Sentences with phrase «wins a starting job»

DeShone Kizer won the starting job in Cleveland this preseason, but costly red - zone turnovers have landed him on the bench twice in a three - game span.

Black quarterback Joe Gilliam, who led the Steelers to victory in all their exhibition games and won a starting job, opens the season against the Colts.

Seattle signed Flynn last offseason with the intention of using him as the team's starting quarterback, but Russell Wilson won the starting job in Seattle.

Flynn is expected to win the starting job, but will compete with Terrelle Pryor throughout the offseason.

SI: In the last three years Matthew Stafford, Kevin Kolb, Andy Dalton, Colt McCoy and Christian Ponder, all from high schools in Texas, have won starting jobs.

Eric, hitting.285, is second in the league in steals (61) and has hit 16 homers, even though he didn't win a starting job until mid-June.

Baylor transfer Jarrett Stidham quickly won the starting job, and new offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey could add a passing background to Malzahn's typically run - friendly tactics.

Niko was already the guy who won the starting job, a victory that Portis interpreted as entitlement and he responded with committing towards improvement decking his rival in practice.

Anthony Sciaraffa, who got the walk - around when he walked on at Texas, upped and walked away and walked on at TCU, where he won the starting job.

And we've recruited a kid out of Provo who's one of the best shooters I've ever seen [Greg Ballif, who played four years but could never win a starting job].

Watson and Hayden repeatedly won their starting jobs — even though it was against subpar competition.

Despite his struggles in the Peach Bowl last season, senior Sean Maguire -LRB--600) looked like a lock to win the starting job at Florida State.

Yes, even after the embarrassment of the Buttfumble and 82 touchdowns with 81 interceptions in his career, Sanchez may actually win a starting job once again.

Since Tony Romo won the starting job back in 2006, the Cowboys have gone 90 - 76 straight up (54.2 %) but only 75 - 87 ATS (46.3 %).

Ten years after winning the starting job in college, one year after sitting during the national anthem, Colin Kaepernick is still looking for work in the NFL.

Until last season, when he won the starting job in training camp and ran for an NFC - best 1,405 yards, Davis was known mostly for being the guy on the wrong end of a sucker punch thrown by teammate Michael Westbrook during a 1996 practice.

Darmstadter won the starting job after coming around the beltway from Georgetown as a grad transfer.

Black ended up winning a starting job at wide receiver, with Peoples - Jones being one of the first off the bench before eventually getting a few starts.

Then after he won the starting job and was named the Big12 freshman of the year, he left and walked on to Oklahoma.

He won the starting job in 2016 and Michigan fans were in an uproar.

In fast order, Jasmine's ability soon wins the starting job, followed by a string of victories that takes the team to the title game.

This was treated as if the starter were hurt or some unforeseen circumstance caused them not to play, and Kaepernick was brought in to play quarterback and won the starting job.

This, of course, implies that he would have won the starting job from Brian Hoyer but the results may not have been much better regardless.

Not exact matches

Suddenly, ACE started winning more business, and far from anyone losing their jobs the company ended up adding 20 new employees.

Since then, we've won or raised over a quarter of a million dollars, quit our day jobs, started generating revenue, and hiring employees to grow our business.»

That we need to start a revolution because Obama won... this is why the republicans lost... catering to the extreme far right, extreme religiious, extreme Tea Baggers... the tea partty members in the house will continue to create more problems for the GOP untill they show they are going to work with this President instead of against him... Boenher better get a grip on his House or he will find himself out of a job... and the GOP better distance themselves from this NUT CASE TRUMP...

transferred to Columbia Treon Harris — transferred to Tennessee Tech Will Grier — suspended for PEDs, transferred to West Virginia Luke Del Rio — still there, still not that good Austin Appleby — name me 3 things funnier than a guy losing the starting job at Purdue and then winning the job at Florida

He was talking about money, about Tour wins, about keeping your card, about fast starts in the new year.Last year he was working two jobs, broadcaster and player.

