Cowboys name TE's coach and assistant OL coach....

[Rack Bauer]

Originally Posted by Bluestang

All offenses are designed around the basic passing concepts and route combinations. In other words your going to run some sort of flood combination routes to beat zone coverage or a smash combination to beat man. What you said is right on the money - kudos.

Smash combos were designed to be zone coverage (though it's not like it's a bad route combinations vs man). Forces the CB to make a decision. If he drops back to the corner, you hit the curl. If he stays tight on the curl, you throw the corner. If the corner comes up on the curl and the safety overplays the outside taking away the corner, you need to have a TE or RB out of the backfield hitting the seam.

[jnday]

Originally Posted by superpunk

how many good coaches are going to roll through and fail at "coaching up" our terrible talent along the offensive before we realize that they aren't bad coaches, we just give them nothing to work with?

Houck was a prime example. He did a great job with Tyron. He done well with the talent he had. I was not a fan of Callahan before he came to Dallas. I sure don't think he is the saviour that he was made out to be. Tyron has regressed, even Free is worse under Callahan. I am not a fan.

[Bluestang]

Originally Posted by Rack Bauer

Smash combos were designed to be zone coverage (though it's not like it's a bad route combinations vs man). Forces the CB to make a decision. If he drops back to the corner, you hit the curl. If he stays tight on the curl, you throw the corner. If the corner comes up on the curl and the safety overplays the outside taking away the corner, you need to have a TE or RB out of the backfield hitting the seam.

You would want the TE running a post in order to put the safety in conflict to decide to cover the post or the corner.

Either way it's a good combination to beat a 2 man-under defense.

[jnday]

Originally Posted by xwalker

Damien Woody was an offensive lineman for Bill Callahan for three years with the New York Jets, and he can’t say enough good things about the Cowboys' new offensive line coach.

“He’s a meticulous man,” Woody said. “He’s not going to leave any stone unturned. That’s the one thing about him. He’s meticulous in everything: the classroom, on the field. He’s a real stickler on technique. But the one thing I like about him is he listens to the players. He’s open. His whole thing is he’s not going to make players do something they’re not comfortable with. At the end of the day if the players feel like it worked better one way, he’ll listen.”

The Jets’ line had something called the “Breakfast Club,” and they would meet before the rest of the team would get in the building to start the day.

[View Full Quote]“We always had the longest meetings of probably any position group on the team because we just went over everything,” Woody said. “Every little detail we’d go over.”

With the Jets, Woody said Callahan worked man and zone blocking schemes.

“When I first got there, we were kind of like a power, just straight man-on-man blocking,” Woody said. “But as time wore on we incorporated the zone more into our blocking schemes. He’s versatile. We did both and were successful with both with the Jets. It doesn’t matter to him. He knows how to get it done the way the offensive coordinator wants to get it done.”

Callahan escaped from the Jets as the line fell apart. They had a couple good years and the wheels came off. Woody is one of the few that I know that cared for Callahan. The Rsiders certainly didn't like him and he wasn't that well liked at Nebraska IIRC.

[jnday]

Originally Posted by dfan32

That's interesting. I wonder how Nutt rubs his players? Actually, I was wondering if we dropped Nutt. I keep hearing there is a vacancy at RB coach and I thought Nutt was named the RB coach. Any updates?

Nutt had a bad interview was the last thing that I read.

[Rack Bauer]

Originally Posted by Bluestang

You would want the TE running a post in order to put the safety in conflict to decide to cover the post or the corner.

Either way it's a good combination to beat a 2 man-under defense.

Not necesarrily, cuz then you might just run the TE/RB into the other safety. If you run him down the seam you either pull the play side safety away from the corner route, or that safety stays on the corner forcing the backside safety to come all the way over. A post would work if the ball is thrown on time, a seam is better cuz it puts more pressure on the playside safety but at the same time there's less of a chance of the backside safety being able to get over and help.

Of course if you're facing a tampa 2 with a good MLB he'd be able to take away the seam and post anyway (or at least give a smaller window for the QB to throw into).

[Bluestang]

Originally Posted by Rack Bauer

Not necesarrily, cuz then you might just run the TE/RB into the other safety. If you run him down the seam you either pull the play side safety away from the corner route, or that safety stays on the corner forcing the backside safety to come all the way over. A post would work if the ball is thrown on time, a seam is better cuz it puts more pressure on the playside safety but at the same time there's less of a chance of the backside safety being able to get over and help.

Of course if you're facing a tampa 2 with a good MLB he'd be able to take away the seam and post anyway (or at least give a smaller window for the QB to throw into).

We could go back and forth all day, in the end though the point is to beat the man in front of you.