The Patriots have a great offensive line, and Atlanta's pass rush had been more middling than great this year.
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The biggest change internally is the switch from last year's cutting edge Snapdragon 845 to a much more middling 640.
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It's unfortunate that Future Man is tarred by this familiar dynamic and this current cultural moment, because it's more middling than malevolent.
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It is the plot of the coming-of-age story, grist for dozens of classic 19th-century novels (and yet more middling 20th-century movies).
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Cibulkova, who reached a career high of No. 4 in March last year, has had more middling results this year, with a 14-13 record.
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Nathan Morlando's more middling coming-of-age film "Mean Dreams" is bolstered by a career-best supporting turn from Bill Paxton as an alcoholic father.
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The other major averages have more middling performances — the S&P 73 has a modest two-day win streak and the Nasdaq has lost ground in three of the past four sessions.
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They are both top-10 teams against the run, and they are both more middling against the pass — though some advanced metrics suggest Baltimore's pass defense is better than its raw yardage totals suggest, which is backed up by last week's dominant win over Houston.
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" He further criticized that aside from the support for four players without the use of a multitap, the game make poor use of the Nintendo 64's capabilities, with 2D graphics and a low frame rate. He went so far as to say that the Super NES version of NBA Jam looks equally good and plays better due to the more appropriate controller. The two sports reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly had a more middling response. Joe Rybicki, similarly to Gerstmann and Next Generation, said the game "offers basically nothing new, except updated players and bigger character sprites.
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Lesley Smith of Eurogamer criticized the game for a number or reasons, including bad stylus recognition, boring gameplay, terrible graphics and rigged, repetitive mini-games. IGN's review was one of the most scathing, dubbing Crash Boom Bang! "a terrible, terrible game with poor organization" and "easily one of the worst games on the system". More middling reviews have come in from Official Nintendo Magazine, who felt the game was hampered by dodgy controls and a testing user interface, and Pocket Gamer's Jon Jordan, who dismissed the game's collection of minigames as "distinctly average and oddly passionless".
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" The sound and music was met with mixed response. Perry said that the sound effects were "as good if not better than last year's game," but called the music "truly uninspired" and compared it to "a series of generic riffs extracted straight from the bad heavy metal of the dour mid-'80s." Liu was critical of the voice-acting, noting that "most of these guys sound just sound wrong" and that "the announcer is completely devoid of excitement; instead of getting pumped up for an exciting match, I felt more pumped up to go do something else... anything else." His response to the rest of the audio was more middling, saying that the sound effects are "good, but nothing new" and the music "isn't very impressive -- typical fighter fare, with a few choice selections, funneling down to some bothersome noise.
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The Line of Best Fit's Andrew Hannah called the album "a brilliant work of art" and praised how, despite being from 1983, it still sounded "uncompromising and utterly vital" in 2014 (a sentiment that Alex Biese of Asbury Park Press echoed). Jason Heller of Pitchfork appreciated the brutality of Filth and noted how it effectively established what Swans would become, and Joseph Rowan of Drowned in Sound highlighted the album as a nearly perfect form of intense, angry music burdened with the downside of becoming exhausting; in a more middling review, AllMusic's Ned Raggett concurred that Filth becomes tiring in its latter moments, but said, "in small doses, though, it's great, and early Swans really is like little else on the planet before or since". Jake Cole of Spectrum Culture wrote, "the music presented in this collection often sounds like a preemptive parody of Swans’ most extreme moments rather than the first instances of them, but, when it connects, the visceral impact of this fearsome band is evident from the start". The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Scott Mervis said that Filth makes "most punk and metal seem like ear candy by comparison".
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