Are we running the same offense from 25 years ago?

[CheapietheCheapskate]

It seems like the plays, routes and philosophy are the same as the early 90s. That was great back then but this is 2017.

 

[TheHerd]

No. Fullback was a main ingredient in those days, running the lead draw. The linemen were maulers, so it was usually straight ahead. Teams were completely beaten up after a game against the Boys in those days. Unlike now where playing Dallas is the best therapy for injured players becoming healthy, it seemed like opposition players would milk injuries to miss out getting the snot kicked out of them.

Slants, skinny posts were the main pass patterns. Michael was a technician on route running. The passing offense was precision. Troy could put the ball anywhere, and don't give me his 61% or whatever completion percentage as evidence Dak is more accurate. And I love me some Dak. A huge number of Troy's incompletions were throw aways.

 

[Proximo]

LOL this place is just getting ridiculous.

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

LOL this place is just getting ridiculous.

Ridiculous but not that far off

 

[erod]

LOL, not at all.

How many empty-backfield spread plays do you have to see Dak in?

 

[Ring Leader]

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

It seems like the plays, routes and philosophy are the same as the early 90s. That was great back then but this is 2017.

Same philosophy for sure.

Let them see what’s coming. Be successful anyway.


Problem.... we don’t have that team.

 

[Ranching]

It seems like the plays, routes and philosophy are the same as the early 90s. That was great back then but this is 2017.

Is the football still made of Pigskin?

 

[jobberone]

A bit too much vertical and not enough horizontal nor getting the ball out quickly enough at times. Also, they need to allow Dak to roll out more although TBF they have that in the offense.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

It's like some people just started watching the game.

 

[TheCount]

Unlike now where playing Dallas is the best therapy for injured players becoming healthy, it seemed like opposition players would milk injuries to miss out getting the snot kicked out of them.

I doubt you'd have said this last season.

 

[DogFace]

I’d love to see a slant. Possibly even 2 in the same game. They’re still hard to stop. Dez is big. Do it please.

Please

 

[TheHerd]

I doubt you'd have said this last season.

You are 100% correct. They're not playing like they did last season. But this team was never the maulers those 90s teams were. Zone blocking, much more athletic linemen overall now. Freaky Larry Allen aside.

 

[DiResta]

Same philosophy for sure.

Let them see what’s coming. Be successful anyway.


Problem.... we don’t have that team.

true
but we did last year
our line has to play better or we sunk. its all on them because thats the team philosophy. great line is critical and we got slipping losing Free and the huge traffic jam at left guard
losing Lee killed our defense but i dont know what happened in Denver
that was crazy across the whole defense

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

true
but we did last year
our line has to play better or we sunk. its all on them because thats the team philosophy. great line is critical and we got slipping losing Free and the huge traffic jam at left guard
losing Lee killed our defense but i dont know what happened in Denver
that was crazy across the whole defense

If we did. We would be defending super bowl champs.

 

[soopastar4]

How about the horrible no back set in third and less than 5 where the threat of a draw play could at least make them think instead you go empty and open the rush gates with two new oline spots dumb.

 

[CheapietheCheapskate]

I get that the formation (spread) is different but it does seem like the same plays. And I agree we are WAY to vertical. Look at NE. They have been almost impossible to stop.

Vanilla is the word I would use and it's not like we have insane talent on offense to do that. Denver destroyed us.

 

[soopastar4]

My bad erod missed your post on that great minds think alike.

 

[soopastar4]

Almost everytime they run dez on the deep slant he makes the catch and they cant stop it. Garrett is to concerned with using the wideouts to get witten open in the middle but he takes to long.

 

[ajk23az]

I’d love to see a slant. Possibly even 2 in the same game. They’re still hard to stop. Dez is big. Do it please.

Please

They had Dez on a slant last week, Dak missed him, threw it too far ahead. Dez would still be running if Dak hit him in stride.