Are there actions you think the team should take to be less predictable?

[BenTramer]

Blame Garrett, but he wasn't the play caller.

Garrett WAS just as predictable when he was OC.

 

[Hennessy_King]

Yes it's called self scouting. Know your own tendencies so you know what the defense might be thinking. This is elementary

 

[fansince68]

All teams self scout, some do a better job at it than others and it's also more important to some teams than others. We have often relied on simply manhandling, out executing or simply our guy beats their man strategy instead of creating mismatches and forcing defenses to make choices. Part of problem is personnel packages we use that tip defenses off. There are also many type formations and plays we rarely use like bunch or stacked sets, very little motion, rarely attack the middle of the field, our deep passes are always down the sidelines, we never run a deep post or corner or deep crosses.

Agreed. Our staff should study our team tendencies and simply mix it up and do something DIFFERENT yet creative. If you and I can predict the play call than it's a piece of cake for opposing defensive coordinators. Btw, I wonder if our defensive brain trust study the tendencies of our opponents?

 

[Jake]

What are the ways a team should go about being less predictable?

Hire a proven GM, let him hire a head coach, and relegate the Jones boys to the owner's box.

 

[rnr_honeybadger]

Step 1 Be less predictable
Step 2 punch Jason Garrett in the mouth
Step 3 repeat steps 1&2 as needed

 

[Bohuntr97]

Predictability at some level is a good thing, IF you use it to your advantage. D coordinators know the percentages of what play we are going to run given the field position, down, distance and formation. There are articles on the internet by journalists who calculate it. The key is to go against the grain when unexpected if you need a big play. We just seldom do it.

Who honestly saw a Nick Foles gadget touchdown on 4th and goal from the one in the SB? That was screaming for a run and the Pats sold out on it. Gutsy call.

 

[JustChip]

For starters hire a new head coach.

Or use an online randomizer.

 

[Idgit]

I don’t care about being predictable. We’ve been predictable on offense and good for a long time. We need to be better.

 

[buybuydandavis]

What are the ways a team should go about being less predictable? I know in some cases, you know what you're going to do, they know it, and you just want to outplay them. However, in other cases, it can help to keep them guessing. I know throughout the season a lot of people complained about our offense being to predictable. What could or should the team do about it?

"We do what we do." Which happens to be making life easy on our opponents by being predictable.

It's not rocket science. It's basic game theory. But the Red Genius just doesn't seem to get it.

You present multiple simultaneous threats in personnel, formation, and motion, and actually *use* all of those simultaneous threats with enough regularity so the defense has to defend all of them, because they can't tell which one you're going to do.

 

[buybuydandavis]

The problem is at the top of the coaching staff. Garrett is predictable in almost everything he does - and what goes on on the football field isn't any different.

Unpredictability is a part of basic game strategy that *should* start from the HC and apply to all phases of the game.

 

[Pantone282C]

it's much less about scheme as it is about when to call which plays you want and being able to do call multiple plays from the same few formations. We all look at the rams and say they do all these things, but really it's very simple. Get in 11 personnel and run 6 plays out of 1 formation all game long with a few variations on each.

You mean instead of the same play from 6 formations? Our predictability has been a curse.