Sentence examples for gaining separation from inspiring English sources

Much has changed for Burress over the last six years — the prison stay, for starters — and he sometimes appears to have trouble gaining separation from cornerbacks, unable to stretch opposing defenses as he once did.

Celek exploited the Jets' ineptitude at covering tight ends by repeatedly gaining separation over the middle, catching five passes for 156 yards - the most against the Jets all season and the most by a Philadelphia tight end since Pete Retzlaff in 1965.

By contrast, Geno Smith's percentage of dropbacks when his time in the pocket is at least 2.6 seconds is the highest in the league, 65.2, as much a product of the Jets' receivers' difficulties at gaining separation as his propensity for holding onto the ball too long.

He gained separation, a rarity in a race so short.

Neither team could gain separation in a defensive battle.

Patten ran a semi-curl, out and up route, that gained separation from cornerback Dexter McCleon.

The lighter-weight defensive ends attempt to hit, gain separation and then speed upfield.

He overthrew some passes and underthrew others, but his receivers also struggled to gain separation against the cornerbacks.

Wheel patterns use the defense's initial, hard reaction to a first move to gain separation: the defender breaks hard right, the receiver breaks hard left and free.

From nearly any place on the field, quarterback Kurt Warner can unleash a bomb, his receivers gain separation from defenders and smoothly run underneath it and catch it.

Witten juked him off the snap, beating him inside, and gained separation about 5 yards from the line as he ran a seam route.