10 Revealing Stat Tendencies of Cowboys Offense

[northerncowboynation]

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

News flash. Linnehan is the offensive coordinator now. It made total sense to say the Garrett wasn't a great OC. Totally mismanaged the clock late in games, made poor decisions. Now he's the HC and we let our OC off the hook??? What is that?

 

[northerncowboynation]

Interesting, werry interesting. Thanks Artie

 

[Doomsday]

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.

The red zone is not the same as the 1 or 2 yard line with the season on the line and Zeke Elliott in the back field.

 

[MileyDancer]

News flash. Linnehan is the offensive coordinator now. It made total sense to say the Garrett wasn't a great OC. Totally mismanaged the clock late in games, made poor decisions. Now he's the HC and we let our OC off the hook??? What is that?

All I said is this offense has been predictable going back to day 1 of Garrett being offensive coordinator. Relax. I know Linehan is the OC now, and no, I don't give him a break, just like I've never given the VASTLY OVERRATED Marinelli a break.

 

[VABoyz]

But opponents have been saying this for years..i remember ray lewis talking bout it before and someone from giants..they were like they knew the plays and that dallas wouldnt even try to switch it up in the second halves sometimes...i dont feel that we have to do trick plays but at least keep teams off balance BUT BUT BUT that would take a coach with a great rhythm and offensive creativity..smh oh well ,we can wish. lol

 

[Corso]

But opponents have been saying this for years..i remember ray lewis talking bout it before and someone from giants..they were like they knew the plays and that dallas wouldnt even try to switch it up in the second halves sometimes...i dont feel that we have to do trick plays but at least keep teams off balance BUT BUT BUT that would take a coach with a great rhythm and offensive creativity..smh oh well ,we can wish. lol

At least have more than a few route concepts for an entire season for your wideouts...
That would be kind of cool.

 

[Aviano90]

Cowboys playbook

 

[visionary]

But opponents have been saying this for years..i remember ray lewis talking bout it before and someone from giants..they were like they knew the plays and that dallas wouldnt even try to switch it up in the second halves sometimes...i dont feel that we have to do trick plays but at least keep teams off balance BUT BUT BUT that would take a coach with a great rhythm and offensive creativity..smh oh well ,we can wish. lol

But but but that just wasn't true

 

[birdwells1]

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.

Most teams self scout, to make sure no tendencies are created.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

https://www.___GET_REAL_URL___/cowb...aling-stat-tendencies-of-cowboys-offense/amp/

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...

well, that's play calling and not necessarily play design (which needs improvement anyway).

my question is how successful were the plays, specially those 80% and above as tendency? is it the mentality of the 90s team, that you know its coming but you can't stop it....did we succeed or was it utter failure most of the time.

 

[Corso]

well, that's play calling and not necessarily play design (which needs improvement anyway).

my question is how successful were the plays, specially those 80% and above as tendency? is it the mentality of the 90s team, that you know its coming but you can't stop it....did we succeed or was it utter failure most of the time.

9-7 season and no playoffs. And that's with the suspensions and injuries to key players.
But what does it mean???

 

[Hawkeye0202]

IMO this on Garrett.......period. As head coach, there's no excuse, even if he has to hire quality control coach. Said before and stand by it, this is a lazy coaching staff. Hopefully, with a bunch of new assistances, that may change........

 

[viman96]

IMO it would have been interesting if they charted and provided stats for the last 4 years

 

[xwalker]

https://www.___GET_REAL_URL___/cowb...aling-stat-tendencies-of-cowboys-offense/amp/

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...

I didn't even see Shotgun/under-center mentioned which is one of the easiest give-aways on run pass. In some years they were about 80% pass from shotgun and 80% run from under-center. I have not seen that stat for 2017 but I thinks it's probably similar.

 

[Verdict]

I still don't understand why we don't throw the halfback pass when defenses sell totally out yo stop the run. It will get you a cheap TD here and there and make defenses play you more honest.

 

[Verdict]

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

Dez and Witten really limit options.

 

[beware_d-ware]

That's a little depressing to see. Every time there's a fullback or 2 TEs, it's going to be a run.

I'd like to see a percentage of how many plays we called that were out of the I form or 2 TE sets.

 

[xwalker]

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.

I think they often force Dak to throw to the primary receiver in the play-call. If you watch hours of game footage of the offense, just going through offensive play after offensive play, you start to get a feel for some things. One of the most obvious to me is that Dak often throws to a receiver due to the play call but not because that's really where he wanted to throw it.

Part of that may be that they coached him to get rid of the ball and not keep holding it looking for other WRs.

Nevertheless, it definitely appears to be an issue. It wasn't just to Dez but it was most noticeable when Dez was the primary.

Many, many times Dak would look for Dez and when he was not open or didn't react in a way to give a completion a chance, then Dak would just throw the ball away. He didn't throw the ball away nearly as often when targeting other WRs.

I think it was similar to when on some plays they started forcing Romo to NOT change run plays to pass plays.

The coaches or Jerry probably believed the concept that they have to get the ball to Dez even if he appears covered. The primary way for the coaches to do that would be to coach Dak that on specific plays calls to just wait on Dez to come open and to not look for another receiver. Once Dak has waited and Dez was not open, then he would just throw it away.

 

[CowboyRoy]

https://www.___GET_REAL_URL___/cowb...aling-stat-tendencies-of-cowboys-offense/amp/

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...

I hate hate Jason Garrett. Someone please get this loser out of here!!!!

What this also tells me is that they basically didnt give Dak the option to audible hardly at all. Just goes to show how far he has to go in his development as a QB. Much room to grow. Another quality football player that is going to have his career ruined in Dallas.

 

[Aven8]

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