He's as long off the tee as almost anyone, bombing 350 -
yard drives down the center with consistency.
Not exact matches
Palmer learned the game from his dad: by age five, young Arnie would station himself by the sixth tee and offer to
drive shots over a drainage ditch that lay 120
yards down the fairway, for a nickel.
Tom Brady marched his team
down the field 70
yards in eight plays, finishing the
drive with another touchdown pass to Hernandez to give the Patriots a 21 - 0 lead.
The Buckeyes march 75
yards in 10 plays and get a second chance at finishing a
drive after another third -
down pass interference call, this one on PSU's Marcus Allen.
Looking at the PIT FG
drive, PIT went
down to the KC 6
yard line and kicked a FG.
On Sunday the Cowboys were held without a first
down until the second play of their fourth
drive, when with 9:30 left in the second quarter, Aikman and Irvin hooked up for 17
yards.
There were those two AFC Championship Games: the one in Cleveland in January 1987, after John Elway
drove the Denver Broncos 98
yards to tie the game with 39 seconds left in regulation — a series forever known as the
Drive — then took them
down the field again in overtime to keep Schottenheimer's Browns out of the Super Bowl; and the one in Denver a year later, after Cleveland's Earnest Byner fumbled with 1:12 left while going in for what would have been the tying touchdown — a play forever known as the Fumble.
«He is leading this week in
driving distance,» Miller added after McIlroy had striped one 305
yards down the middle of the fairway at the last, «but maybe you give up a little something around the greens.»
Now after all that the Bills finally got a
drive going and made their way
down to the Raiders» 17 -
yard line.
After the Jaguars» first
drive got close to the goal line, they rolled the dice with a fourth -
down run from the 1 -
yard line.
Georgia still averaged a robust 7.8
yards per play for the game, but following three consecutive scoring
drives in the first and second quarter, the Dawgs slowed
down dramatically, scoring only once in their next 10 possessions.
They got the ball first after halftime and promptly
drove all the way
down to the Eagles» 3 -
yard - line before having to settle for a game - tying field goal.
Nichols
drove down the middle on the final hole, then caught a three wood a little fat, and the ball stopped on the right edge of the fairway about 30
yards from the pin.
The Browns quarterback had an up - and -
down game against the Atlanta Falcons, but he ended up leading his team to a win on a last - minute, 61 -
yard drive.
After calling tails to win the coin toss, the Giants started the game with the longest
drive in Super Bowl history, a 16 - play, 63 -
yard march that consumed 9 minutes, 59 seconds and featured four third -
down conversions, the most ever on a Super Bowl opening
drive
In three
drives, the Ravens haven't secured a first
down, have -4 total
yards rushing, and Joe Flacco is 1 - 3 for six
yards and has been sacked twice.
But the Titans
drove down to the Rams» 10 -
yard line.
After a warm introduction at South - wind, Jordan steps up to the 1st tee and whacks a
drive 265
yards down the left center of the fairway.
The Broncos had their most efficient
drive of the game, moving 80
yards down the field in just six plays to close the gap to 36 - 8.
On 4th
down, the Bearcats decide to go for it and QB threw a pass up for grabs and # 81 Kevin Grant came
down with the pass for 34
yards to keep their
drive going.
But just as BCS talk was picking up, BSU's Ryan Dinwiddie threw for 297
yards and four touchdowns, and the Broncos cut short the Bulldogs» winning
drive with a fourth -
down, final - minute sack 10
yards from the BSU goal line.
Weatherford completed three passes for 79
yards on a
drive that ended with a touchback when BC All - America defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka ran
down tailback Lorenzo Booker and stripped him at the pylon.
Starting at their 21 -
yard line, less than two minutes to go with two timeouts left,
down three points, the Baltimore Ravens» season came
down to Joe Flacco's ability to lead them in a winning
drive.
The Lions
drove those 96
yards in 14 plays, thrice converting on third
down.
The Panthers converted on fourth
down twice on the
drive, the second time resulting in a 3 -
yard Jonathan Stewart touchdown.
Elliott had a 14 -
yard run to start the ensuing
drive, but Prescott did the rest, going 6 for 6 for 67
yards, two third -
down conversions, and a 6 -
yard touchdown strike to Witten.
In a slowed -
down environment, finishing
drives matters even more than normal because you're going to end up with fewer scoring opportunities inside the 40 -
yard line, and Alabama is typically even more devastating the closer they (or you) get to the end zone.
Alberto De la Bella
drove down the left channel before he squared the ball to Willian Jose inside the box 12
yards out, the striker tried to get a shot away but was denied by an excellent challenge from Diego Godin.
New England starts its next
drive with a beautifully executed screen to Rex Burkhead; his first touch of the game ends up going for 46
yards before Corey Graham tracks him
down at the Philly 29.
