snapping point

The March 10 failure of Silicon Valley Bank threw the outlook into turmoil, and while the situation has settled down, the sense of flux seeped deeply into the debate about what the Fed is likely to do with a suddenly tricky decision over how to keep pressure on the economy to slow inflation without pushing a swath of midsized banks to the snapping point.

At snapping point or still plenty of elastic left?

The loss of Beckham deprives Cleveland’s offense of a weapon capable of stretching a secondary to its snapping point.

The loss of Beckham deprives Cleveland's offense of a weapon capable of stretching a secondary to its snapping point.

The loss of Beckham deprives Cleveland’s offense of a weapon capable of stretching a secondary to its snapping point.