"He's been the guy that's been very, very solid, very reliable, very dependable back there," Coach Tom Coughlin said of Webster.
Publicly, Mancini has said little about the decision to abandon last year's fairly dependable back four, but Richards' suggestion that they haven't practised it that much made the use of it on Wednesday night a fairly remarkable gamble.
Rating: 5.5 Michael Parkhurst: Throughout this tournament, Parkhurst is showing himself to be a dependable right back.
The Yankees buried the Red Sox, who trail them by nine games in the American League East, and hope they got a dependable pitcher back in Mussina.
For years, he was a solid, dependable left-back with an anachronistic mop-top, a perennial understudy to the flashier Ashley Cole in the England team.
"When you don't have Tyson in there," Smith said, "you really don't have that dependable tip-back offensive rebounder who can also set screens for wide-open shots".
There has been a bit of skepticism, though, about the talent on the other end of Brady's passes, aside from star tight end Rob Gronkowski and dependable running back James White.
There can't be many more dependable full-backs in the country.
The 20-year-old joined Swansea on a season-long loan from Tottenham Hotspur after Swansea's promotion to the Premier League and Caulker is quickly establishing himself a reputation as a dependable centre-back.
Geoff Cameron is the steady, dependable center back the U.S. has been looking for.
And that's not counting Adrian Phillips, a former undrafted free agent who Telesco cut eight times before he emerged as a dependable defensive back, earning All-Pro special teams honors.
