41.   McVay feels an absence of this continuity elsewhere accounts for the dearth of consistently elite teams in the NFL.

42.   Miami may be the one elite team the Knicks have the best chance to beat.

43.   Most of all he will provide the grit in the corners that helped the Kings prove they could play with the elite teams.

44.   Newly elected Republican congressmen parachuted into the Capitol in January like an elite team of Rangers.

45.   No quarterback plays like him and none playing for elite teams face his current circumstances.

46.   Orlando is an elite team with much to prove.

47.   Our focus for those games has to be just as good as for the so-called elite teams.

48.   Sauls, wielding folksy aphorisms to fend off the enormous pressure of the elite legal teams arrayed before him, essentially tried to steer a middle course.

49.   Some elite teams did step up.

50.   Still, strange things have a way of happening to the so-called elite teams come playoff time.