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"It's never man for man because you got a goalkeeper."
"You're on the high watch list, you mention you're 15-point underdogs, and you understand what Alabama is. That's Coach Saban."
"They need someone to unlock the defense for them."
"The Patriot Way is just having Tom Brady on your team."
"The Phantom's are here, Angie, with a new XP."
"We're gonna do speeches about why Speedy means so much to us."
"For this club to move forward, for us to be a serious club, I think what we need is relegation."
"Sometimes keeping players is just as important as signing players."
"It's a passing league; the sprinkles is the run game, but your meat and potatoes is the passing game."
"Are the tactics we have in place effective? That's the most important question."
"The biggest weapon on this team is Justin Fields' ability to run."
"The only way I can describe it is a Manchester City performance that has been commanding, dominant in possession."
"I've really struggled on offense during this second half with Ohio State, but it's not going to matter because Will Howard just ended it."
"A key ingredient here in Waco is to have that nice sidearm; it really plays well on those tight wooded courses."
"My main goal is going to be to cut out the interceptions."
"We take it each game at a time because you never know what's coming."
"Spurs do have a way of playing. They always have had a way of playing."
"All right, last possession, 2 seconds to go. Probably going to force it to myself again."
"We need to back a manager, not sack a manager."
"It's like trying to build a Ferrari with parts from a Land Rover, a Vauxhall Astra, a tractor. The parts just don't fit together."
"This is outstanding football: shift, motion, then we're going to check or alert it, and then we're going to motion again, all to throw a pro pass run option dart in the second window."
"In certain situations, especially depending on where the defenders are, as a receiver, you have to catch the ball with your hands."
"Dame scoring is more important; you need someone who can keep the floor stretched."
"We need to rebuild the foundation and get back to playing entertaining football."
"You can easily make three to four wide at Talladega if you have enough confidence in yourself and the drivers around you."
"The set pieces win Champions League finals; they win leagues."
"Having players available... plays a huge part."
"Harden has been and always will be the king of the four-point play."
"You need one holding midfield player, and that holding midfield player... he's the best player and the most calming influence on that defense."
"Things are going exactly how I was hoping they would, but we still need to keep picking up first downs."
"Phoenix got to win. You [__] around in these last ten games, they could easily go three and seven."
"My goal was just make sure to throw strikes, throw my best stuff over the plate, and force the guys to swing."
"This is an advantage for special teams coaches that can figure out how to set up a good return."
"What's interesting to me though about the switching against switchable lineups...teams have now figured out ways to exploit switching."
"If you had a manager like Pochettino who plays good football but also looks at the youth, it's less we'd play better, the fans would be happier, more money comes into the club."
"Every manager will look at the team they're playing, work out strengths, weaknesses for both yours and your opponents, and then set up to make sure you get the best of your best players."
"Remember they studied you; that's what makes playoffs so great."
"Round one was a swift reminder that unorthodox technique and commitment to a game plan is exactly what makes KSI competitive in fights."
"I love corners now; it's so remarkable just to be someone's shadow and ensure they can't do anything on you."
"You have to be there to get the tap-ins, right? And that's what the strikers are supposed to do."
"Great coaching is about getting your players to do the simple things every single time and to do them right."
"You're never going to win a game like that if you're carrying passengers; everybody has to play at least seven out of ten."
"The defense is important as well. We've got a solid defense."
"If he let that go, there could be a chance that you could challenge."
"If you don't have a defense, you don't win anything."
"If you give an elite player in the Premier League time and space, they're going to send you the wrong way all the time."
"When you have yourself a solid midfield, you got yourself a championship team."
"In this kind of game, you know, toss doesn't really matter because you have to play well, regardless of your bowling or batting."
"It's hard to win being smart because there's so much it's so much harder to understand like the impact of players who are really great leaders."
"I think if Patrick could slot into G2, Fnatic, Rogue, any of these teams easily, and there wouldn't be any change. If anything, there would be improvement."
"Steve brought in an offensive philosophy that really fitted us great."
"Muhammad Ali came out and defended himself and didn't throw any punches for many... and then all of a sudden, about the eighth round, Muhammad Ali let loose and he knocked out this young, young 23-year-old world heavyweight champion George Foreman."
