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Message: [QUOTE="BostonOrange, post: 65673, member: 688"] Just to get the facts into this...we did actually throw it a lot in the first quarter. The first drive it is true that we did run the ball - the first play of the game for 4 yds and fumbled the handoff on the 2nd play. I wouldn't put that down as evidence that Uconn was stopping the run, only that we are incompetent. The next two drives we basically threw it except on short yardage. One drive ended on a bad throw by Ryan and the next on a really bad pick by Ryan. The last drive of the quarter was the one we started at the 4 and predictably went run-run-pass-punt. I put that down more to Marrone not trusting Ryan, which given the previous two possessions was understandable, than anything else. There is this fallacy that we ran it into the line every play of the quarter and that simply isn't true. Look...maybe we are too conservative but when Nassib is the QB it is pretty tough to air it out on every play. [/QUOTE]