Bad snaps

[esmith1790]

i posted in the game clip video. It seems that in the ROMO chews out costa clip that ROMO lifts his left foot 3-4 inches. Am i reading too much into it?

 

[ArmchairQB]

But as I rewatch our highlights, the whole O-line goes when Costa snaps the ball, ... only Romo was caught off guard.

And twice it looks like Romo was ready, but the ball gets by him.

If you have any inkling that any of this snap deal was Romo's fault, you don't know football....

 

[JoeCorrado]

This is all on Phil Costa, why cant people accept that, instead of making excuse for his poor play?

I have to agree. Costa has to be able to snap the ball when Romo asks for it regardless of anything else. I place the responsibility squarely on Costa's shoulders. He is young and learning things as he goes, this is no different. Learn and move on.

If the Commanders were doing things to intentionally rattle Costa or to confuse him, then they deserve our thanks for assisting in the improvement of Costa as a player.


We can work on thanking them appropriately when next we meet.

 

[RoyTheHammer]

Fix it, that is all I care about at this stage. Costa fault, Romo fault, Jason fault don't care fix it!

This. Right there with ya man. Just get it taken care of.

 

[Little Jr]

Its been going on for 5 yrs now. 2 different C same result.

 

[Clove]

Fix it, that is all I care about at this stage. Costa fault, Romo fault, Jason fault don't care fix it!

:signmast:

 

[WV Cowboy]

So you mean to say Bowen wasn't calling out the cadence?

This entire board has been saying that since Tuesday

Is your problem actually reading, .. or just comprehension?

 

[TheFinisher]

When asked about Costa’s claims, Bowen said, “Honestly, I don’t understand how I could simulate his snap count. Am I supposed to memorize the colors and the numbers he was saying? Honestly, I lost a lot of respect for Costa. If that was the case, then why didn’t any of their offensive linemen jump offsides? It makes no sense, because he’s lying. Just be a man and stand by your word. Everybody respects a man that tells the truth.”

“Even during the game, the ref came to us and asked if we were making fake snap counts, and I looked at Barry [Cofield] like, ‘Huh? Did you make a noise? I didn’t make a noise. I didn’t even hear anything,’” Bowen said. “So for him to say that, I’m disappointed, and I lost respect in him. He’s making excuses for messing up. And they’re trying to make me out to be some guy that I’m not. I’m not that type of person. I just line up and play ball.”

Bowen said he didn’t understand what benefit Washington would have gained by a defensive lineman barking out fake snap counts.

“I don’t know how you can do it,” Bowen said. “You’re so zoned out, you’re so concentrated on your play and to give a fake snap count, you may confuse your guys and make them jump. There’s no point in that.”

Commanders Coach Mike Shanahan was asked about Costa’s claims and he said they were false.

“The one thing about accusing somebody for doing something like that, especially nowadays, especially this year, is the center is mic’d,” Shanahan said. “And when the center is mic’d, you go back in audio and see if one of our players did say a snap count, and they did not.”

Bowen sounds pretty sincere and I tend to believe him, no way that happens 5 times and the Refs don't call it at least once. Costa needs to get it together, miscues with the snap kill drives.