Are receivers getting open?

[zack]

Very rarely in the NFL are you wide open.

Not true at all. San Diego had guys wide open all day.

 

[zack]

The biggest problem I see with these routes is that none of them are complimentary routes.

Another words, there isn't a 14 yard curl and a 5 yard out being run on the same side of the field. We are putting any stress on the defender to make a choice. I really can't believe my eyes when I saw this. I said the same thing after the KC game. It didn't look like guys were getting open at all.

Hopefully people will see it's not Romo already. Half the time he doesn't have time to throw it deep. But the same culprits still wanna talk after seeing it with their own eyes. The eye is the sky don't lie!

 

[ftghb]

Many of you have already pointed out what I wanted to say. I'll add that if you spend time watching those truly unstoppable offenses that can push the ball down the field at will (Atl, NO, Den, last couple yr's NE offenses), they utilize a lot of stacked, staggered formations with their receivers that

a) discourage cornerbacks from playing press man and throwing off the timing of the routes

b) can use a receiver to essentially "rub" coverage off for another guy in order to get designated playmaker option open (look at all the bubble scrn touchdowns demaryius thomas gets in denver, they all come out of bunch packages that are specifically designed to get a receiver open)

Whereas here with the cowboys, i rarely see route combos working in sync with each other. I don't how much of that due to lack of experience in the receiving core, a rookie in terrance williams being the #3 guy now and iirc, they essentially scrapped out a ton of option route concepts because dez couldn't read the defenses correctly. At the end of the year, dallas may have one of the top ranked passing offenses, but very seldom do I see them dictating what the defense does. It's always "take what the defense gives you".....which is why we typically fall behind after generating an early lead (when they make adjustments to take away Dez) (vs NO last year, @ KC, @SD) and typically gain "garbage" yards when the opposing defenses are just playing a basic cover 2 shell on us. (like that 83 yd performace by terrance williams last week was ALL in garbage time)

 

[Pessimist_cowboy]

No they weren't open . Not even dez at the game Dez still takes plays off and slows down significantly in the 2nd half .

 

[mmohican29]

I don't see any crossing routes. Everything is straight forward or an out. No wonder people can't get open.

Zero crossing routes. It's curls, comebacks, TE seams, a few slants and a few out patterns. This is an abortion of an offense.

 

[Picksix]

One thing is for sure - Sparano's offense was much more efficient and predictable then Garretts. He had a feel to what was called, despite being simple. You also have to look back and see that he used Witten wisely back then. Mostly all of his pass plays was play action, which froze the linebackers, then a quick throw to Witten. In our case, with Garrett, there is no motion and no play action to freeze up the linebackers. Thus its so much easier to defend Witten.

Sparano was also great for creating mismatches and took advantage of them. He will throw the ball deep a few times to Owens to soften the defense up. Then would work the middle with Witten with a play action. We have none of that with Garrett at all.

I wasn't necessarily giving Garrett an endorsement of his offense, and things were better in 2007 when he was here. He just wasn't able to repeat that anywhere else. Of course, having some more talent would have helped. And I agree that Garrett's offense doesn't utilize things like play action that much.