After reviewing film, Romo was terrible and cost us the game

[RonSpringsdaman20]

wait...whut?
DFWJC, you're a slick one!

 

[JakeCamp12]

It was a team effort in the loss. 2 fumbles, bad coverage on a punt (Spillman stinks), too many missed tackles on defense. But like I said, the O-Line wasn't the problem against the blitz. When 5 or 6 is protecting against 7 or 8 pass rushers, some of those pass rushers will get free and the QB has to make the right reads and get the ball out quickly enough or you're going to have a bad day. Still, I think we were better off adding extra blockers which is what we did when Weeden was in the game.

Romo looked skiddish from the onset. A few of his initial throws didn't have a lot of zip on them when they could have used some zip. Then he threw some too hard for the pass play in question or just badly missed their mark. To me, that's when the Garrett/Linehan/Romo should be thinking about adding extra blockers because that is when Romo doesn't have the game to beat the blitz using more receivers.

YR

It appears the back injuries have taken some of the zip off of his passes. The last set of downs in overtime it appeared he had nothing left in his arm. I agree that his has looked skiddish, and he is looking to protect himself now when the pocket gets tight.

 

[DFWJC]

wait...whut?
DFWJC, you're a slick one!

almost busted

 

[DFWJC]

Haslett gambled that Romo would not throw the ball into a tight window and the rush would get there before he could go elsewhere, the cat is out of the bag....prepare to see more of the same from every team. The only thing I'm surprised about is it took people so long, he has been afraid to throw into tight coverage for the past 2 years.

Washington has been playing us like this since 2012. Haslett is better at this that almost everyone else.
So if the cat was out of the bag for two years now, why isn't every one else doing it?
It's not so simple.

 

[DFWJC]

It appears the back injuries have taken some of the zip off of his passes. The last set of downs in overtime it appeared he had nothing left in his arm. I agree that his has looked skiddish, and he is looking to protect himself now when the pocket gets tight.

He had no business being in there.

 

[Hoov]

OC got his hat handed to him

i dont think so. Looking at the original post there were often guys open and Romo held the ball because he wanted to go to a different option or missed a guy because he took eyes off field to spin or dance around rather than just step and throw to the first read.

Also, Murray made 2 mistakes on blitz pick up while he is normally very reliable and Martin goofed once. Also tony moved witten off merriweather on the first sack and brought him to the other side of the line - so how did he not know merriweather would be on him - or maybe he did and planned all along to bait him into his spin move but merriweather didnt fall for it. So 4 of the 5 sacks cannot be blamed on OC. Also the 2 missed passes to witten who was open cannot be blamed on the OC.

And on the last series before OT Beaslely is open quick but Romo is waiting for witten and is again waiting too long for a play to develop.

And on the final play in OT 2 guys are depper then the deepest Commander in the middle of the filed (talk about blown coverage) - take your pick and throw it up to either one and you win the game. That is what will stop the other team from blitzing. Make a throw under pressure.

 

[Hoov]

Washington has been playing us like this since 2012. Haslett is better at this that almost everyone else.
So if the cat was out of the bag for two years now, why isn't every one else doing it?
It's not so simple.

I do agree with this

 

[Hoov]

I don't really believe that Washington had us fooled. They didn't show us anything that we have not seen before. In fact, they pretty much stuck to the script and did what they know has worked in the past.

If we were fooled, it was not Washington who fooled us IMO. It was we who fooled ourselves. JMO

Someone else posted that this might be the case due to having great confidence in the O line and Murray ability to handle blitzes. After all, they have been succesful so far this year so perhaps everyone was feeling this years O line would be the difference instead of gameplanning 3 step drops and quick hits/screen passes they may have decided to just let Romo change up protection packages at the LOS. It has worked earlier this year.

Going forward I am sure they will talk about this.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

It appears the back injuries have taken some of the zip off of his passes. The last set of downs in overtime it appeared he had nothing left in his arm. I agree that his has looked skiddish, and he is looking to protect himself now when the pocket gets tight.

Watch the first quarter or so, before he got injured. He wasn't really on his game before the injury. The throws were not very crisp and it seemed like the speed of the game was moving a touch too fast for him.




YR

 

[noshame]

did you notice that often times the routs you are talking of were routs that no one was running?

Yeah, but I guess the question is why

 

[tecolote]

But Geno Smith, Bortles and Matty Ice aren't Cowboys quarterbacks. Romo is.
This is a Cowboys forum.
Some fans are TOOOOO sensitive when it comes to analyzing this team and its players, particularly Romo.
No one is saying Romo shouldn't be our quarterback. But he's not above criticism. Sheesh!

All I said is he wasn't terrible, sometimes when you live in a cowboy cocoon you lose sight of what terrible is. I said he had some valid points but to call his performance terrible is overstating it a tad. Sheeesh!!

