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http://www.examiner.com/article/terrell-owens-taking-his-beatings-roy-e-williams-slams-jason-garrett
While Roy Williams sucked no doubt, very little is remembered that the offense was getting slammed that year, because the emphasis was on TO as being a blow-hard and one who destroys the culture. Irrespective of this fact, there were still tendencies that were apparent on this offense which revealed problems with play-calling and utilizing players according to their talents.
There are two things that are now apparent even to the most die-hard supporters of Garrett who have turned, that has become essentially defining of Garrett's offense:
1. The predictability of the routes and their being limited, which is in stark contrast to the claim that routes are not run because WRs like Dez are idiots. This made it incredibly easy fo CBs to defend WRs.
2. We didn't run the slant then and we don't now that much, though the slant was clearly a favored route for guys like TO and Williams. This article brought back that very 'slant' play that Dallas finally used.
This article as an aside was from 2009, the season Roy was traded during the middle of the year and finished his first year with the Cowboys.
Owens isn't the only Cowboys getting hammered. The battering of Jason Garrett, the Cowboys offensive coordinator, continues. Roy E. WIlliams said on his third radio interview of the week that cornerbacks would also ask him why he'd be running the same routes all the time. If true, it is a truly embarrassing mark against Garrett's offense. Williams said he didn't run a slant until the final game of the year. The Cowboys won championships on the slant. The could do it again.
While Roy Williams sucked no doubt, very little is remembered that the offense was getting slammed that year, because the emphasis was on TO as being a blow-hard and one who destroys the culture. Irrespective of this fact, there were still tendencies that were apparent on this offense which revealed problems with play-calling and utilizing players according to their talents.
There are two things that are now apparent even to the most die-hard supporters of Garrett who have turned, that has become essentially defining of Garrett's offense:
1. The predictability of the routes and their being limited, which is in stark contrast to the claim that routes are not run because WRs like Dez are idiots. This made it incredibly easy fo CBs to defend WRs.
2. We didn't run the slant then and we don't now that much, though the slant was clearly a favored route for guys like TO and Williams. This article brought back that very 'slant' play that Dallas finally used.
This article as an aside was from 2009, the season Roy was traded during the middle of the year and finished his first year with the Cowboys.