Are there actions you think the team should take to be less predictable?

cowboyec · Feb 6, 2019

don't know if this answers the question but I'd like to see us use 2xtra OTs in place of TEs in our double TE set...like seattle.

I'd like to see Cooper moved around...not just always outside.

and Id like to see more no huddle/hurry-up...going back to '16 Dak really seems more comfortable and confident when we go hurry-up.
open the game with it...or stay with it for the entire 2nd half.

Tangle_Foot · Feb 6, 2019

I'm a big fan of self scouting tendencies and tells, you don't want to give the opposition and inside track by running the same plays in the same scenario from the same formation time and time again.
Opponents just don't rely on tells at the poker table. Jerry Rice is in the books as the NFL's best wide receiver despite not having the best physical attributes. What he did do was make every single route he ran look the same coming off the line, never tipping his hand.

OmerV · Feb 6, 2019

They could conceal the location of each home game until 3 hours before game time.

AmishCowboy · Feb 6, 2019

More Play Action passes!

Number1 · Feb 6, 2019

"Are there actions you think the team should take to be less predictable?"

Yes, as a matter of fact I can think of a few things.

- execute, as much as anything that takes depth

- intensity at all times

- get your QB on the move - clean pockets are rare in the NFL playoffs
more play action, more r/p options,

- spread the field and throw more often
in the 2nd half of 2018 Dak threw the ball about 35x a game, up from 30x ... 8-1

- get real DTs, limited ability equals predictability

- man up and blitz, run blitz inside, pass blitz off the edge

- return more kicks, fake more punts

ICP · Feb 6, 2019

Yeah, if you don't want to be so predictable hire some good coaches

Starforever · Feb 7, 2019

More first down runs.

CCBoy · Feb 7, 2019

Reverend Conehead said:
My concern is that the Rams were able to predict our offense and thus counter with the ideal defensive schemes to stop out offense. I wondered if the team should hire a specialist who studies the team to find tendencies and game plans based on them. Then the offense uses those very tendencies to be less predictable. For example, display a tendency that indicates a run and then do playaction. That's just one example.

What are the ways a team should go about being less predictable? I know in some cases, you know what you're going to do, they know it, and you just want to outplay them. However, in other cases, it can help to keep them guessing. I know throughout the season a lot of people complained about our offense being to predictable. What could or should the team do about it?

You know something, Jerry Jones noticed pretty much the same things...

DandyDon52 · Feb 7, 2019

Reverend Conehead said:
My concern is that the Rams were able to predict our offense and thus counter with the ideal defensive schemes to stop out offense. I wondered if the team should hire a specialist who studies the team to find tendencies and game plans based on them. Then the offense uses those very tendencies to be less predictable. For example, display a tendency that indicates a run and then do playaction. That's just one example.

What are the ways a team should go about being less predictable? I know in some cases, you know what you're going to do, they know it, and you just want to outplay them. However, in other cases, it can help to keep them guessing. I know throughout the season a lot of people complained about our offense being to predictable. What could or should the team do about it?

They made KM the OC, nuff said, no more predictability.
I am kidding but if KM has real control, which jerry says he does, we might get a new playbook, have to wait and see.

Quickdraw · Feb 7, 2019

CouchCoach said:
Ya know that title they used to have when all the others were taken? What they need is a Quality Control Coach. A coach doing what the other coaches are doing, looking for patterns and tendencies that can be exploited. There obviously are some patterns and tendencies displayed in the past which aided coaches in a predictive pattern. Whether that continues remains to be seen. Want to beat the enemy? Look at yourself the way the enemy does.

To add to this, this team needs coaches who can teach technique but not repetitive technique. For example, the Rams said our defense was predictable when they wanted to run a stunt because of how their hands were positioned, or how they lined up. To someone just watching the game, this is not noticeable. But coaches are getting smarter when looking at film and tendencies is what they're looking for.

Hadenough · Feb 7, 2019

Dallas need to get rid of the whole coaching staff. They must hire a head coach with a philosophy to scheme for opponents.

Daktozekecoop · Feb 7, 2019

At it's best football is a chess match. Trying to get the opponent to think you are going to do one thing, selling them on that so they commit. It is quite beautiful. New England did this relentlessly on both sides of the ball in the playoffs. The 80's 49er's did this elegantly. All great teams have. Even the seemingly simplistic, (part of their slight of hand beauty) 90's Cowboys. They had fewer plays than the 49er's by far, but they were unpredictable and masters of deception. Add this crucial element to these current Cowboys and they will win multiple super bowls. They have the talent, the best in the NFL imo, they just need the coaching. I hope dearly they do not waste this team. The team has such heart and individual talent, that I think they could eke out a deep playoff run, even a single super bowl victory, on their own, on sheer heart alone, without adequate coaching. But with brilliant coaching, all bets are off. They will soar. IMO

lukin2006 · Feb 7, 2019

I'd like to some more gadget plays, like the flea flicker. I'd like Zeke used as an outside receiver more often, QB sneaks on 4th and short, Throw on 1st down 40% of the time.

On D. Blitz more often.

lukin2006 · Feb 7, 2019

Hadenough said:
Dallas need to get rid of the whole coaching staff. They must hire a head coach with a philosophy to scheme for opponents.

Agreed. It would be nice to have a coach that recognizes Prescott's ability to run and design the offence more to those needs.

Future · Feb 7, 2019

It won't change under JG

But play-action and better use of pre-snap motion would go a long way.

JayFord · Feb 7, 2019

Actually attack the opponents weakness instead of “just out execute the other guys”

If we know the other team is weak up the middle....let Martin and Frederick clear out the middle

If the corner is flat footed then let amari run past him

If you know the other dline is small and lack strength attack them with power

And if the other team is starting a tackle with no experience put Lawrence on that side and show blitz on that side

ABQCOWBOY · Feb 7, 2019

To me, the problem is not predictability. To me, the problem is being able to adjust once the stuff hits the fan. That's what we are not very good at, IMO. We rarely get beaten in the first quarter.

morat1959 · Feb 7, 2019

Hire a new GM and HC!

Skillit · Feb 7, 2019

That’s just it, isn’t it?

If we are a power run team with a (used to be) dominant O line, then there really is no mystery. You have to line up and stop what’s coming. When you can’t, or overload to do it, then the creativity comes in.

You can be creative when you can run the ball. When you can’t, we’ll, let’s look at 80% of Tony Romos career and see how that turns out.

DuncanIso · Feb 8, 2019

Yes.

Stop using the shotgun/pistol on every play.

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