10 Revealing Stat Tendencies of Cowboys Offense

[robjay04]

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With the pending combine, free agency and draft dominating the headlines, let’s change gears and take another look at 2017.

During the regular season, advanced scouting departments study opponents’ film weeks ahead of time. As soon as a game ends, these scouts scour film of next week’s opponent, finalize their notes, and give their reports to the coaching staff by Monday evening so they can prepare their game plan for installation on Wednesday. They spend countless hours attempting to glean any detail to better understand and predict how adversaries will play.

How predictable was the Cowboys’ offense in 2017?

All of the team’s plays were charted, thus revealing a number of intriguing trends and statistics. The Cowboys were pretty predictable in 2017.


With so much talent and a young QB, this is downright pathetic...

 

[cowboy_ron]

Offenses with 4 plays in the playbook tend to be predictable.....it's also helpfull when you run the clock down to the last second on every play.

 

[Corso]

Oh my goodness. That was... that was just depressing.

 

[Tangle_Foot]

I've always thought that we should scout our tendencies to avoid becoming so predictable. It's a shame when someone knows you better than yourself.

 

[Sydla]

Holy hell.

You just have to laugh.

 

[Chuck 54]

I didn't make it to the end, but did this ever compare to the rest of the league so that it actually means something?

So, we ran too much in the red zone, yet fans cried every time a pass was called down there and thought we should be running every down.
We flexed the TE out on one side to occupied the CB and then mostly threw to the wideouts on the other side ....isn't that what you're supposed to do?

We ran all the time from the I formation....1) how often was the full back in the game? 2) when he was, didn't we want to run due to goal line or short yardage?

Stats don't mean a thing when you're successful, and they can mean anything when you aren't successful.

These stats mean something to those of us who are arm chair QBs who want to trick the defense, but without knowing the stats for the same categories for 2016 when we went 13-3 and how those stats compare to other teams built similarly to us (not GB), it's hard to really know what any of that proves.

 

[DeaconMoss]

Wow. Thats JV level tendencies

 

[Sydla]

I do have a question. How much of this can be attributed to Prescott? The formation stuff and running same plays is a coaching thing but, for example, they talked about the 3x2 formation and passing out of it and said we only "targeted" the middle WRs 18% of the time.

Well how much of that is Prescott missing or simply ignoring the middle of the field?

I only ask because I this shouldn't turn into a complete Garrett and Linehan bash fest. LOL.

 

[Prime21]

Kinda meaningless without comparing to the rest of the NFL. Interesting nonetheless.

 

[Sydla]

Another interesting comment in there.

That when in FG range, we tend to run the ball more......... basically, they got scared to give up points so they went safe.

 

[Sydla]

Kinda meaningless without comparing to the rest of the NFL. Interesting nonetheless.

Just a guess, but if you look at some of the better offensive teams, they won't have nearly these tendencies. Look at the two SB teams and I would wager for more innovation and lack of tipping plays based on formation, spot on the field, etc. than here in Dallas.

 

[Corso]

Just a guess, but if you look at some of the better offensive teams, they won't have nearly these tendencies. Look at the two SB teams and I would wager for more innovation and lack of tipping plays based on formation, spot on the field, etc. than here in Dallas.

When there's a commonly used formation and you run 100% of the time from it... I don't know how many teams do that.

 

[the_h0wey]

Offenses with 4 plays in the playbook tend to be predictable.....it's also helpfull when you run the clock down to the last second on every play.

I had hoped with Tony retiring this would end. It gives me anxiety every single play.

 

[erod]

With this QB, what exactly do you call? You can't roll out every play, as we've seen defenses wise up to that. You can't run the option. You can't throw to Beasley and Witten every play without defenses pressing up and taking that away. And you can't force it downfield if you can't put the ball in tight windows.

So?

You run it on virtually every down?

 

[Sydla]

With this QB, what exactly do you call? You can't roll out every play, as we've seen defenses wise up to that. You can't run the option. You can't throw to Beasley and Witten every play without defenses pressing up and taking that away. And you can't force it downfield if you can't put the ball in tight windows.

So?

You run it on virtually every down?

The first excuse for the coaching staff. Well done.

 

[MileyDancer]

The offense has been predictable since Garrett's 1st year as OC. Why is this news to some people?

 

[phildadon86]

With this QB, what exactly do you call? You can't roll out every play, as we've seen defenses wise up to that. You can't run the option. You can't throw to Beasley and Witten every play without defenses pressing up and taking that away. And you can't force it downfield if you can't put the ball in tight windows.

So?

You run it on virtually every down?

So, the formations called are Dak's fault? And here I thought the OC calls plays and the QB executes them. Who knew....

 

[northerncowboynation]

Interesting. Werry interesting. Yes, our scheme is predictable and our receivers including the TE's are limited in what they do well. There aren't many CB's in the NFL who can't handle Dez one on one now. Witt is incredibly predictable. Those are the two stud weapons. We waited all year to see Switzer and Beasely out there together. The excuse why it didn't happen? Witt would have to come off the field. Geez, is that such a bad thing, that our 37 year old TE isn't on the field for 97% of the offensive plays. Don't tell me that Witt is still a great blocker. He isn't, he's an acceptable blocker.

Throw a TE out there who can get down field more than 8 yards, a WR who can run every route in every part of the field and I'm thinking it opens up options for an OC who knows how to use their WR's and TE's effectively. Linnehan did that in Detroit with Megatron. Maybe I'm wrong on this but doesn't talent open up the play book.

There is one of two ways to find out which came first, the chicken or the egg: 1) dump Linnehan and bring in a new OC or 2) retool the skill positions at WR and TE. Oh, and a third, do both

 

[Corso]

Interesting. Werry interesting. Yes, our scheme is predictable and our receivers including the TE's are limited in what they do well. There aren't many CB's in the NFL who can't handle Dez one on one now. Witt is incredibly predictable. Those are the two stud weapons. We waited all year to see Switzer and Beasely out there together. The excuse why it didn't happen? Witt would have to come off the field. Geez, is that such a bad thing, that our 37 year old TE isn't on the field for 97% of the offensive plays.

Throw a TE out there who can get down field more than 8 yards, a WR who can run every route in every part of the field and I'm thinking it opens up options for an OC who knows how to use their WR's and TE's effectively. Linnehan did that in Detroit with Megatron. Maybe I'm wrong on this but doesn't talent open up the play book.

There is one of two ways to find out which came first, the chicken or the egg: 1) dump Linnehan and bring in a new OC or 2) retool the skill positions at WR and TE. Oh, and a third, do both

 

[ShiningStar]

Once again, everyone ignores the problems.


Number 3 problem with Garrett

If its working, we ll get away from it. Everytime something is going right for this team, who has the hot hand, who the defense cant stop while we on offense, easy match ups, for whatever reason Garrett wont stick with it.