| Compare the top quarterback in a minor football league to a benchwarmer with the Dallas Cowboys, for instance. |
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| Compared to growing up, Rose figured life as an NBA benchwarmer was not so bad. |
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| But if either approaches his former talent level, Offerman will become a highly paid benchwarmer. |
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| Take a pass in hopes that next season's offerings will bring a change of pace to this career benchwarmer. |
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| No player this season has gone from benchwarmer to franchise stud like Randolph. |
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| Much maligned when he was Liverpool's most expensive benchwarmer, Friedel is now much praised as Blackburn Rovers' top backstop. |
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| If this were a sport, El Paso would be a benchwarmer, watching the first-stringers — the people who put some real effort into the game. |
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| He's been a benchwarmer, an NFL Europe experiment, an instant success, an injury waiting to happen, a free-agent prize, a near bust, a Pro Bowler and a Super Bowl champ. |
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| Lin, of course, was an inconsequential benchwarmer before last week's win against the Nets, which fans could have seen on the YES Network. |
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| This time Scottsdale and Glendale will still fill big roles, but Phoenix won't be a benchwarmer. |
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| The suddenly celebrated Lin is a four-fer: a God-fearing, Asian-American, Ivy League benchwarmer who has changed the fortunes of the New York Knicks. |
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| Wolves benchwarmer Jamie O'Hara allegedly cheated on his wife of two years after meeting a woman at Bushwackers nightclub in the city centre. |
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| Pujara may have lost his place in Punjab's XI, but as it happens to any benchwarmer in a winning dressing room, his spirits are high. |
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| Then another benchwarmer, Danny Ward, pounced three minutes into added time to seal it. |
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| Having suddenly transformed from benchwarmer to inspirational figure, Lin takes every newspaper in America and turns each one into a repository of silly puns and half-baked ramblings about racial perceptions in sports. |
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| Martinez revealed that Robles has not just happily accepted the role of benchwarmer since coming to Goodison. |
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| Miami Heat benchwarmer Dexter Pittman decided to get his name out there during garbage minutes of the Heat's game four victory over the Indiana Pacers. |
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