"If they are not going to take a quarterback, I think it is mandatory that you take advantage of the fact that another team would, and you recoup surplus draft capital for that."
"This is our two-year window. Gotta win the Super Bowl this year, and then we're out of here anyway."
"We are gonna be very very difficult to stop but this is where our window is, this is it."
"I don't have to touch the ball to impact the game."
"Javonte Williams is a franchise demon. He's going to get really good."
"Great season for him, Javonte Williams. If he always does this, we are set for the rebuild."
"Amazing season for Jerry Judy, potential Dev trade upgrade."
"Finally, the year is 2027, we have finally put together a playoff run."
"Hell of a season, and we are in such a good position to run this right back."
"The Titans...got a quarterback late because their team is so stacked."
"Detroit gave you this major opportunity. They took their foot off the gas, and therefore, y'all put the Ferrari in gear and caught up to them, and they couldn't turn back up."
"It's a marathon, not a sprint, but...great team performance."
"We're missing I think four first-teamers... so to be six points clear and have a lot of those players to come back, I think we're getting to the point now where we can really believe that we will get top four."
"All great teams are built from the defense onwards. Shut the back door; that will give more security to score goals."
"Their entire offense being back, combined with Kevin Stefanski being in his second year on the job, makes it easier to think their offense will be better."
"With great defense and a dominant running game, you could have your quarterback throw eight passes in a game and still win by three touchdowns."
"If he gets it right, then logically, Liverpool will be the team that will be up there challenging Man City."
"It's time that we pay some respect for respect is due and dissect the beauty in the GSP game plan."
"Just remember what Max you said, and I said, the last and impression: how do we end that game? Victory formation. Victory goddamn formation."
"Jade's offense is so sudden. She's always one kick away from a victory."
"The philosophy of Ten Hag...he's on the front foot, you know, he plays attacking football, he plays expansive football."
"We need to bring in people like Bruno Fernandes who are fit every week and make a difference."
"We're not playing with any flair or any reassuredness to say, 'Actually, we're gonna boss the game from start to finish.'"
"I would play him. I want all weapons on deck for Patrick Mahomes so he doesn't have to be Superman."
"We're in a fantastic position, but we just need to work on our finishing."
"Goals change games. There's no truer way to look at how that goal changed that game."
"In a hypothetical draft, at any age, I'm going to take Larry Bird just a little bit over LeBron James."
"The pilgrims definitely owe a lot to the Wampanoag tribe, especially after the first couple of brutal winters."
"We broke everything, but we fixed everything. A lot of defense, ratchet chefs on the best team NFC got it done."
"You can never have enough good edge rushers."
"Defense wins you championships; offense wins you games."
"We're not going into extra time. We have to mean it today, boys."
"If you're not starting Saquon Barkley in week one, you've made a massive mistake."
"When you have the highest average speed and you sail the shortest distance."
"I think that regardless, even though we're scoring, that we can do better to hold the ball for longer spells of time before we make every attack."
"You want to survive, right? Unless you're already a top player."
"Duke, they just... they go on those spurts, and it's all sparked by their defense."
"The adjustments so far out of Optic are huge."
"If you can get the ball to Cordarrelle Patterson, he's playing with a lot of emotion on the field right now."
"If you play good football, you'll win more games. It's very, very simple."
"Strikers win your goals, defenders win you titles."
"This could be the season in which the rebuild is complete."
"Every great side has a great spine, so if they are missing, they're never quite as good."
"The Seattle Kraken are gearing up to be an awful team to play against."
"So many teams are focusing on speed, maybe the market inefficiency is going big."
"there's opportunities here to get somebody who's who's a bonafide goal scorer and i think seattle does it by the time they hit the ice for the first time"
"You have to put the game to bed and we didn't. They kept pushing, they believed in themselves."
"Steve's most relevant point: 'At the moment I feel that we're playing not to lose and hoping to win. What we need to do is play to win and be brave.'"
"Moving Pedry to CAM worked like a freaking charm."
"He's always looking up looking to progress the ball forward."
"If you're going to play out from the back... you gotta have players who can play it."
