News: BST: Cowboys Hire Coach for Broken Unit

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Jason Garrett decided to forego the most comfortable route, and hire Sanjay Lal to coach the club’s receivers.

He replaces Derek Dooley, who joined Missouri’s staff as it’s offensive coordinator after five seasons in Dallas.

Lal spent last season with Indianapolis working with T.Y. Hilton, who caught 57 passes for 109 yards, a 16.6 average, and four touchdowns.

He was with the Buffalo Bills in 2015-16 and with the New York Jets from 2012-2014 and with Oakland from 2009-11.

The Cowboys’ receivers didn’t come close to playing to their potential last season whether the blame is affixed to the scheme, the players or the coaching staff.

Den Bryant caught 69 passes for 838 yards and six touchdowns. He did not record a 100-yard game.

Cole Beasley caught 36 passes for 314 yards and four touchdowns, a year after leading the Cowboys with 75 catches for 833 yards. Terrance Williams averaged just 10.1 yards per catch, nearly three less yards per catch than he did in 2016.


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jobberone said:
Yes he needs this but mostly he needs to read Ds and throw the ball into tighter windows. He has to create more opportunities including deeper targets and hot reads.
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Romo had the luxury of "developmental QB". Parcells nurtured him and then anointed him "bus driver'. The luxury he didn't have early on, was the OL and RB that Dak is fortunate to have. We failed multiple times in the draft to provide Romo with a decent OL. By the time we had put it together, Romo had become Hudini reincarnate, while always being one hit away from season ending devastation.

Dak has everything he needs to succeed. He just needs more time to develop and mature.
 
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jobberone said:
I still put more on Dak but they're all culpable.
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this is true but thats exactly why Garrett needs to focus on the Daks strengths which is throwing the shortball. We saw what happens when he targeted Beasley his first season. If they are going to take Beasley away this is exactly why Zeke should be running passing routes in the short game.The offense is too predictable. Even if this team were to work on it deep ball passing game, they wouldnt be able to use it against these stout defenses that are in the playoffs. If you watch the Patriots all they do is throw the ball short to their RBs between the hash marks. Just a more effective way of having a running game when running out of the backfield isnt working. Eagles, Falcons, Saints, Vikings, Steelers, Jags , Patriots ALL OF THOSE TEAMS THROW A LOT TO THEIR RBS! This is exactly why Zeke shouldnt be running the ball 25 times between the tackles and we need to run some two back sets. Zeke would be even faster and more effective if he had 15 carries and caught 10 passes. As long as those passes arent all caught in the backfield and he is out in the short passing tree.
 
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Romo had the luxury of "developmental QB". Parcells nurtured him and then anointed him "bus driver'. The luxury he didn't have early on, was the OL and RB that Dak is fortunate to have. We failed multiple times in the draft to provide Romo with a decent OL. By the time we had put it together, Romo had become Hudini reincarnate, while always being one hit away from season ending devastation.

Dak has everything he needs to succeed. He just needs more time to develop and mature.
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He better start producing next year or Dallas better start looking for a guy that can produce without needing a #1 pick at every position. Romo had a decent Oline and he still couldnt get it done and looking back I used to blame him but now I think Garrett ruined him.
But when you look around the league! all the playoff teams except for Eagles dont have the best oline in football. I never even heard of the Vikings oline and they are getting it done with a back up QB and RB while their top draft picks are producing on Dline and LB. When is the last time a team won a SB and all we heard about was their oline. The Jaguars have Jeremy Parnell one of our 3rd string back up Oline guys we let get go and he is a solid RT starter on their team. How could that be?
 
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Not a whole lot of success with former teams, granted, no great offenses. Unfortunately for him, he's not coming into a great situation here either.
 
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The Cowboys’ receivers didn’t come close to playing to their potential last season whether the blame is affixed to the scheme, the players or the coaching staff.
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Jumbo075 said:
Dak ranked 4th in the NFL in deep ball accuracy. Kind of upsets the argument that he's a dink and dunk QB.
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No it does not. He was ranked like 21st in deep ball yards. He was accurate on the few he threw but he did not throw many. That does not remove your status as dink and dunk!!!
 
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aikemirv said:
No it does not. He was ranked like 21st in deep ball yards. He was accurate on the few he threw but he did not throw many. That does not remove your status as dink and dunk!!!
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Maybe Dak didn’t throw many deep balls because Linehan didn’t call many?
 
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jobberone said:
Yes he needs this but mostly he needs to read Ds and throw the ball into tighter windows. He has to create more opportunities including deeper targets and hot reads.
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Dak has his issues to work on as does dez. For Dak I think the real key is continuing to learn to read defenses
To me the key for a QB is know defenses well enough to know who will be open before they get open because in the nfl they don’t usually stay open long
 

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I have no data to support this. It is just what I noticed watching the games. Dak checked down far too often and completed short passes which failed to produce a needed first down. They resulted in a positive stat but in reality were often as useless as an incompletion. It looked like he lost his confidence in throwing medium to deep routes to guys who were not wide open.
 
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Jumbo075 said:
Dak ranked 4th in the NFL in deep ball accuracy. Kind of upsets the argument that he's a dink and dunk QB.
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Yes but Cowboys were last in the NFL attempting only 8% of their passes 20 yards beyond the LOS with only 2 attempts all year to Dez beyond 20 yards.
 
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jobberone said:
I still put more on Dak but they're all culpable.
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I can see blaming Dak for not pushing it downfield more as he protects the ball and checks down, but you can’t blame Dak for Beasley’s pathetic season. They obviously had chemistry a year ago, and Beas was his go to guy. The QB didn’t suddenly just ignore the little guy unless coaches were pushing the ball to Dez.
 
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