Twitter: Baldinger: Receivers are running straight to defenders

[Roadtrip635]

Now our offense have our receivers head straight to the defenders and wait there. And people here expect Dak to throw to them? Absurd I say!!

Dak can hit receivers in stride. He can throw deep. He doesn't have a noodle arm. Just give him plays that he is comfortable with. Plays that doesn't take an entire 10 seconds to develop and him dropping back into the pocket. We need more slants, rub routes, bootlegs and especially more passes from RPO and play action. Simple plays that even an high school team can run. None of these old, plain vanilla plays that Garrett/Linehan likes to run. That playbook needs to be burned and Garrett and Linehan needs to be kicked to the curb.

I say also sprinkle some no-huddle now and then too. Defenses hate that and Dak seems to do fairly well with it.

 

[ConstantReboot]

but but butt..I thought Lal fixed all that )

Blame goes to Garrett not Lal.

Its Garretts playbook that we are using.

 

[ConstantReboot]

I say also sprinkle some no-huddle now and then too. Defenses hate that and Dak seems to do fairly well with it.

Yes exactly! There is no need for a slow methodical, boring offense. Dak excelled in Ole' Miss just with RPO, quick passes, and hurry up offense using Dak's running ability. Garrett's offense resembles none of that.

 

[Legend]

Dallas has to sell Dak, with their ‘changes’, however limited, because they benched a beat elite QB for a bum (using this relatively, he’s more than fine as a backup) who can’t throw outside nor deep, in an offense that was built on attacking deep.

They totally destroyed a short SB window, when all pieces were in play.

Now we got posts on this forum about whether or not we need to rebuild the OL and is Smith done...

Dak had an excellent 2016.

The problem in 2017, Zeke was suspended for 6 games.

- The Triplets won 70%+ of their games when they played together. They barely won 50% of their games when one of them did not play.
- Case in point, after winning their 1st SB title in the 1990s, Emmitt did not play in the 1st 2 games and the Cowboys looked terrible with Derrick Lassic at RB.

The problem in 2018, Dak's receiving corps were downgraded and OL is breaking down.

 

[jterrell]

Dak does not throw timing passes. Aikman threw the ball in a certain location before the WR finished the route.

That required a WR to run precise routes while shielding off the defender.

Therein lies the issues.
This is a timing based offense but Dak doesn't trust his WRs other than Beasley to be where they are supposed to.

Aikman would have quit if these were his WRs.

A WR hit in the center of his chest and it bounces off for a pick?

Aikman fired the ball as well and he expected guys to catch it.
He also wouldn't have handled all these penalties and cavalcade if missed TE blocks.

 

[Legend]

This is the impact that 1 missing player can have on a loaded team. The impact Emmitt had on the 1993 Cowboys during the 1st 2 games of the season.



The reason why Dak did not do as well in 2017 when Zeke was out and is performing worse in 2018 with downgraded WRs and TEs.

The 2018 Cowboys are not loaded.

 

[Mr Cowboy]

Dallas has to sell Dak, with their ‘changes’, however limited, because they benched a beat elite QB for a bum (using this relatively, he’s more than fine as a backup) who can’t throw outside nor deep, in an offense that was built on attacking deep.

They totally destroyed a short SB window, when all pieces were in play.

Now we got posts on this forum about whether or not we need to rebuild the OL and is Smith done...

Here we go, our problems are all because Romo was benched 2 years ago.

Do yourself a favor and go back 5-6 years in this forum and read the 100's of threads that were made on a daily basis, trashing Romo just as Dak is being trashed. You should know, you've been here a while and were here back then. Posters here were bashing Romo over the same things Dak is being bashed about. Weeden and Cassell as well. If you can get beyond your hate for Dak, you'll see the problem for any QB in Dallas will always be the stupid HC and his offensive philosophy.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

"They're hard to watch, man. Really hard to watch."

Once again....coaching matters. Our playcalling sucks.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Are they suggesting we run where defenders arent?

Thats not how we do things

Defenders will never expect it!

 

[America's Cowboy]

It’s been pretty obvious for years now Dak can’t throw the outs and the Dallas offense works outside in. It’s also obvious the play-calling of Linehan is limited by Dak’s capabilities.

All this stuff was obvious during Dak’s first year too.

This gets back to the question, who benched Romo over Dak and who made these decisions to not let Romo even have a chance to compete for the job again knowing Dak’s limitations, particularly evident in practice..

I’m telling you, it was most likely Garrett the Ingrate, the latter obviously threatened by Romo’s influence on the team and the reason why he was sacked from play-calling in the first place and Stephen the arrogant cheapskate... and if Linehan, being a Garrett connection, was a part of it despite knowing Dak’s limitations, than he needs to be canned today as well..

