All 22 Review: Offense

[NeonDeion21]

Overall, I thought Romo really only had one bad pass the entire game and it came on the interception. Romo missed a wide open Beasley in the middle of the field and decided to throw to all the way across the field at a cornerback who loves to gamble. Even worse, Romo throws this pass with all arm. His feet are planted and his hips were open. Just a bad decision by Romo.



I wasn’t as impressed by the running game after I re-watched the film. If you take away DeMarco Murray’s 44 yard run, Murray ran for 56 yards on his other 23 carries (2.43 YPC). And I thought when I went back and watched the game I would see a ton of stacked boxes and there wasn’t as many as I suspected. In the two runs below, Dallas had one or two tight ends on the field and St. Louis left only seven men in the box. Dallas gained a combined one yard on these two runs:



Of Murray’s 24 carries, 14 went for two or less yards and eight of those carries lost yardage or gained zero yards. There’s still a lot of work to be done in the Dallas Cowboys’ run game.

Read the rest at: http://cover32.com/cowboys/2014/09/24/film-room-notes-on-the-dallas-cowboys-week-3-offense/

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

regarding the running game. I am glad we didn't abandon it. as you said, the threat of a running game, forced the rams to put more in the box, which allowed the passing game to be effective and its up to romo to get the ball to the open player and not just force it to his favorites. sometimes the threat of running will force a defenses hands. in the past we faked running the ball or went full out passing, which made it easier to defend.

so I don't expect the run game to continuously produce like the fist two games. because defenses will account for it and will try to stop it, which will reduce YPC, but will help over all offense.