When another Matrix portfolio company was recently trying to close a CRO candidate, the hiring team knew a long commute would be an obstacle.
There's a little playoff maxim we have at The Morning Skate: If you have a chance to close out a team on home ice and fail, you're in trouble.
The Patriots are so young that they must have wondered if they would be able to close out a team as talented and resilient as the Steelers.
A magic number is a number used to indicate how close a team is to clinching a playoff spot.
Speaking on a patio at Whisper's mansion-turned-office off Venice Beach, Zimmerman said he had just moved to Los Angeles to be closer to a team of employees who search for trends and news by monitoring the 30 new Whisper posts each second around the clock.
We went to close out a very proud team.
The Giants' inability to close out a game has plagued this team so many times this season that Tom Coughlin's job is now under threat.
"It is important that we consider that we are as close to a team as we have ever been starting in January," he said.
Liverpool simply could not switch from a team chasing goals at 3-0 to a team needing to close the back door at 3-1.
