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defensive
adjective as in protective, watchful
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Mr Williams, a defensive player from Georgia, was a college star at Georgia Southern University before being drafted by the National Football League’s Detroit Lions.
They corrected a lot of their defensive issues, sprinting back in transition and cleaning up Memphis misses off the glass.
She didn’t return the one against the Patriots for a score, but it did set up a touchdown pass from Emily Wagner to Meadow Moore in the first half that put Birmingham on the defensive.
Chargers defensive line coach Mike Elston and safeties coach Chris O’Leary, who both coached at Notre Dame during Hart’s career, knew the 6-foot-2, 207-pound prospect brought unique and necessary toughness to the position and lobbied for him in the scouting process before the Chargers drafted him in the fifth round.
“They’re on fire right now, as far as that connection, and we know they’re gonna throw the ball,” Fulton said, “and that’s what you live for as a defensive back.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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