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The German tactician will be hoping for a strong cup run to coincide with Liverpool's bid to win the Premier League title this season, and although he has freshened things up after a busy festive schedule, he'll be confident in those starting to get the job done.

It appears redshirt freshman Will Grier is the favorite to win the starting quarterback job.

If he is healthy by the time training camp opens, I would fully expect for him to compete and win the No. 2 job behind Jake Locker, perhaps even start at some point this season.

After a slow start in 2016, during which the team struggled enough that many questioned Mike McCarthy's job security, the Packers won their final six games of the season.

With Kevin Kolb injured, the Cardinals were forced to turn to Skelton this week, the preseason favorite to win the starting quarterback job there during the preseason.

Sophomore Taylor Kelly, the leading candidate to take over as the starting quarterback for Arizona State after the departure of Brock Osweiler to the NFL, has won the job.

Sophomore Lydell Ross, who rushed for 419 yards and six touchdowns last season, had been the favorite to win the starting tailback job outright.

Hpoefully our players will start to click into gear and up the pace or find themselves in their new positions (Sanchez) we'll just have to wait and see who Wenger selects for the job and if they can carry it out to win the points.

It's also interesting to note that, despite questions about whether Romo will reclaim the starting job, Prescott has emerged as a top candidate to win the MVP Award.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

Jalen Hurts is likely to transfer from Alabama if he doesn't win the starting QB job.

The ex-Philadelphia Flyer goaltender has been playing great lately, taking over the starting job from rookie Darcy Kuemper and winning three of his last four starts.

I for one believe that it is not about about having a world class striker that wins you a league however having having a world class striker increases your chance of winning a league.Having said that I just hope we go for Icardi or a world class striker or someone who isn't necessarily world class but just knows how to do his job and put it in there.I'd urge Wenger to go for Javier Hernandez or Callum Wilson.They would bang it in and would have world class form because they would have consistent quality support from the midfield.It's all about him being serious and telling himself he can do it.I'm just tired tired of watching that so called striker in our club let alone him starting for us.Its just pathetic.

watching my team against Ireland yesterday even tough we won i wasn, t impressedit, we only start playing with purpose when we go behind and when we, re in front we slow down our play, i thought koscielny had a decent game with a couple of good clearance and his job was made more difficult by adil rami who is a burden on the team and always one mistake away, giroud can, t be blamed for his first half performance the guy was starved of any service and it, s only when griezman was moved to his favourite position that giroud started making the difference what a great assist, by the way shane long dived for the penalty but that, s ok we are square now with the irish we had henry, s handball & they had the penalty!!

While it isn't suggested that his job could be in danger just yet, Benitez knows he must start winning consistently again soon.

It sounds ridiculous but hear me out, he always plays attacking football, or as our manager likes to say «approaches the game with a positive attitude», he knows how to be consistent with his goals (kept Wigan in PL despite everyone saying they would be relegated), also brought his team to a cup final on an extremely low budget, was also responsible for the passing philosophy in Swansea, and most importantly, he can nurture YOUNG talent (Lukaku already has 50 goals in England, Delofeu is starting to bloom, Stones is already flourishing,...) Imo someone like Matinez would be the perfect candidate for the job, but he has to prove he can win trophies as well and challenge in Europe as well.

The Cardinals continue to win and Arizona is now the projected 1 - seed in the NFC even though their quarterback situation is a mess and they are rumored to be looking at signing Shane Falco to compete for the starting job.

It won't be easy because we will play a very good team, but let's start with the semi-final, let's do the job properly and hopefully we will win it again this year.

Sources say Bledsoe believes he was told by Belichick that he'd be worked into the lineup; the next week the coach announced that Brady, who had won five of his eight starts, would keep the job for the rest of the season.

However, winning the starting left - tackle job this summer wouldn't be the biggest upset of Fiore's career.