Aikman Observations About The Offense

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doomsday9084 said:
Aikman is obviously right. No need to debate what a moron says as far as the radio guy.

Remember Beasley? His routes were basically all 7 yard ins and outs. He didn't have the speed or size to go downfield. Because of his inability to run a bunch of patterns from the slot, it took away a lot of route combinations for the entire team.

Dak lovers will enjoy this. Remember how many complained about all of Dak's short throws? Well, put a late career Witten on the field with Beasley. You had two guys who were going to go out a few yards and sit down. Teams basically could tell their safeties not to worry about half the receivers going out and just worry about the wide outs. As a result, teams could easily take away the long throws and just force Dak to dink and dunk all the way down the field.

IMO, this year is going to be sick offensively. Jarwin can run the seam. Dallas can move WR's around and put Coop or Lamb in the slot with any of them being able to get downfield. Safeties are going to have to be watching everyone which means they will make mistakes.
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I lived in Washington DC area for years and Chris Cooley used to be a radio guy and I remember a couple of years back, the game against Commanders, he was breaking down the cowboys and his comments was the Beasley is easy to take out of the games since he only runs two routes and you can usually know the route based on the formation they run and he went through the few of the formations.....essentially saying, it was predictable and limited. I have always argued, if DCs know what's coming, you have to be really really good at what you do or the defense really really not talented, because otherwise the DCs will stop you cold.....that's why disguising, motion, scheme has become really important....teams like SF or Cowboys of the 90s don't exist any longer, when you knew what was coming and you still couldn't stop it....
 
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cern said:
I would prefer the opinion of the greatest broadcaster today, tony romo. Though i do think aikman is right for the most part. But dez's last year, it was dez and his inability to get open and not beasley who was the problem. The offensive woes should be treated systematically, not necessarily independently.
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Hey just call up MM and tell him. Maybe he'll hire you and puppydog.
 
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CowboysFaninHouston said:
I lived in Washington DC area for years and Chris Cooley used to be a radio guy and I remember a couple of years back, the game against Commanders, he was breaking down the cowboys and his comments was the Beasley is easy to take out of the games since he only runs two routes and you can usually know the route based on the formation they run and he went through the few of the formations.....essentially saying, it was predictable and limited.
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Wow, that's the first I've heard that about a Garrett offense.
 
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CouchCoach said:
Aikman is knowledgeable about the game and privy to the best minds in offense in today's game. He has always been a McC fan, going back to when he was an OC. He was the same way about Andy Reid.

I've always believed Troy would have loved to have played in the WCO and has an affinity for coaches from the Walsh tree.

His observation about WR's getting open goes back to when we'd see Jerry Rice get the ball. Usually, the announcer would say something like "how does that happen? Everyone in the stands and on the field knew the ball was going to him". It happens because great offensive minds were at work to get him free. That's what he's talking about.

One of the things I like about McC over the previous HC is his penchant for getting the matchups. He did that really well when he had a healthy WR corps in GB and made obscure players into household names. I think going in he thought he might have the best tandem he's had but when he saw Lamb falling into their lap, he had to be ecstatic. Only disappointing thing to McC is they'll still only let him use one ball.
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Aikman likes the big M&M because he is a QB whisperer just like Norv, Andy, Walsh, McVay, and Arians.

Aikman would never work under Jerry Jones. Too much under water friction and Jerry would never give up the control.
 
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doomsday9084 said:
Aikman is obviously right. No need to debate what a moron says as far as the radio guy.

Remember Beasley? His routes were basically all 7 yard ins and outs. He didn't have the speed or size to go downfield. Because of his inability to run a bunch of patterns from the slot, it took away a lot of route combinations for the entire team.

Dak lovers will enjoy this. Remember how many complained about all of Dak's short throws? Well, put a late career Witten on the field with Beasley. You had two guys who were going to go out a few yards and sit down. Teams basically could tell their safeties not to worry about half the receivers going out and just worry about the wide outs. As a result, teams could easily take away the long throws and just force Dak to dink and dunk all the way down the field.

IMO, this year is going to be sick offensively. Jarwin can run the seam. Dallas can move WR's around and put Coop or Lamb in the slot with any of them being able to get downfield. Safeties are going to have to be watching everyone which means they will make mistakes.
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trolls were told this. They were proven dead wrong.
 
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TwoDeep3 said:
There was a discussion a few days ago that involved some comments by Aikman. I thought them to be interesting, but promptly forgot to put them here.