Hahaha, pure nonsense. You were doing good with your previous post. Then had to lose all credibility with, "It’s been pretty obvious for years now Dak can’t throw the outs."

SMH, what games have you been watching for the past 2+ years?

 

[Roadtrip635]

Yes exactly! There is no need for a slow methodical, boring offense. Dak excelled in Ole' Miss just with RPO, quick passes, and hurry up offense using Dak's running ability. Garrett's offense resembles none of that.

Yep, mix up the pace, pound and wear out the DL. Don't let them sub players, a little misdirection during all this. Give the defense something new to think about

 

[Roadtrip635]

Therein lies the issues.
This is a timing based offense but Dak doesn't trust his WRs other than Beasley to be where they are supposed to.

Aikman would have quit if these were his WRs.

A WR hit in the center of his chest and it bounces off for a pick?

Aikman fired the ball as well and he expected guys to catch it.
He also wouldn't have handled all these penalties and cavalcade if missed TE blocks.

I think he's beginning to trust Thompson too. I hear people say that Dak has to make tight window NFL throws, the players have to make tight, NFL catches too.

 

[doomsday808]

This is good example of opposing team's game planning. The opposing team being better prepared. I can almost guarantee you that we are not going to change anything up. We are just "...going to work to get better each and everyday...." blah, blah, blah. You think Scott would have caught this sitting in the booth?? Thanks Baldi!

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

A live look at our WRs against their DBs:

WRs, "Shouldn't we stop and go around it?" Coach, "No, keep running straight at it. They'll wear out eventually. Just do your job and you'll execute with ease."

 

[Clove]

T.O. played more games/seasons (since Irvin's career was cut shot) and in more pass happy offenses... and averaged 73 yards receiving per game while Irvin averaged 75 yards receiving per game.

TO could take a 3 yard pass and take it to the house on a normal basis. Anyone would like that.

 

[silvrNblue]

I just watched a youtuber Aokya I think, cant recall, he broke down our plays last Sunday by route, and you know what.... a good 98% of them were curl, hook and or out routes. But just about everyone of them had the receiver coming back at the QB? Why in hell would you do that consistently through out a game you are LOSING at? After his first talk on it, and using arrows on the screen to show what the WO's were doing, it only took 1 to 2 till you just sat there and went yep that reliever, and the middle receiver and that WO are ALL running comeback routes. There was hardly ANY slants and not a single rub route among them... not saying that is all that is wrong, but OMG can we run anything other then button and hook routes? Someone please tell me, how would a defense NOT be able to defend what you know is coming? Answer, they didn't, they played single high and a few 2 deep and this anemic offense couldn't do squat, because there were not but a handful of plays where one of our receivers was even close to being open. They baited the middle and Et just waited for that stupid forced pass, which he eventually got. These coaches need to go period, end of story.

 

[khiladi]

Hahaha, pure nonsense. You were doing good with your previous post. Then had to lose all credibility with, "It’s been pretty obvious for years now Dak can’t throw the outs."

SMH, what games have you been watching for the past 2+ years?

Watch the Denver game and how much Aqil Talib was sitting on his passes, which ultimately led to two pick 6s..

 

[Bleu Star]

These suggestions are all great but does anyone have a personal lifeline to Linehan? If not, this is all just fan noise. Perhaps they're just working a bit harder this week.

 

[America's Cowboy]

Watch the Denver game and how much Aqil Talib was sitting on his passes, which ultimately led to two pick 6s..

Understood. That was Dak's worst game of his career. Plainly took a dump and forgot to flush! Still, he has made those throws many times before.

 

[khiladi]

Here we go, our problems are all because Romo was benched 2 years ago.

Do yourself a favor and go back 5-6 years in this forum and read the 100's of threads that were made on a daily basis, trashing Romo just as Dak is being trashed. You should know, you've been here a while and were here back then. Posters here were bashing Romo over the same things Dak is being bashed about. Weeden and Cassell as well. If you can get beyond your hate for Dak, you'll see the problem for any QB in Dallas will always be the stupid HC and his offensive philosophy.

You should go back to my threads calling out how garbage Jason Garrett was in 2008 and how much he’s making it impossible for Romo to succeed and all the Garrett homers were making excuses for this clown, hiding behind TOs fault, no second WR, Wade couldn’t discipline the locker room, Garrett was better because he made Barber wear a tie, Romo allegedly kept checking out the run plays Garrett was calling, Dez didn’t know how to run routes or he was dumb and that’s why the routes were basic, it’s all the defense, Garrett just didn’t have an OL though he handpicked the OL coach and the pass routes were all slow developing and Garrett had no hot routes for a blitz and so on..

Not sure what your taking about, because I among a few were wanting Garrett fired from the very beginning.