I guess this all flies over your head.
My point has been that audibling 17 times in the last 2 seconds of the playclock is a problem for the team. We just don't move the ball as well. Last year we started to speed things up on offense and it worked. So when Romo audibled less in last night's game...the team scored 21 points in those drives. When he audibled like crazy, the team score 6 points.
I don't want 13+ play drives (or 17 play drives) because there are too many things that can go wrong in the middle of the drive to derail it....like it did for Dallas. You don't have to stop running the ball to have less plays in a drive (as witness by last night as we had a 17 play drive that only had 6 runs). The run helps keep the defense honest and helps set up the big pass play along with runs the play clock down more to help keep the defense fresh.
We are not a good dink-n-dunk team as witnessed last night. Allowing Romo to 'do whatever he wants' is not the answer. And I don't think it's the answer for any QB in this league.
We need to make some bigger plays in the passing game otherwise it's going to be a long year because we are not good when Romo throws the ball more than 36+ times a game. And we started making bigger plays in the passing game when we sped up the timing of the snaps. Whether it's Romo's fault or not is not the point...it's about scoring points and the offense scored far more points when we weren't taking forever to snap the ball.
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Surely you realize what Romo is doing when he audibles (or not). He is reading the defense, looking for free blitzers and adjusting the blocking schemes accordingly. Collinsworth even mentioned that Romo seemed to know what the Giants were up to as if he was in their huddle. Surely, if Romo knows what the Giants are doing and realizes the initial play call won't work, he should audible? No? I guess Romo should just run the play even when he knows it won't work. Yep, that makes sense.
Romo threw the ball almost exclusively in the 4th quarter because that's what the score dictated they had to do. They were actually pretty balanced in the first 3 quarters. Check it out if you don't believe me.
Nobody wants big plays more than I do. Everybody loves 60 yard bombs and 50 yards runs. But you can't rely on plays like that because they are rare, low percentage plays. Most of the time, you have to grind it out, be it running the ball or a short passing game, or both.
Last night, the problem was not the run/pass ratio. It was the turnovers. If not for the turnovers, the Cowboys would have controlled the game and the run/pass ratio would have been much more 50/50. That's a best case scenario, but sometimes it doesn't work out and you have to rely on your QB to throw their way to a victory. And I for one am glad we had Romo throwing the ball last when we were behind by 10 points with 8 minutes left.
You are completely missing the fact that the 3 turnovers forced the unbalanced run/pass ratio. I'm pretty confident the game plan going in was to be close to 50/50. But the turnovers forced them to throw more at the end of the game. Or maybe you think that with 1:37 left and no timeouts, Romo should have run the ball?