In the second half, Bellarmine came back,
driving down the field once and then taking advantage of a big punt return to set up Ike Ogbogu's 19 -
yard touchdown run on a quarterback keeper.
After a lengthy
drive got the Chargers in chip shot range for Kaser, the team's second - year punter, the team instead opted to go for a fourth
down with 13
yards to gain.
Down 30 - 24 with no timeouts and less than a minute to play, Matthew Stafford led the Lions on an 80 -
yard drive capped off on a quarterback - keeper with 12 seconds left to give Detroit a 31 - 30 win.
Lamar Jackson just didn't have enough against an aggressive Clemson defense, though he threw for over 300
yards with help from some productive
drives after the Cardinals were already
down by three touchdowns.
The Giants were
down 16 - 10 at that point and had
driven down to the 49ers» 32 -
yard line.
Murray and the Georgia offense
drove down the field, bringing them to the Auburn five -
yard line with about two minutes left to play.
One discovers that there are teams that prefer to
drive the ball deep
down the field with a single kick and hope to win the ultimate scramble for it; teams that have super-duper wingers like Stanley Matthews, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, who can carry the ball single - footedly
down the sideline before looping a pass to the forwards bunched in front of the goal; teams that specialize in position play, with a fullback bringing the ball up 20
yards, then passing off to a halfback and retaining his position, and so on
down the field; teams that pass and pass and pass, cuties in spikes, until one begins to wonder if anyone knows how to shoot.
He retired for the day after grabbing his back and bending
down gingerly to pick up his tee following a 300 -
yard drive on No. 9.
Down 21 — 10 following Smith's two - yard touchdown run 11 seconds into the fourth quarter, Delhomme put together a six - play, 81 - yard drive culminating in DeShaun Foster's 33 - yard touchdown dash down the left sidel
Down 21 — 10 following Smith's two -
yard touchdown run 11 seconds into the fourth quarter, Delhomme put together a six - play, 81 -
yard drive culminating in DeShaun Foster's 33 -
yard touchdown dash
down the left sidel
down the left sideline.
Continuing the
drive on 4th & 10, the Lions go for it and Butterfield connects with # 14 WR Zane Hinojosa for 23
yards, and a first
down at the Falcons 9
yard line.
Villegas was giving away four inches to the 6» 1» Wie, but he often blew
drives 30
yards past hers, while the 6» 4» Couch was even farther
down the fairway.
They were
driving and on UConn's side of the field with more than two minutes to go, but freshman quarterback Perry Hills was sacked, threw an incomplete pass, passed for a four -
yard loss and threw an incomplete pass on fourth
down, and the game was essentially over.
Still, he led the Texans
down the field on a eight - play, 52 -
yard touchdown
drive that gave Houston its first lead of the game with under three minutes to play.
His first -
down runs, often
driving through or carrying Northgate defenders, were just as impressive as his 41 - and 50 -
yard scoring runs in which he went virtually untouched after a single cutback.
That's defined by Connelly as any
drive in which a team gets a first
down inside the opponent's 40 -
yard line.
It took just one more hole for Woods to put that birdie on the scorecard when he took out his anger on his golf ball and blasted a
drive 323
yards down the middle of the fairway.
The
drive that ended on downs was a result of Cal's inability to get a first
down after three straight plays with a
yard to go failed to convert a first
down.
It didn't get better in the second half, as the Spartans took the kickoff and marched
down the field for a 10 - play, 67 -
yard touchdown
drive.
While Ohio State
drove down the field on their final series of the first half, Nick Nelson blocked a 43 -
yard field goal attempt to negate any more points on the board before halftime.
Down 14 - 7, ASU went 3 - for - 3 in converting passing downs on their third
drive; they completed an eight -
yard pass on second - and - nine, an 11 -
yard pass on third - and - six, and a nine -
yard touchdown pass on second - and - goal from the nine.
Looking at First
Down Rate (% of drives resulting in at least one first down or TD) and Available Yards Rate (yards gained by the offense / total yards available based on starting field position) is in line with our move toward bigger - picture stats, but they tell essentially the same story we've set up above: the Hoke offenses got worse and worse with very little fluctuation in even the most specific st
Down Rate (% of
drives resulting in at least one first
down or TD) and Available Yards Rate (yards gained by the offense / total yards available based on starting field position) is in line with our move toward bigger - picture stats, but they tell essentially the same story we've set up above: the Hoke offenses got worse and worse with very little fluctuation in even the most specific st
down or TD) and Available
Yards Rate (
yards gained by the offense / total
yards available based on starting field position) is in line with our move toward bigger - picture stats, but they tell essentially the same story we've set up above: the Hoke offenses got worse and worse with very little fluctuation in even the most specific stats.