| It's very rare for a defender to gain accolades or praise when compared to the goal-getters or midfield playmakers. |
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| He calls out the plays and audibles, allowing the playmakers around him to feel more comfortable taking chances. |
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| The team desperately needs defensive playmakers and would love to find a ballhawking cornerback. |
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| Saban will miss quarterback Matt Mauck and the other playmakers on offense who graduated. |
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| He has speed, quickness and strength, and he's one of the team's top defensive playmakers. |
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| Because the team lacks playmakers, Ware's role on offense might be expanded. |
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| He's a marginal blocker, but the team needs playmakers, and he has a chance to be one. |
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| The team needs playmakers and will look at quarterbacks, running backs and receivers. |
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| That means the team with the most playmakers on offense will come up with the big plays that decide the game in the fourth quarter. |
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| He's one of the better playmakers in the game, and I don't worry about it at all. |
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| They have a hot quarterback, a solid running game, a vastly improved defense and playmakers on special teams. |
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| But that's a trade the team needs to make because the defense has few other playmakers. |
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| The team is looking for playmakers who will propel it into the playoffs again and for years to come. |
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| The offense lacks playmakers and experience at quarterback, so don't expect it to improve. |
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| On offense, the team lacks playmakers, and the approach has been too conservative. |
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| Carefully edited videos of East European playmakers, South American internationals and the next big thing out of Africa start piling up on desks. |
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| His ability to stop the opponents' creative play is much needed in a team brimming with playmakers. |
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| First, it brings back a productive player on a young offense that needs playmakers. |
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| Within a couple of weeks he'd sealed the deal that will put the two world class playmakers in harness, delighting Wanderers' fans. |
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| Still, there are a lot of options for teams in need of offensive playmakers. |
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| The priority is to add speedy playmakers who fit the team's new attacking style. |
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| She will turn 32 this summer, but remains one of the game's most skillful playmakers. |
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| If we can prevent their playmakers from settling into the game, then we'll have a better chance. |
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| The team lacks playmakers in the secondary who can stop late-game surges. |
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| At 33, the Norwegian star remains one of the top playmakers in the game. |
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| Thereafter, the wings Watson and Nowell were punted into sporting purgatory by the Irish playmakers, who revelled in the one-sidedness of it all. |
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| Today, perspiration triumphed over inspiration, style over sinew, brawn over brain, athletics over aesthetics, attrition over attraction and haymakers over playmakers. |
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| Only playmakers of real class can conjure magic out of thin air. |
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| Bob Cousy, playing at Holy Cross College and later for the Boston Celtics, was regarded as one of the game's first great playmakers. |
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| The Argentina and Brazil playmakers dominate the tournament rankings in terms of passing and crossing. |
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| On his good days, however, there is no doubt that Deco is one of the great playmakers of world football. |
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| More recently, the likes of Zico, Socrates and Ronaldinho have carried the standard as pure playmakers for A Seleção. |
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| A 4-4-2 formation was perfectly suited to the burgeoning talents of playmakers Anatoli Mushinka and Mirdajail Kasymov. |
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| A successful manager has to mould playmakers into team players, and make sure they play in the right position. |
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| The 1960s, 1970s and 1980s saw an ultra-talented second wave of playmakers emerge in Europe. |
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| For playmakers looking for a responsive stick with unmatched balance and feel. |
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| His guile and vision make him one of the most renowned playmakers in North, Central America and the Caribbean. |
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| Despite the knocks and niggles that have cast a cloud of uncertainty over the encounter, both teams have their playmakers intact and ready to assume creative duties. |
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| One man who has achieved just that, however, is Alexsandro de Souza, one of a rare breed of playmakers who use intelligence, guile and technique rather than power to bring their team-mates into play. |
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| For example, it was striking that the Russian left and right backs were capable of threading through passes that you would normally only expect from midfield playmakers in other teams. |
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| If the 53-year-old decides to employ, as expected, a 4-2-3-1 formation at the global finals, the Kodaira native could play as a defensive midfielder or as one of the three playmakers. |
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| Salim is regarded as one of the best attacking midfielders and playmakers in the UAE and has played many matches for his country. |
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| New Thunder coach Dave Woods handed debuts to experienced playmakers Jono Rolfe and Tim Martin, but the end result was the same. |
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| A lot of people didn't know who we were, but as a team we all knew who the big playmakers were going to be,'' Scott said. |
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| We use the option to supplement our spread game plan and it has proved to be a great way to get the ball to our playmakers in the open field. |
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| It's no coincidence that the Knicks' newfound success followed the reacquisition of Felton and the signing of Jason Kidd, providing two capable playmakers. |
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| The Playmakers by Japanese artists KOSUGE1-16 looks to the venue's past as the first UK arts centre for children and young people. |
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| Playmakers Vernon Davis, Frank Gore and Michael Crabtree could make life tough for a struggling Eagles linebacking unit. |
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| Witness the case of Playmakers, an original drama series produced by ESPN chronicling the adventures of a fictional professional football team. |
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