"The real Difference Maker for Arsenal next season is about them transitioning into a team that have quality to control games, just irrespective of who plays."
"I think you can accomplish both of the things you want by regionalizing teams."
"A director of football should be taken away from the manager and doing so the manager can concentrate on what he needs to do with the team and the players to win games."
"Absolutely it's all about the fact they're having to attack and defend."
"Unfortunately, he didn't clear it the way that I thought he was going to, kind of gave it right to the opponents."
"The transitions of the game, both teams are so capable of hurting each other."
"Big Dom losing Dr. Greenlaw is like you can figure out a game plan losing big Dom."
"I'd go with Thiago, Van der Beek, and Sancho. Yes, it leaves the defense unresolved but I think we pick up way more points than we did last season."
"Just play narrow and take the point, please."
"If professional is your zone just go and play professional... it's more worth getting the win and getting the points then trying too much and losing."
"We want to play like Liverpool or Arsenal, and if we're going to do that, we need to clear out the players."
"Shanghai is just a better team across the board. When you look at what they have on tank, on support, like everything across, they are just better than London right now."
"Size really matters... you can't beat the Elite big ones because size really matters."
"I'm feeling like EA's making all these center backs crazy and I'm worried. I'm worried that this is going to be a really defensive game. I'm freaking scared guys."
"Reverse sweeps is what makes dodgeball such a great game. When it all comes down to that final moment, it's why I think the change to best of five worked the best."
"Games are not won in the first, second, or third quarter; they're won in the fourth quarter."
"If we're not going to get these referee decisions, we've got to put them beyond unreasonable doubt with the goals."
"We've done the defense, we've done the playmaking, we've done the shooting."
"What can he do differently against Floyd Mayweather that no one else has? That's the big question."
"F1 is so much better when there is varying strategies and this race proved it."
"He forced him wide Ron has shuffled him out Freddie Rasmussen had all the battery but he didn't have the momentum."
"That's a problem, they rarely make mistakes, they're positioning, their executional teamfights, and their engagement. It's just so, so very well thought-out and so precise that it is hard to get control back against the Titans."
"Any one of them can sweep your team, and they absolutely do."
"Changing the manager takes all the pressure off and changes the narrative."
"That might take it away, Jayden, I don't, that might have been the biggest upset of the night, what was your mindset going in playing this art? Well, I mean, on defense I got a 7-3 wingspan, so that's hard to go against."
"Defense wins games and the dudes like one of the best defensive centers of all time how you gonna run around in circles."
"You give that little bit of experience to a back three that are very good on the ball."
"You've got to have a vocal point in your team. You've got to have someone who you can go to, and Ronaldo was that man."
"I want to sign Ndidi because he's 23 and he's Premier League proven."
"A lot of people think it's just a jab, but you know what we've seen in this sport? The jab can cut you open and knock you out."
"Centers don't win titles unless they have that awesome second guy."
"The fight will be fought on Tyson's terms." - Frank Warren
"He's trying to pass from the pocket with Lamar, never do that, Lamar's cracked, you just gotta play like a crackhead with him."
"The Lions have eaten up the clock with the running game."
"Those are the things that they have to figure out in order to make the rotation."
"It's difficult to defend a team that are physically very better than you."
"I'm prioritizing the positives of the skill set because I know that the negatives in all likelihood will be minimized. That's just what good coaches do."
"It's glaringly obvious that Kyle Shanahan's trademark is running the football." - Skip Bayless
"They lost Stefon Diggs and they went out and got a new Stefon Diggs for their offense."
"That's a cracking game, it's been tactical chess."
"Theo Hernandez is the best left back in terms of FIFA, so we do need him in the squad."
"If you're the Cleveland Cavaliers you are in desperate need of a boom-or-bust pick here."
"Boldest trade in franchise history. You got to take risks and this is a risk we were willing to take."
"General manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan still have nine selections in the 2021 draft."
"Teams are trying to find versatile players and turns out we've got a versatile player right there."
"You need to be bringing in talented players who... have the ability to take their places in the next couple of years."
"For me, it was like I wouldn't have Sancho and Bruno because then I think you've got to win four nil every week because they can't both get goals and assists. I hope they do."
