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Message: [QUOTE="rmtsu, post: 71551, member: 785"] Not that there haven't been open receivers from other teams, but we've seen plenty of times where we've had good coverage but the QB has not thrown a perfect pass and the WR slows down and goes up over our DB who either can't locate the ball or miss times his jump and makes the catch. Nassib can't seem to understand that he needs to trust his WR's and give them a chance to catch the ball, last year he more often than not threw the ball out of bounds on deep throws, this year at least he is keeping the ball in bounds, but usually out of reach of the receiver. I don't know whether or not they actually work on this at practice but its frustrating to see nearly every deep ball thrown such that nobody can catch it. As far as running, again we've seen plenty of instances of big slower QB's who have taken off and picked up 1st downs on pass plays against us, Nassib will have the 1st down available if he took off sooner but doesn't and we get a sack. Now there is a fine line between always giving up on the pass to soon and running all the time but, at this time Nassib has enough experience where he should be better at making that decision, realize we need to get the 1st down, move the chains and get a new set of downs. When we've run hurry up the last couple of games it seems like we've forced the D to call a timeout. I don't remember specifically but seems like in the limited amount of time we've run it we forced defenses to have to try and slow us down. We just haven't done it enough. Unfortunately the way this offense is run, we can't afford to have many negative or small gain plays. Other teams seem to be able to recover better from long yardage situations, but we don't seem to be able to. But its indicative of our inablility to hit passes down field. Until we do we will struggle offensively. In the second half neither team did a good job defensively but UConn came up with the one stop and that was all it took. Again having to use short yardage pass plays, on the bootleg the LB came up and forced Nassib to not be able to get outside and to stay deeper and have to throw a longer pass, combine that with Lemon not coming back to the ball and that was all it took, one mistake to give the ball back to UConn at a time when we couldn't stop them, and we needed to score and may have won the game with a TD on that drive. Lots of problems with the team, but Nassib needs to play better and be able to make plays, Marvin Graves TD-Int ratio was about 1:1 for his career, not great, but he was able to make big plays throwing the ball and give WR's a chance to make a play, sometimes taking chances will result in an int, but the upside can be much greater. Nassib for the experience that he has just hasn't develop that moxy or swagger that the good QB's have. Sometimes its just confidence, but in some cases, the player just doesn't have it, and is a big reason why some guys that don't have superior physical ability can play very well, when others who pass the look test never do. [/QUOTE]

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