Aikman is a huge Mike McCarthy fan. He stated he has been for a long time. In his job he has had plenty of opportunities to be around Mike and he came away with the idea Mike is a very innovative head coach.

One of the more interesting comments he made was about offense. This was a general commentary and not necessarily about McCarthy.

Aikman said the failing of a three receiver set came down to the weaknesses in the third WR. The slot guy. He went on to explain the slot really creates opportunities for the outside guys because of how the slot creates space. The outside guys rely on the slot to move interior defenders to either open up areas for the WRs or create confusion to mix up the double team.

As a side note, one of the radio guys said he did not agree with that at all. Then went on a short litany on what he believed. He went on to say Aikman has been away from the game long enough to suggest that makes no sense.

My immediate thought was a Hall-of-Fame player at QB, who has access to offensive coordinators, and is best friends with Norv Turner surely hasn't lost a step in this game with knowledge of play calling and how team's get people open in the passing game.
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Not to mention a guy who watches a buttload of tape every week in preparation for the game he calls every week. A HoF QB would have to be drinking a lot to let the game pass him by right under his nose.
 
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TwoDeep3 said:
As a side note, one of the radio guys said he did not agree with that at all. Then went on a short litany on what he believed. He went on to say Aikman has been away from the game long enough to suggest that makes no sense.
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Sounds like PAPPYDOG
 
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DakPresgoat said:
That Aikman is out of touch with the modern game?
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Aikman is also personal friends with a bunch of the Head Coaches and Coaches from his playing days. He is friends with Jason Garrett and you could really tell that late in the season when the writing was on the wall for Garrett to be canned.

Aikman isn't commenting from watching tape, he is getting the information from the horses mouth.
 
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Verdict said:
Aikman is a beloved Cowboy but I wouldn’t trust him on personnel matters. He was David Lefleur or bust at some point.
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Thank you, I appreciate your counterpoint. So if you don't trust Aikman with personnel matters, is his support of Dak getting paid an example of why you feel that way?
 
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doomsday9084 said:
Aikman is obviously right. No need to debate what a moron says as far as the radio guy.

Remember Beasley? His routes were basically all 7 yard ins and outs. He didn't have the speed or size to go downfield. Because of his inability to run a bunch of patterns from the slot, it took away a lot of route combinations for the entire team.

Dak lovers will enjoy this. Remember how many complained about all of Dak's short throws? Well, put a late career Witten on the field with Beasley. You had two guys who were going to go out a few yards and sit down. Teams basically could tell their safeties not to worry about half the receivers going out and just worry about the wide outs. As a result, teams could easily take away the long throws and just force Dak to dink and dunk all the way down the field.

IMO, this year is going to be sick offensively. Jarwin can run the seam. Dallas can move WR's around and put Coop or Lamb in the slot with any of them being able to get downfield. Safeties are going to have to be watching everyone which means they will make mistakes.
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Was the fault beasley's or poor playcalling.
 
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JoeKing said:
Thank you, I appreciate your counterpoint. So if you don't trust Aikman with personnel matters, is his support of Dak getting paid an example of why you feel that way?
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No. I’m pro Dak as a general rule. You are barking up the wrong tree and painting with too broad of a brush.
 
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Watching Aikman A Football Life for the first time right now. Makes me cant stand Jones even more.

He made it no secret he quit because Jerry had no clue.

Ran Jimmy out of town too, among many other things...

Wasted a decade on his hand picked puppet and we are still counting the damn decades of futility.

Forget championships....they havent come CLOSE.

All I know if this MM thing had better work for Jerry as I'm not so sure how much more patience we ought to have.
 
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TwoDeep3 said:
The radio station is 105.3 in Dallas. This show was after 6pm. Like most times it had started before I tuned in.

I have been listening lately, and it seems this particular show and sports commentator does this all the time. They have Broaddus on occasionally. But this one guy always seems to take the opposite position from the players or coaches on their opinions.
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You’re not talking about the gbag nation are you? Broaddus is on that every day and I thought that was a decent show

I also thought they were earlier in day so you could be talking about the show that follows it and I don’t listen to that much
 
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No. I’m pro Dak as a general rule. You are barking up the wrong tree and painting with too broad of a brush.
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I'm not barking up any tree. I'm just asking questions. So if you agree with Aikman's position on the personnel matter of Dak, what did he do to lose your trust?
 
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