 

[Doomsday101]

Yeah, but I guess the question is why

Evidently they felt they would be able to hit bigger plays down field, only have to beat it once to hit big. Not that I agree with it, given the shots Romo was taking I would think you would try to run plays to get the ball out quicker.

 

[Stinger_Splash]

Weeden was ten times better in that game than the pre hit Romo, let alone the injured Romo in that game.

 

[Hook'em#11]

Haha. Somebody is still stuck in 2010 and fails to realize that the NFL now makes the same film the coaches use available to us mere mortals. Why don't you dust off the old DVR and see if you can find the same shots that I posted on your recorded game.

https://gamerewind.nfl.com/nflgr/secure/packages?ttv=1&icampaign=Prod_GR_Nav

Some people are so content in their ignorance. If only you know how much of a fail this post was.

The "fail" is you actually thinking you can decipher anything by looking at "film".. Armchair Coach at it's finest.. LOL

And, people give Jerry Jones a hard time about being a football coach. Gimme a break.

 

[benson]

Haslett just outcoached us.

I hope the Cowboys adjust. That's something i'm always worried about with a Jason Garrett coached football team.

Haslett didn't outcoach anyone, besides maybe Romo. And when all you do is blitz and it works, all you're doing is showing that their is something mentally wrong with the QB.

 

[CowboyGil]

And yet they gave up only 17 points in regulation and gave the offense a chance to score for the win in both the 4Q and OT.

Really don't understand how anyone could blame the defense for this one.

Marinelli was screaming the whole game. And every 3rd and short, the Cowboys knew the Skins were going to #84 and couldn't stop it. McCoy should've been the one who was uncomfortable and he really wasn't. Both units were off Monday night. I think the offense moreso. Good teams don't blame one unit or the other. And guys on both sides of the ball accepted blame as it should be. Church said he had his worst game ever.

 

[Doomsday101]

Marinelli was screaming the whole game. And every 3rd and short, the Cowboys knew the Skins were going to #84 and couldn't stop it. McCoy should've been the one who was uncomfortable and he really wasn't. Both units were off Monday night. I think the offense moreso. Good teams don't blame one unit or the other. And guys on both sides of the ball accepted blame as it should be. Church said he had his worst game ever.

For the most part Colt was kept in the comfort of 2nd and short and 3rd and short. As long as Washington could keep him in those situation Colt was going to have success.

 

[gimmesix]

I differ a bit in my analysis of the 2nd sack because I feel even if the pass was incomplete, with a free rusher he shouldn't have taken the sack on that play. He either has to fire to the back shoulder of Dez or throw it out of bounds. Dave Halprin says in his post that a couple of quick slants should have beaten that blitz. Well Dez was running a quick slant that the CB was going to jump so Romo has just the back shoulder throw to make as he can't get his face across to find open Beasley who was also running the equivalent of a quick slant as he was open.

On the 1st sack, Halprin is right that Romo called the wrong protection. But even with that, he could have hit Beasley on the sideline or hit Witten coming out of the backfield if he was willing to take the hit as he was throwing.

My post focuses on more than the sacks. Especially, my post focuses on the 3 plays that occurred in OT. He was miserable in OT.

I just think your analysis doesn't cover everything that goes into those plays, which leads you to blame Romo more than is necessarily his fault. When a QB is facing a blitz, there are several things that have to go right: You've got to read it right from a protection standpoint, which we failed to do several times (which can be put on Romo); the receivers have to read it right to adjust routes, open up the hot read, which on several of the illustrated plays doesn't look like it happened; the initial read on the play has to be the right one because there isn't time to scan the field, and that looks like it didn't happen quite often, which might have been the result of the design of the play vs. the defensive call; you've got to protect that ball, which means not getting it out quickly if you think it will lead to a turnover; you've got to call blitz-busting plays that take advantage of the aggressiveness, such as screens, quick draws, slants; you've got to use short sets, rollouts, dumpoffs to compensate for the aggressiveness.

It seemed like we were just content to run our scheme, thinking our big bad offensive line and back/tight end blitz protection would simply be enough. We put ourselves in a bad position to try to have success against the blitz and saw the result of it.

 

[TheCount]

The 4th down play was ridiculous, even watching it in real time and not knowing who was open - it was clear Romo was just looking to protect his back, he freaks out at the idea of pressure even before it materializes.

That was the one that had me worried, because it's something he was doing like year - just taking a dive as soon as he saw a defender. If we get that Romo going forward, it'd be better to play Weedon.

 

[DFWJC]

I'm sure many of you noticed that they really only blitzed when Murray was not lined up behind Romo.

Take away the run or play-action option and Haslett will consider dialing it up often.