Madden 2001...Why do I sometimes lose the ability to throw the ball?

Well, that\'s pretty much the question.  But it can be a serious one!  Somehow every once in a while, I must apparently mash some combination of buttons or choose a particular play or something...but regardless, what I end up with is a QB that only pumps the ball.  When this happens, I can press any and all buttons I desire and it just does not matter...my QB is gonna get sacked or else I have to scramble him out of the pocket and run for yards.  

What is going on here?  Not only is this upsetting for me, but on the instances I\'ve had others over to play with me it has happened to them as well.  Again, this is met with the same response...aggrevation.

Please offer assistance.  I\'d love to know that I\'m just doing something quite retarded and that I can avoid it in the future with just a little information from the masses.  Thanks in advance!

- w1ngman

I have a feeling you\'re talking about the dreaded \'evil triangles\' that have been mentioned here before. I\'ve had this happen before where all my receivers suddenly get triangles above them and my QB refuses to throw the ball. I experimented a bit and found out that it has something to do with the hot routes you can call. If you press triangle and then X or O (I think) it does that for some reason. About the only way to stop it is to hit triangle again before the play and hit square or triangle (I believe, like I said I\'m not sure why it does this). The manual isn\'t very clear on how this works, but if you experiment a bit before the play you should be able to stop it from happening. Hope this helps.