Sentence examples for underachieving team from inspiring English sources

He sat inside the dugout at Dodger Stadium as his underachieving team scattered across the diamond to take batting practice Friday afternoon.

That the Jaguars were outbid by the New York Jets a talented but underachieving team comprised of reality show contestants and people too harrowingly sociopathic to survive even a Real Housewives vetting process, who are led by handsomely mediocre quarterback Mark Sanchez and a bellowing foot fetishist of a coach was both puzzling and fascinating.

A month ago, Vaughn was hitting.226 and might have been the most underachieving player on an underachieving team.

He was the biggest mystery on an underachieving team.

"He's got a gift, and that gift helps us win hockey games," said Peter Laviolette, who was hired as Philadelphia's coach on Dec. 4 to lift an underachieving team.

During a spring training meeting, he challenged the Angels to stop being selfish and to do whatever it took to win, the kind of words an underachieving team needed to hear.

While Townsend has succumbed to hamstring trouble, a thoroughly frustrated Shelvey devoted the Bournemouth game to wagging admonitory fingers at underachieving team-mates signed by Graham Carr.

Amukamara smiled when it was mentioned that making his debut at home against a tattered, underachieving Eagles team would probably be better than making his debut eight days later in a Monday night game in New Orleans against Drew Brees and the explosive Saints.

As a fan of four criminally underachieving Philadelphia teams, I understand this concept all too well.

"I love the Eagles," he said, referring to Philadelphia's beloved but underachieving professional football team.

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