Can the anti-Dez scheme be replicated week to week?

[EGTuna]

It is real simple, it comes down to the ability of the opposing defense to feel confident in stopping our run game with their front 4, leaving their secondary and even some LBs to flood zones behind the DL.
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Exactly. To get one of those Safeties from lining up 20 yards off the LOS and shading Dez, you need to have success running the ball. Callahan seemingly wasn't interested in that. The run game is not as important as the passing game, but if a team is playing Cover2-Man-Under, as the Giants were all game, then you have to successfully run the ball vs. the 7 man front to get one of those safeties to drop down. That will open things up for play-action, which they didn't do enough.

Bunch formations are also good, because in the Cover2-Man-Under, the CBs are playing man, and it's harder to man-up vs. a bunch.

Nevertheless, Romo played very, very well given the circumstances.

 

[reddyuta]

take the underneath stuff and some screens although romo is not a good screen guy.

 

[birdwells1]

Yea, I was looking at Andre Johnson last night thinking "he's the only real threat at wr they have and he's catching 12 balls, what gives?"

 

[visionary]

Yea, I was looking at Andre Johnson last night thinking "he's the only real threat at wr they have and he's catching 12 balls, what gives?"

exactly
i think SD did not realize he is a good WR

 

[Toruk_Makto]

It better not be able to.

I'm pretty sure AJ Green is on most teams radar and he still kills it.

Victor Cruz wasn't on Dallas' radar last night?

It's the chess game. Teams work to take away certain players, offenses have to work to overcome it. Dallas didn't get the job done in that regard. There were 2 and sometimes 3 guys flooding to Dez. There is no excuse for not having an answer when you're playing essentially 8 on 10 outside of Dez and his three defenders.

If other teams can replicated it to the same extent the Giants did it will be long season.

You have to look at the multitude of our offensive weapons. Miles and Witten and Williams and Demarco don't demand we force the ball to our workhorse.

Cincinnati and the Giants to a lesser extent don't have that luxury. It's why you see so many AJ green catches where he is double covered. You never want to be throwing into double coverage. AJ Green accounted for 60 percent of the Bengal pass yards. Too high and unsustainable.

We can't have it both ways... Dez dominating every game and 3 to 4 other viable pass catchers taking advantage of single high looks.

The curse of plenty.

 

[TheSport78]

I've always wondered why the Cowboys do not motion their WR's pre-snap. This could eliminate many of our problems.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I think we were a little caught off guard by it. The thing about Dez is he's brilliant at beating the double team. So if they want to stop Dez, we need to get the pass protection in order to allow Dez time to beat the first defender....then Romo has to beat the second defender. I thought the Giants were ripe for a double move from Dez as well. And we had people open underneath all day as well. Tough to not take those.




YR

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

I think Romo mentioned the Giants showed Defensive formations that he had never seen from them, basically taking away the big plays and leaving spots open underneath. Given how successful it was, I would expect other teams to mimic it until Dallas puts in countermeasures.

 

[Frozen700]

Calvin and Dez both got the same treatment...as they should. 2 of the best.

 

[conner01]

looked to me like miles and witeen did take advantage of it. miles had 10 catches, thats a 160 catch rate. witten had 8 catches, thats a 128 catch rate. williams stepping up will help alot but i think you have to get harris involved more. if a team sells out to stop a guy it's not hard to do. running the football better makes it harder for a team to keep that man over the top so that would help alot dez did have 4 catches and should have had a couple more if the defense had'nt just tackled him and the officials let them get away it it on some plays

 

[CATCH17]

Happy with the win but Dez is supposed to dominate. That was a meek offensive performance by all parties involved. Is it easily countered? Can't look forward to outings like last nights and feel confident we can scare people.

It's not Dez Bryant's fault. IT's a busted scheme that allows defenses to dictate what we do.

IF they double him than Dallas will just keep running him off into coverage and try to dink and dunk to Witten or Austin.

That usually ends with penalties and mental mistakes. We're a big play team and when teams take away the big play we don't do much to confuse defenses to get guys open down field.

Our only hope is that we get really good at running the ball or a light bulb goes off at valley ranch.

Some teams won't always play 2 deep safeties though and we'll light them up but the book is out on how to slow down the Cowboys. Play a soft D and wait for self implosion.

 

[conner01]

Yea, I was looking at Andre Johnson last night thinking "he's the only real threat at wr they have and he's catching 12 balls, what gives?"

notice they have a running game. if you can run the ball and force a team to bring up 8 guys then lots more things open up down the field

 

[Denim Chicken]

Not every team will be able to blanket Dez and stop the run as well as NY did in this first game. They were tackling well, also. I take it as an aberration. If other teams mimic this strategy, something will break.

 

[Zordon]

it better not be replicated. garrett and callahan are paid to make sure this doesn't happen frequently.

 

[SDCowboy]

They need to find a way to get Dez open. He's great but you can't expect the ball to get thrown into double and triple coverage to get the ball to him.

 

[sbark]

I think we were a little caught off guard by it. The thing about Dez is he's brilliant at beating the double team. So if they want to stop Dez, we need to get the pass protection in order to allow Dez time to beat the first defender....then Romo has to beat the second defender. I thought the Giants were ripe for a double move from Dez as well. And we had people open underneath all day as well. Tough to not take those.




YR

I think that is part of the problem.........that our coaching staff was caught off -guard at all, with no in game adaptations available.
It reminds me of Romo looking thru the playbook on TV during the last Skins game last yr.......searching to no avail to find a answer to what the Skins D was giving him..........
the NfL is a copycat league.......Garrett just has to copy the bunch formations, crossing routes, Dez in motion.........Hanna taking the Safety deep on a post up the hashes......

I see the cowboys feeding on Dez........just as they fed off of Mike Irvin in the 90's............it gives the team confidence

 

[EGTuna]

The worriesome part is that KC faced arguably the most inept offense in the NFL last week, so it will be harder to gameplan vs. their Defense, as they weren't forced to adjust much or worry about a good passing game. KC's secondary and Front7 (so...their entire D I guess) is very good. Perhaps better than the Giants, so Romo will have to continue to be patient, and the boys MUST run more frequently and with more success. I foresee a low-scoring, nail-biter.

 

[CATCH17]

Yea, I was looking at Andre Johnson last night thinking "he's the only real threat at wr they have and he's catching 12 balls, what gives?"

They have the threat of a running game and a superior offensive scheme. Making the safeties play up and those linebackers pause a little helps a lot.

 

[Clove]

There is no reason we can't get Dez the ball, period.
No bunch formations?
No sending Dez in motion?
No dez in trips slot right or left?
No dez motioned to the back field?
No dez dragging across the field?

No innovation at all. I can tell you this, you're not going to stop me from doing what I want to do if I'm a Coach. We did get the win, but our offense was less than effective. Thanks Defense for the two touch downs, and thanks Special teams for the gift inside the 30. Those accounted for probably 17 points. Take those away, you have 19 points, and we get stomped again. Our offense has problems, and if we sweep those problems under the rug because we won, then 8-8, here we come.

 

[jrumann59]

The giants were not blitzing a lot so they always had 6-7 people in coverage it makes it easier to cover the intermediate and deep zones especially if your DL is doing an adequate job on the run.