This is how you write a sports article....Excellent piece from Tom Ryle.
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It was exactly what Cowboys fans hoped for. After an offseason and camp that seemed full of promise for a much more potent and consistent offense, the
Dallas Cowboys delivered in spades against the
New York Giants. Records were set. The young offensive coordinator looked like he had been toying with defenses for years. The quarterback’s performance was one of his very best in a young career. All the wide receivers balled out. There were no sacks. And even the grizzled old veteran showed there was still some fire in the furnace, even if all the snow has melted off the roof.
Call it an embarrassment of riches. It gave us plenty of fodder to digest. And it raises some questions, in a totally good way: Was this because
Kellen Moore was so brilliant in planning and calling the game? Or was it the full house of talent finally showing through?
Chicken? Or the egg?
If you haven’t read my hand yet, let me tell you that I think it is clearly a case where both are equally important in what we saw.
Moore was creative, unpredictable, aggressive, and
demonstrated how motion, personnel packages, and alignments can be used to force the defense to show its hand, and then exploit the weak point. He opened the game with a pass out of 12 personnel. The frenetic motion on some plays thoroughly confused the Giants’ secondary. And there was a beautiful example of how Moore is willing to break trends.
Bob Sturm of The Athletic had such a great description of the first and ten play from the third quarter that I will quote him rather than try to do it myself.
https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/201...rom-a-stacked-deckdak-prescott-michael-gallup
