SDCowboy
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did a 4th guy make the pro bowl that I missed?
No clue. I'm not the one that said there were four. lol
Good catch.
did a 4th guy make the pro bowl that I missed?
No clue. I'm not the one that said there were four. lol
How do you stretch the field with this personnel and playbook? Even in 2014....Romo wasn't stretching the field...he had to extend plays to mask this awful playbook.
The problem is not the playbook. That's some horse smack excuse used by people on this board to make some off the wall point. "Oh, yeah this offense is from the 90s, so outdated and antiquated, ain't fooling nobody," they'll say.
Look up Bill Belichick's offense. Save you some time. He runs a modified Earhardt-Perkins system developed in the 1970s under Chuck Fairbanks! Holy Smacktalk Batman! If the 90s is outdated and antiquated, the 70s must be a mummy and dinosaur bones by now.
AND ITS STILL WORKING!
How 'bout dat!
Now give this some thought.
How many holes are there in a running formation? Imagine that! So few places to run and yet Jim Brown, Gale Sayers, Leroy Kelly, Tony Dosett, Bary Sanders, Emmitt Smith, Adrian Peterson, and even Zeke Elliott can find yards! Do these guys know some secret holes they can run through? Or do they have the same places to run that everybody else does?
For the last 70 years you've had the same running lanes and that hasn't stopped running backs. (Unless you want to talk about Mark Sanchez, who tried to find a new hole and created the butt-fumble) Now see how foolish it is to blame the playbook?
So how do you stretch the field?
You do like Tom Landry did before he got Tony Liscio.
You do it like Ben Rothelisberger.
You do it like Aaron Rodgers.
You do what you have to do to do it.
Part of being a winning team is imposing your will.
Sometimes you have to improvise.
But you can't let the other team dictate what you can do.
The playbook ain't calling plays. Scott Linehan is.
And just because Linehan don't call it, doesn't mean its not available, (evidenced by Chris Jones fake punt.)
Now if none of that sinks in watch Cooper Rush......
Yeah, he's playing against 2ns stringers and NFL wannabes, but what was Dak playing against in the Philly game?
To all you Dak haters, this is the number of TDs and INTs he passed/ran for in the first 8 games before Zeke's suspension, while adjusting to 2 new starters on the OL, and beforeTyron got hurt. No, he did not play well the second half of the year with/without Zeke and Tyron. But maybe, just maybe, next year he is the player we saw the first half of the season, not the second. Especially if we get a more creative OC and playmakers with separation ability at WR and TE.
He was also something like 2nd or 3rd in total TDs at about the midway point of the season.
There were holes in his game the first half of the season, but that split of games was lightyears ahead of what he did during the final 8 games.
The problem is not the playbook. That's some horse smack excuse used by people on this board to make some off the wall point. "Oh, yeah this offense is from the 90s, so outdated and antiquated, ain't fooling nobody," they'll say.
Look up Bill Belichick's offense. Save you some time. He runs a modified Earhardt-Perkins system developed in the 1970s under Chuck Fairbanks! Holy Smacktalk Batman! If the 90s is outdated and antiquated, the 70s must be a mummy and dinosaur bones by now.
AND ITS STILL WORKING!
How 'bout dat!
Now give this some thought.
How many holes are there in a running formation? Imagine that! So few places to run and yet Jim Brown, Gale Sayers, Leroy Kelly, Tony Dosett, Bary Sanders, Emmitt Smith, Adrian Peterson, and even Zeke Elliott can find yards! Do these guys know some secret holes they can run through? Or do they have the same places to run that everybody else does?
For the last 70 years you've had the same running lanes and that hasn't stopped running backs. (Unless you want to talk about Mark Sanchez, who tried to find a new hole and created the butt-fumble) Now see how foolish it is to blame the playbook?
So how do you stretch the field?
You do like Tom Landry did before he got Tony Liscio.
You do it like Ben Rothelisberger.
You do it like Aaron Rodgers.
You do what you have to do to do it.
Part of being a winning team is imposing your will.
Sometimes you have to improvise.
But you can't let the other team dictate what you can do.
The playbook ain't calling plays. Scott Linehan is.
And just because Linehan don't call it, doesn't mean its not available, (evidenced by Chris Jones fake punt.)
Now if none of that sinks in watch Cooper Rush......
Yeah, he's playing against 2ns stringers and NFL wannabes, but what was Dak playing against in the Philly game?
Yep, many seem to have forgotten how well he was playing in the first half of the season. That doesn't make up for how bad he was in the second half, but I'm still willing to give him a good chunk of next season to return to form.
Your examples are poor, everyone improved or stayed roughly the same between their first and second year except for Brees. And even then it wasn’t the giant RGIII fall off of a cliff that Dak forced us to watch.Thank you.
The haters should also take a look at second year numbers for Drew Brees, Donavan McNabb, Tom Brady, Matt Ryan etc and than slowly move away from the ledge.
Ben Rothliesberger had his worst statistical performance in his third year.
Not that it matters either way, but....he won the raiders, giants, and skins games which were all elimination games. you're moving the goal posts when the ball looks to be going through.
he went 3-3 without zeke and won 3 of the 4 total elimination games this year.
For a long time, an “elimination game” had to have 3 qualifications:Not that it matters either way, but....
No, no they weren't mathematically. Plus often a true elimination game (a seriously stupid term to begin with) involves TWO teams trying to prevent elimination. Otherwise, one has more t play for.
But like I said, I think the whole concept of "elimination games" (outside of actual playoff games) is silly anyway.
Just as assigning TEAM wins and losses to one player is beyond stupid.
So trueFor a long time, an “elimination game” had to have 3 qualifications:
1) the lights must be shining bright
2) Tony Romo must be playing
3) Tony Romo’s team had to lose (if they won, it then became a “regular game”)
22-10 in two years
Bortles played well this year...... he exceeded expectations by a mileBortles was 10-6 this year, losing the last two when everything was wrapped up for them.
Record doesn't mean the QB is playing great, just saying.
Bortles played well this year...... he exceeded expectations by a mile
Bortles was 10-6 this year, losing the last two when everything was wrapped up for them.
Record doesn't mean the QB is playing great, just saying.
Without ARobinson and AHurnsBottles played very well the second half of the season
Bottles played very well the second half of the season
Your examples are poor, everyone improved or stayed roughly the same between their first and second year except for Brees. And even then it wasn’t the giant RGIII fall off of a cliff that Dak forced us to watch.
Still, Brees was definitely worse in his second year. So all we have to do is hope Dak is the second coming of the guy who is probably going to hold all of the major all-time passing records. What could go wrong?