11.   Bill Cowher loses football players year after year, but Bill Cowher wins football games year after year.

12.   A second player is lost in the second round and teams get to protect three more players before the third and final round.

13.   After they lose one player, they can bring the other three back.

14.   Also blown in on the wind were snippets of news from the North that New England was losing offensive players almost by the minute.

15.   Boston found itself outmanned in a scoreless first period when it lost two players.

16.   But he kept losing players to free agency.

17.   But they could lose other players.

18.   But the Wildcats lost three players to the NBA, and then potential NBA first-round pick Derek Anderson suffered a season-ending knee injury in January.

19.   But when we lost those players, there was a real vacuum.