Remember one seconds on the clock before we would snap the ball

speedkilz88 · Oct 26, 2021

A vet qb uses this time identifying the defensive coverage.

TwoCentPlain · Oct 26, 2021

terra said:
Another JG brilliant idea.

I don’t know if it was a Romo preference or a Garrett preference. I wonder if Garrett has Danny Dimes doing the same thing now?

Flamma · Oct 26, 2021

MichiganCowboyFan said:
Pass, pass, pass, punt

go up 35-3 and find a way to lose against Aaron Rodgers's backup

ughhhhhhhh

Dallas was up 26-3.

calico · Oct 26, 2021

im sure the linemen love not having to hold their stance all that extra time over the game. less false start calls.

Hoofbite · Oct 26, 2021

I always hated it, and it wasn't just snapping late. The whole process was slow and ugly. You'd see Manning get to the line with 25 seconds and sometimes drain the clock with various audibles and hard counts. Other times, he snaps it with 20 seconds on the clock. Garrett's teams would hit the line with 8 seconds and have 1 chance to adjust anything before snapping at the last second.

It was a complete misunderstanding of what "clock control" actually means. Usually it means that if you do good things on offense, you control the clock. For Garrett, he thought if you controlled the clock you would inherently be doing good things on offense. That's why you'd see equal clock control at halftime and Dallas is still down 10-14 points. Second half becomes nothing but Romo bailing the team out.

MichiganCowboyFan · Oct 26, 2021

Flamma said:
Dallas was up 26-3.

either way, it was one of Lady JaGa's most famous signature losses. There were a few that season. Detroit same season also comes readily to mind.

keep in mind: The cowboys just needed to win 1 more game than they did to win the division and make the playoffs that year. And Aaron Rodgers wasn't playing.

terra · Oct 26, 2021

ninja said:
I don’t know if it was a Romo preference or a Garrett preference. I wonder if Garrett has Danny Dimes doing the same thing now?

Come on you really don't think this was JG? Being THAT predictable?

TwoCentPlain · Oct 26, 2021

terra said:
Come on you really don't think this was JG? Being THAT predictable?

Romo said they did it so the defense could not change. When the clock got close to zero the defense was locked in to their positions. Romo seemed to have been on board with this and bought into it even if it were Garrett’s idea.

Flamma · Oct 26, 2021

MichiganCowboyFan said:
either way, it was one of Lady JaGa's most famous signature losses. There were a few that season. Detroit same season also comes readily to mind.

keep in mind: The cowboys just needed to win 1 more game than they did to win the division and make the playoffs that year. And Aaron Rodgers wasn't playing.

There were a couple of bad losses to Detroit. I think that was the year the Cowboys were running out the clock and got called for holding on a run play. Detroit had no timeouts. They declined the penalty and instead of around 20 seconds left, they had almost a minute. Ended up winning.

A few years prior they had a 27-3 lead on Detroit in the 3rd and blew that one too. But that loss was on Romo.

MichiganCowboyFan · Oct 26, 2021

Flamma said:
There were a couple of bad losses to Detroit. I think that was the year the Cowboys were running out the clock and got called for holding on a run play. Detroit had no timeouts. They declined the penalty and instead of around 20 seconds left, they had almost a minute. Ended up winning.

A few years prior they had a 27-3 lead on Detroit in the 3rd and blew that one too. But that loss was on Romo.

I remember em both, especially the one in 2013. The holding penalty and Stafford sneaking it for the win. The historically awful defense playing historically awful coverage. Jeff Heath, Brandon Used Carr, Barry Church... ugh. Megatron going for like 340 yards or whatever it was.

JayFord · Oct 26, 2021

i didnt like it at all and couldnt stand it glad its not a thing with us

but the strategy behind it was to see the defense for what it truly was at 1 second you see the defense in its shell and know for sure what defense is being run because they cant audible anymore

Captain43Crash · Oct 26, 2021

glimmerman said:
Drove me nuts. Romo was really good at it. It let our O-Line know when to be set but also let the opposing defense know. But when playing with a lead it allowed us to chew up the clock.

It was stupid. I remember our O line jumping offsides numerous times because they were waiting soooo long for the snap. I also, remember Romo clapping his hands frantically for the snap to no avail. Delay of game!

It was also extremely annoying that for a long time Garrett would not let Romo go no huddle. Romo was extremely good at it but we very seldom used it. We always methodically snapped the ball with almost no time on the clock.

So glad the “ Garrett nightmare” is behind us!!

Aviano90 · Oct 26, 2021

What frustrated me was running the play clock down after a controversial call that went in our favor instead of rushing to the line trying to beat a challenge flag. We would make sure to give the opponent ample time to review the replay and decide whether or not to challenge.

Rack · Oct 26, 2021

Whirlwin said:
Personally It drove me crazy, I couldn’t understand why we would wait until the last second to snap the ball. , I Love that they’re snapping the ball the moment they’re ready. Why all this motion trying to confuse the difference in the past. I think it’s so much more efficient just going to line snapping the ball and get on with the play. You’re less apt to have a penalty. and the defense is less likely to be prepared . I think it’s made a great difference in our execution

I wanted them to snap it with 1 second vs the Panthers to milk the clock but they kept snapping it with ~10 seconds left.

Other than a situation like that, who gives a crap when they snap it? If the offense is effective, the offense is effective.

CWR · Oct 26, 2021

Whirlwin said:
Personally It drove me crazy, I couldn’t understand why we would wait until the last second to snap the ball. , I Love that they’re snapping the ball the moment they’re ready. Why all this motion trying to confuse the difference in the past. I think it’s so much more efficient just going to line snapping the ball and get on with the play. You’re less apt to have a penalty. and the defense is less likely to be prepared . I think it’s made a great difference in our execution

Not sure, but I think that was Romo figuring out the defense.

Whirlwin · Oct 27, 2021

Rack said:
I wanted them to snap it with 1 second vs the Panthers to milk the clock but they kept snapping it with ~10 seconds left.

Other than a situation like that, who gives a crap when they snap it? If the offense is effective, the offense is effective.

I understand totally. All I’m saying is it was nerve-racking lol

Ring6 · Oct 27, 2021

JayFord said:
i didnt like it at all and couldnt stand it glad its not a thing with us

but the strategy behind it was to see the defense for what it truly was at 1 second you see the defense in its shell and know for sure what defense is being run because they cant audible anymore

yep this was the real reason. to make the defense show its hand so theoretically offense would have advantage. didn't seem to work out well always.

dfense · Oct 27, 2021

It's called ball control.

Doomsday101 · Oct 27, 2021

Whirlwin said:
Personally It drove me crazy, I couldn’t understand why we would wait until the last second to snap the ball. , I Love that they’re snapping the ball the moment they’re ready. Why all this motion trying to confuse the difference in the past. I think it’s so much more efficient just going to line snapping the ball and get on with the play. You’re less apt to have a penalty. and the defense is less likely to be prepared . I think it’s made a great difference in our execution

Because there are times QB has to make adjustments or change plays because he sees what they are currently in will lead to a negative play.

BobbyFlame469 · Oct 27, 2021

beware_d-ware said:
It took Tony Romo a while to un-do JG's crap play designs.

I would be willing to do terrible things to see 2009-14 peak Romo operaring Kellen Moore's offense.

he would be aaron rodgers.

Not joking

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