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Message: [QUOTE="Old Scout 65, post: 3977820, member: 661"] Go back to the Rutgers game. Early in the 4th quarter TD was sacked. Not blaming him for the sack as a lineman right in front of him was blow up and a sack was inevitable. However, he saw the sack coming, failed to secure the ball and fumbled. The resulting Rutgers field goal made it a two score game. With 2:55 left in the game SU gets the ball on about their own 16 yard line, needing two scores and having no timeouts. What does every quarterback know and understand about this situation? 1- You can't take a sack. 2- You can't use the middle of the field. 3- You have to work the sidelines (to stop the clock). 4- You have to throw beyond the first down marker ()so that the clock is stopped even if the receiver is can't get out of bounds). The O line pass protected for the seven plays about as perfectly as any line could. Not once did a Rutgers defensive lineman break through and TD never had to throw out of desperation . The seven plays: 1st down- After five full seconds of protection TD ran up into the offensive line where a D lineman was able to disengage and tackle him for a sack. 2nd down - After about 4 seconds TD completed a pass of about three yards to Tucker in the middle of the field. 3rd down - TD again standing in the pocket finds Tucker in the middle of the field for about four yards. On fourth down TD is unable to find a receiver and runs for a first down. Instead of running out of bounds he cuts away from the sideline and is tripped up in bounds allowing another 10 seconds to run off the clock after the chains are moved before the ball is snapped. It's now first down and TD throws his first sideline pass, short of the first down marker and incomplete. On second down TD finds Tucker again in the middle of the field five yards. On third down with the clock down to less than 50 seconds TD makes his first pass of more than 10 yards - it is intercepted. TD, in his fifth year in the program is quoted after the game as saying, he's done everything he needs to do to be the starting quarterback. [/QUOTE]

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