How to Use passing game in a Sentence

passing game

noun
  • Parsons is quick enough to stay with a tight end in the passing game.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 26 June 2023
  • How will the Eagles stock weapons for their passing game?
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • That could mean more production from tight ends in the passing game.
    — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 15 Aug. 2023
  • If this looked like a college passing game at times, that's by design.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2023
  • There’s not much anyone can do against Darnold and this passing game right now.
    — The Athletic Nfl Staff, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • That player lifts the whole offense up and opens up a lot of stuff in the passing game.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Maybe their running game will take up the slack if their passing game isn’t clicking.
    — Elliott Teaford, Orange County Register, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Some might even say the two were too committed to the passing game early on.
    — Ainslie Lee | [email protected], al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • All were active in the passing game, though none broke free for big runs on the few hand-offs called in team drills.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 24 July 2025
  • The game seems to move more slowly from his perspective with each passing game.
    — Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • But give me the versatile running backs who play all three downs and are weapons in the passing game.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Willingness to run is opening lanes in passing game.
    — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2025
  • If stats hold up, this might be OSU’s best chance to show off the passing game.
    — Ndaschel, oregonlive, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Houston could see its passing game take another leap.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 May 2026
  • But his role in the passing game diminished over the final three months of the season.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The Chiefs could use a running back who doubles as a factor in the passing game.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 18 Apr. 2025
  • That’s going to take better timing and rhythm from Nix in the passing game.
    — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The need to rationalise his performances with each passing game is not a good sign, though.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Problem is, that the same sad song the Dolphins have been all season long about the passing game.
    — Miami Herald, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Rookie Brashard Smith, meanwhile, added some spark to the team’s passing game.
    — Jesse Newell, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The big question will be if the cold throws off the passing game, while neither snow nor major winds are in the forecast.
    — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The Chiefs excelled against the Giants’ passing game.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2025
  • But protecting the quarterback and then being able to catch the ball in the passing game.
    — Dj Siddiqi, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • She is joined by senior libero Logan Hurwitz in the passing game.
    — Aj Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Just a week ago, the Lions were intent on taking away the Chiefs deep passing game.
    — Sam McDowell 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Washington’s passing game is iffy, and its defense is struggling.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Gadsden has the size, speed, route-running and hands to be an impact player in the passing game at this level.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 31 July 2025
  • Three straight TDs by the offense followed, two of them from a resurgent passing game.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Williams is coming off his first 350-yard passing game and his first two TD throws.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • These are Baker Mayfield’s top-two targets in the passing game.
    — Vincent Frank, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024

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