, losing 23 - 7.

Hard to know what to make of scoring all these goals against weak competition.

CJ just demonstrated that Gelinas is performing worse at even strength, against weaker competition.

You can put that on Dabo Swinney or Chad or Venables or the players, but I don't know if this team is going to be able to run the table against the weak competition we face for the rest of this season.

The geriatric point guard missed four games in late November and early this month, and although the Knicks went 3 - 1, it was against weak competition and anyone watching those games saw the same thing: it wasn't the team that started the season white hot with terrific ball movement and lights - out shooting.

Given the weak competition, the Hokies season could come down to an October 20th game in Clemson and a November 8th matchup against Florida State.

They've won their past three games against weak competition — the Kings, Warriors and Blazers — but haven't performed up to snuff against tougher teams since March.

In two games, albeit against weak competition, Jackson has helped Louisville rack up 1,508 yards and 132 points (18 touchdowns)!

The Wildcats started conference play with six - straight losses before closing with three wins against weaker competition, and losing their bowl game handily to a better Arkansas team.

It is sad that we're in this state despite the weak competition this year.

One of the weakest competition entries at Sundance Fest this year, this pseudo romantic - erotic feature promises more than it can deliver, and after a cute beginning falls apart.

For the most part, the movies still suck, but following the box office success of films like «Taken» and «Ride Along,» the studios seem more willing to give higher - profile titles a chance to perform against the weaker competition.