Sentence examples for defensive down from inspiring English sources

Ray Mickens remembers only the weariness after the Jets' game against the Miami Dolphins, the physical toll that playing every defensive down took on a player used to playing only on passing downs.

It was next to last in defensive third-down efficiency.

Wallace, 37, has earned a reputation for being a hard worker, a tough defensive shut-down artist and resolute rebounder.

For Whom the Bell Tolls, from Ride the Lightning, has become a stadium sports theme, with several baseball players using it as entrance music, as well as the Denver Broncos, before defensive third-downs.

Brushing up against greatness (Norman Mailer, Bette Davis, the incomparable Groucho), he is like a fame-drunk autograph hound, though that eager-­peevish quality served him better on television: articulate obsequiousness balanced by a joke writer's instinct for the snappy rejoinder or defensive put-down.

That's when your defensives come down and you get scammed.

It got so bad for Oklahoma State that Brown said that McCoy became upset at the Texas defense for scoring and told the defensive players, "Fall down so we'll get the ball every now and then".

To a large extent, defensive success boils down to effort.

"We weren't going to back down," defensive end Mike DeVito said.

Our whole defensive front was down, our whole team was compressed around the ball.

"Have you thought about how this is coming down?" defensive end Osi Umenyiora asked Coughlin in the locker room.