Sentence examples for to the backfield from inspiring English sources

Adding Tomlinson to the backfield would give the Vikings a powerhouse combination with Adrian Peterson.

Giants quarterback Eli Manning knows the routes the Cowboys pass rusher DeMarcus Ware takes to the backfield.

Four Horsemen, name given by the sportswriter Grantland Rice to the backfield of the University of Notre Dame's undefeated gridiron football team of 1924: Harry Stuhldreher (quarterback), Don Miller and Jim Crowley (halfbacks), and Elmer Layden (fullback).

Our support group is also full of N.F.L. players, like the recently discarded running back LaDainian Tomlinson, although he may be feeling better because the Vikings are reportedly considering adding L. T. to A. P. (Adrian Peterson) to the backfield to wait for B.F. (Brett Favre) to make his next nonpermanent decision on retirement.

As the linebackers drop back in pass coverage, they will keep glancing to the backfield, waiting to react if Garcia breaks from the pocket -- which he did only twice at Giants Stadium in September, when he threw for just 166 yards.

He was hoping that his recovery would go so well that the following season he could return to the backfield of the Chicago Bears, where he had teamed with Gale Sayers, who was to running backs what Jascha Heifetz was to violinists.

Yet after his 1946 M.V.P. season, he announced he was quitting professional football, saying he had been too battered by it and would return to Virginia to become the backfield coach.

Whenever a Broncos running back tried to leave the backfield, Bynes bumped him to disrupt the timing of his route and make him take longer to get open.

Marion Barber should return to fill the backfield void, but Denver has allowed only 16 points in three games; if the Broncos are half as good as their numbers, they are twice as good as expected.

While Casey has been known to flee the backfield quickly and did not earn first-string status until his fifth season, Palmer started as a freshman and is projected as the pocket-protected nucleus of Coach Paul Hackett's attack for three more years.

"He needs to tweak his pad level and base mechanics, but he can win with quickness off the snap, launching off the line to penetrate the backfield.