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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreenBlood" data-source="post: 463827" data-attributes="member: 1198">So what?  Are you telling me if he had called that play in the 3rd quarter and it played out exactly the same way, it would NOT be MM's fault but because there was 8:30 left in the 4th quarter when it happened, somehow that means it IS his fault?  Nonsense.  It's a false pretense.  I don't think you understand that we simply don't have the horses up front to play that game.  For our run game to be effective, we MUST use the threat of a pass to keep the defense from putting 8 in the box.  For us, if you're not willing to throw it every few plays, you might as well take that knee.  And we're not talking about the last 4 minutes of the game here, BTW.  We're talking about 8 minutes on the clock, which is PLENTY of time for your opponent to score 3 touchdown if you keep going 3 and out.  At that point of the game you still want to keep those chains moving.  Running ALONE isn't going to do that for us.  The play call by MM was perfectly reasonable, even within the context of the game situation.</blockquote>

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