So..
Do you think we have somebody who critiques Moore?
Is it just Mc Carthy or others?
The reason I ask is that Moore called such a poor game in the 1st game..
and things changed so radically in the Atlanta game with the play calls.
Where did this eminate from?
It can't just be they substituted Pepsi Light with original Coke as Moore's beverage on the sideline.
And if Moore is that psycho with his playcalling..how do we harness Good Moore and sit Bad Moore?
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Sorry for this being so long. But your questions created a much deeper reply than just a surface comment. And my reply might be full of bull nuggets.
I'm not certain anyone on this board has a clue to how the hierarchy of the coaching staff works. My thoughts are Mac reviews Moore's play calling. They surely have meetings to go through how he called plays. What worked and what did not. But again, this is only what I think and based on nothing.
Logically speaking the coaches review their work, just like the players. They are held accountable, just like the players. Where that might deviate is when the players receive the game plan, they learn their assignments. In the case of Moore, I suspect he submits a game plan and he and Mac go through it. Changes are made. I would suspect in the off season they review film of the opponents and have a skeleton game plan going into training camp. As more games are played, more information is gleaned and that game plan is honed to fit the possibilities of what the squads will face.
The playbook could have as many as 300 plays. That might be a low figure. It depends on how detailed the head coach is. Each week the offensive coordinator, or head coach, assembles the list of plays they will run in the game plan. The team practices those plays. Obviously there are routine plays they run every week. I assume both passing and rushing. So the gadget plays, or plays specific to the defense they will face if they find a weakness would be inserted for that week. All this added to the skeleton game plan of who the team is, rushing primary or passing primary, to evolve into what they feel is a winning strategy.
Prior to the first SB against the Bills, Jimmy was watching a sportscast leading up to the game during SB week. He saw the Bills running the shovel pass to the RB, He called up Dave Wannstedt and asked if the Bills ever ran that play during the season or play-offs. Wannstedt got back to him and said no.
Dallas practiced for that play, and stuffed the Bills every time they ran it. So the Bills brought out a play where they were certain the Cowboys were too aggressive and would open an opportunity. But good coaches and great ones like Jimmy Johnson were always vigilant and paying attention to the most minute detail.
My take on the first game and the results had many fathers that created that fiasco. The Rams were better than this fanbase thought. Dallas was unprepared. The new installation of a head coach and his philosophies and plays, married to the real issues brought on by this crazy year for everyone in this country had a hand
But, but, but, the Rams didn't play poorly. And while they changed a few coaches, there was not a wholesale adjustment needed for a new coaching staff. Those two teams were nowhere near apples to apples as far as the changes in coaching staff. Anyone who wants to use that comparison to claim the circumstances were equal are wrong.
The real folly I believe was the fan base assumed just because Mac watched 20 millions hours of football, he would then hit the ground running and install this juggernaut offense, completely discounting the issues of the day outside of football.
"We beat the Rams last year, so...." The extrapolation there is we should beat them again. No two plays are alike. The ball has two pointy ends and bounces funny. The Pats game last year is my example. I wonder if they played in Dallas out of the elements if Dallas would have beaten the Pats fairly handily. But then I am also applying the same logic I was calling out in this paragraph earlier. Fans are unrealistic. Me included.
I think fans are influenced by the media which was heralding the Cowboys in the off season. Last year Dak and company were the second most productive passing game. The press sees that and either takes one side or the other and talks up or down the franchise. Fan's expectations by nature are either sky high, or down in the dumps going into a season when the team missed the play-offs the year before. Expectations for every professional football team going into the season are rarely accurate.
I believe as time wears on, and health is regained, or at least doesn't get any worse, this offense will start to gin. What we saw on Sunday will be more the norm than an aberration. Moore will get comfortable with this offense, and his confidence will grow. Which means he will gamble a little more because of the confidence. The results is the offense will become a little more unpredictable. He is young and still in a position which is teaching him rather than him owning it. I bet Norv Turner wasn't the all-knowing offensive play caller when he first started.
Patience is difficult for this fan base. First the 20 something years of pure mediocrity will always be a cloud over this team until they become successful. The fact the off season is so dang long, and when your team is destined for no play-offs as the season moves on, that makes the time to take the field next season even longer. So fans want results, and where a team will be in late December is a work in progress. And impatience grows. Becomes multiplied by many factors.
But fans expect it to be at its best from the first snap.
And in the big scheme of things, it might take Mac this entire season before he gets the pieces in place.
This team is playing a team sport. There are many moving pieces and it takes time to gel. We as fans of this team need to temper our expectations and allow this team to grow into their full fruit.