"If you're going to play Fantasy Premier League, you cannot have club loyalty."
"If the season was to finish today, they would have skipped that step and they're now in a position where they can go straight for the top shelf."
"The giants have gone out there and gotten a big play receiver and the best one the giants have had since they pretty much started the rebuilding. Kenny Galladay is a big time weapon."
"They know they want speed, Henry Ruggs is your guy."
"Conor McGregor needs to implement more movement, more footwork."
"He wants to stay close and make this a good boxing match where he can showcase his boxing skills but do that from the inside."
"Football is just an RPG, it's a strategy game played by people who have leveled themselves up physically in real life. Let's go!"
"I truly believe if Trey Lance and Mac Jones are both sitting there at number nine and they decide to go quarterback, they will go with Mac Jones over Trey Lance." - James Palmer
"The only manager in the world that could rely on free agents... give him a minimal shoestring budget and he can still produce results."
"Promotion to the top flight has been pretty lucrative... however we continue on this free agent moneyball tactic."
"It's coventry city's free agents to finish his champions league winners."
"Love that. Offers a ton of different versatility for the Giants."
"Getting Tristan Wirfs at 13, solid value to protect Tom Brady."
"We've already used the Sancho replacement to help Dortmund achieve the ultimate goal."
"Madison's movement was the biggest factor in Sun getting his hat trick."
"Real ones know though that if this goes 12 hard rounds if this is more chess match then shootout it'll be a different fight in some degree than we expect."
"In five rounds pressure will create a stress stress creates a fatigue five rounds favors Nate I'm taking Diaz in an upset."
"We're deploying personnel, we're deploying resources, and testing is literally expanding around the country by the hour."
"I'm a willing passer as well, of course I want to be aggressive, of course I want to score but you know I'm trying to win the game at the end of the day."
"I think that Fnatic are going to have better strategies prepped..."
"Those are the plays you want to give him the ability to feel confident making."
"The victory, they just need to not knock it out or get any more points."
"Liverpool got this one over the line; they effectively won a race that nobody else knew that they were even in."
"We are gonna have to get a win at Monaco to be any chance of winning this championship."
"I think they can construct a Pistons type roster."
"Midfield is more important than any other position for United right now for us to improve."
"Summer split teams that don't make changes normally when they start the split come in really strong."
"You almost need to put Fury down a couple of times to beat him."
"It's a run game that makes a difference in this. Nick Chubb has been really excellent."
"I think some Villa fans were wondering how Coutinho and Buendia were going to play together. They seemed to do it very well for the last 20 minutes."
"Matthew Stafford, a huge upgrade over Jared Goff."
"Just get a striker who can put the ball in the back of that and lead the line."
"You do not give the greatest player of all time chances to come back in a match that is just plain simple how it goes."
"He demanded for men to bring the game. That's as an offensive player what you want."
"Team versus the gimmick everybody else is the gimmick versus like Bulls was a bulls was a big small lineup you know they was 66 66 67."
"We need a striker who can lead Manchester United into a title charge next season."
"Decisive movement and trusting your game plan."
"So if we'll recap for our draft is ready for year four we got Zack Harrison the best pick for us I mean maybe the best value picking the entire draft he's good."
"Draft running backs in the first round and only good things will happen."
"What you're not getting with AJ Brown is volume guaranteed volume."
"Giving Giannis a ball in the perimeter with a big man on him is like giving an American a shotgun in the trenches."
"It wasn't about player performance, you know anybody who knows anything about football knows that was about tactics." - "It wasn't about player performance."
"Eventually, the goals will come because, like you said, we're playing very comfortable."
"It's almost as if no game plan could work against this unit."
"Attacking tactics let you choose how your team plays in each half of the pitch."
"If you need to shoot for the running back 30 on the week, Latavius has a real shot at getting there every week."
"I mean, if two of these guys could just go on vacation... I mean, the role is great, you know, but they utilize the fact that they have three for misdirection, and it's why their tight end position does so well."
"This is it, big time, Bo baby. I want to chop that tree down, and that's what I'm planning to do."
"Soccer is a weak link sport. You make a team better by upgrading its worst player."
"What a beautiful play to put the faith on the rookie."