All 3 Cowboys TEs have posted one of the 15 highest negatively graded run-block rates in the NFL

[cowboys5xsbs]

 

[Dorsett99Yards]

Our play caller needs to be put in the doghouse for that play. Pulling blockers on short yardage plays rarely works.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

I can't tell what Spann-Ford is doing on that play? He looks like he wham blocks Clowney off the snap, but then disengages and goes after someone on the ground?

 

[Cmac]

The TE room definitely needs upgrade.

 

[buddahjoe445]

To be fair, Bass screws up that play. Bass falling down ruined the play. Barry Sanders wouldn't have been able to escape that mess

 

[gimmesix]

To be fair, Bass screws up that play. Bass falling down ruined the play. Barry Sanders wouldn't have been able to escape that mess

Good point on Bass. Looks like he would have followed Spann-Ford and hit Clowney a second time as Spann-Ford peeled off for the interior defender. Might have opened that seam for Williams.

 

[plymkr]

lol, is anyone a “scheme fit” for Parker’s “scheme”?

 

[gtb1943]

here is another example where PFF screws the pooch on Spanford

 

[Hoofbite]

Our play caller needs to be put in the doghouse for that play. Pulling blockers on short yardage plays rarely works.

I will never understand why teams who struggle to run welcome the defense to stack the box like this.

Spread them out. Any team with 2 excellent jump ball WRs is doing the defense a favor by not putting them both out there to pull guys away from the box. Taking a guy out of the play by having him cover a potential pass is every bit as good as nullifying a guy in the box with a good block.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

I will never understand why teams who struggle to run welcome the defense to stack the box like this.

Spread them out. Any team with 2 excellent jump ball WRs is doing the defense a favor by not putting them both out there to pull guys away from the box. Taking a guy out of the play by having him cover a potential pass is every bit as good as nullifying a guy in the box with a good block.

It's just baffling. In the 90s we could move people off the ball...so there was nothing the defense could do. But today, we don't have the strength, so spread them out ....

I think it is an ego thing. A macho thing. Where one team does not want to ADMIT we are weaker than you. Like we need film that shows " we ain't no punks"...