WoodysGirl
10-04-2012, 12:30 PM
Oct 4
10:31
AM CT
By Todd Archer (http://search.espn.go.com/archer_todd/) | ESPNDallas.com
IRVING, Texas -- If you were wondering where Five Wonders was this week, we just pushed it back a little because of the bye.
With no further ado, we give you the wonders:
** After Monday's debacle, Tony Romo (http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/5209/tony-romo) pledged to "do his job" and not try to do too much in the future. I wonder why it takes games like Monday's (and last year's against Detroit) for Romo to come to realization, but I wonder more about what it means going forward. Here's what I think (or wonder): He will take more sacks. And that's a good thing, believe it or not. Too many of us want to just kill last year's offensive line by always bringing up the career-high 36 times Romo was sacked in 2011. In the first four games last year, he was sacked seven times. Quick math says he was sacked 29 in the final 12 games. He went from getting sacked 1.8 times per game to 2.4 times a game. And he had his best season. There's a health risk to taking sacks obviously, but there's something also about living to fight another day. Twice Romo has climbed the pocket in as many weeks and looked to flip the ball forward and twice he's fumbled. Both times, the Cowboys were in field goal range. Last year Romo showed he could still be Romo, meaning make plays when things break down, but he could do it in a somewhat controlled fashion. I wonder if he goes back to that way of thinking.
** Jason Garrett has been calling plays here since 2007. Generally I think the reaction to playcalling is completely overrated because all anyone says is, 'How can you call that play?' when it doesn't work. It's a second guesser's dream. I wonder if Garrett should allow offensive coordinator Bill Callahan to take a crack at it a few times in games. Garrett talks about the collaborative effort there is during the week in coming up with a plan and how that is factored into the playcalling. Well, when you've scored 65 points in four games, you can't just keep doing the same thing over and over, can you? It's not unheard of for playcallers to do this. Bill Parcells let Sean Payton and Tony Sparano take turns when they were with the Cowboys. Callahan has called plays before. I say this and should point out the Cowboys have had a ton of drops, too many penalties and missed throws. But sometimes, a fresh voice can just break things up.
Read the rest: http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4698904/5-wonders-will-tony-romos-sacks-increase
10:31
AM CT
By Todd Archer (http://search.espn.go.com/archer_todd/) | ESPNDallas.com
IRVING, Texas -- If you were wondering where Five Wonders was this week, we just pushed it back a little because of the bye.
With no further ado, we give you the wonders:
** After Monday's debacle, Tony Romo (http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/_/id/5209/tony-romo) pledged to "do his job" and not try to do too much in the future. I wonder why it takes games like Monday's (and last year's against Detroit) for Romo to come to realization, but I wonder more about what it means going forward. Here's what I think (or wonder): He will take more sacks. And that's a good thing, believe it or not. Too many of us want to just kill last year's offensive line by always bringing up the career-high 36 times Romo was sacked in 2011. In the first four games last year, he was sacked seven times. Quick math says he was sacked 29 in the final 12 games. He went from getting sacked 1.8 times per game to 2.4 times a game. And he had his best season. There's a health risk to taking sacks obviously, but there's something also about living to fight another day. Twice Romo has climbed the pocket in as many weeks and looked to flip the ball forward and twice he's fumbled. Both times, the Cowboys were in field goal range. Last year Romo showed he could still be Romo, meaning make plays when things break down, but he could do it in a somewhat controlled fashion. I wonder if he goes back to that way of thinking.
** Jason Garrett has been calling plays here since 2007. Generally I think the reaction to playcalling is completely overrated because all anyone says is, 'How can you call that play?' when it doesn't work. It's a second guesser's dream. I wonder if Garrett should allow offensive coordinator Bill Callahan to take a crack at it a few times in games. Garrett talks about the collaborative effort there is during the week in coming up with a plan and how that is factored into the playcalling. Well, when you've scored 65 points in four games, you can't just keep doing the same thing over and over, can you? It's not unheard of for playcallers to do this. Bill Parcells let Sean Payton and Tony Sparano take turns when they were with the Cowboys. Callahan has called plays before. I say this and should point out the Cowboys have had a ton of drops, too many penalties and missed throws. But sometimes, a fresh voice can just break things up.
Read the rest: http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4698904/5-wonders-will-tony-romos-sacks-increase