Beasley Stopped on his route on INT

[Gameover]

It was a good audible, just a bad throw, IMO.

Run the football

 

[BlindFaith]

In fairness, it was 2nd and 1. A 1st down there is a pretty big deal.

Not as big of a deal as an interception.

Come on. We needed at least 40 yards with a little over a minute to play. Second and 1 and we run THAT play? A play designed to get two or three yards? Into double coverage? Really? Is there any justification for that? Either by play caller or QB?

It was just dumb.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

How many of those option routes have cost us INTs at the end of games? I know the Dez one in that Jets game opening day was one, and I know there have been others. Why can't you have packages in situations where you need to be more conservative that make things more simple for the Qb and the receiver? I'm so tired of the excuse that "they weren't on the same page". Well, when two people are reading things on the fly, that will happen sometimes. Seems like there would be a way to reduce all those moving parts in those situations.

 

[Deep_South]

Not as big of a deal as an interception.

Come on. We needed at least 40 yards with a little over a minute to play. Second and 1 and we run THAT play? A play designed to get two or three yards? Into double coverage? Really? Is there any justification for that? Either by play caller or QB?

It was just dumb.

Nothing dumb about it. With a little over a minute left, everyone on the field knew Beasley needed to catch the ball, get out of bounds, and get the first down. Beasley just got confused and stopped. He had no option to pull up on that particular play, according to Beasley. It was just a mistake, and I doubt he'll ever repeat it because it was wrong on a couple of levels.

 

[Doomsay]

Seems like there would be a way to reduce all those moving parts in those situations.

NFL - level OC/HC?

 

[Brooksey]

Beasley is a class act who is taking the blame for his QB. That doesn't mean it's true. A handful of experts said Beasley did exactly what you're supposed to do on that route. Doesn't it make sense that someone would take the blame? And doesn't it also make sense that people like Tony Dungy and Troy Aikman and some more people I can't think of would know how a WR should run that route? They all said Beasley did the right thing.

Aikman didn't say that, he said Beasley pulled up on the route.

 

[noshame]

If there was no built in adjustment to that play then two things, not one are horribly wrong.

1. The play design is awful. But we've seen plenty of that from Garett
2. The QB should have never thrown the ball to begin with knowing that Beasley would be running right into the boundry corner.

And all of this for a potential TWO yard gain? Brilliant.

Thank you for explaining this to the football challenged in this thread.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

Aikman didn't say that, he said Beasley pulled up on the route.

He also said it wasn't a bad thing to do on that route since the CB was right there

 

[BlindFaith]

Nothing dumb about it. With a little over a minute left, everyone on the field knew Beasley needed to catch the ball, get out of bounds, and get the first down. Beasley just got confused and stopped. He had no option to pull up on that particular play, according to Beasley. It was just a mistake, and I doubt he'll ever repeat it because it was wrong on a couple of levels.

If indeed he made a mistake and isn't just covering for his QB, then the reason he got confused was because it didn't make sense to him to keep running when there was a defender there. Just like it didn't make sense to any "expert" that saw the play and said that he did the right thing by sitting down.

So I will say it again, the play design was DUMB and the choice to throw the ball into that coverage was DUMB

 

[coogrfan]

Not as big of a deal as an interception.

Come on. We needed at least 40 yards with a little over a minute to play. Second and 1 and we run THAT play? A play designed to get two or three yards? Into double coverage? Really? Is there any justification for that? Either by play caller or QB?

It was just dumb.

There's nothing dumb about it. The point of the play was to move the sticks, which we needed to do. If the wr runs the route properly it's not a particularly risky throw either.

Good call, lamentable execution.

 

[coogrfan]

Run the football

We're talking about the last possession. Running the ball was no longer an option.

 

[yentl911]

We can get on him for making a route adjustment or Romo throwing a couple of picks but the issue is total game mismanagement. Period.

You run the ball to keep your pathetic D on the bench and run out the clock. If they did that none of this would have ever happened.

We had a perfect scenario for doing just that - our D was playing like an 8th grade team and we were averaging over 7 yards a carry. This is basic football here folks. No need to pay millions of dollars a year for a coach to get these concepts - these are taught in middle school. I am so pissed off.

 

[yentl911]

If you want to knock Beasley knock him for not putting his head down and getting the 1st down on the play before. You put it all on the line on a play like that and take nothing for granted.

Typical Dallas player being unaware of the game situation......direct result of piss poor coaching.

 

[Deep_South]

If indeed he made a mistake and isn't just covering for his QB, then the reason he got confused was because it didn't make sense to him to keep running when there was a defender there. Just like it didn't make sense to any "expert" that saw the play and said that he did the right thing by sitting down.

So I will say it again, the play design was DUMB and the choice to throw the ball into that coverage was DUMB

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. To me, it looked like there was no doubt if Beasley would have kept running the ball would have gone right to him, just like he said in the interview.

 

[Brooksey]

He also said it wasn't a bad thing to do on that route since the CB was right there

If that's what was worked on in practice, it's Romo's fault. It obviously was not worked on and therefore was a miscommunicate. In general you don't sit down on a sideline out. Go watch the play.

 

[Gameover]

We're talking about the last possession. Running the ball was no longer an option.

End of the third qtr was the killer.

Terrible game management. GB shouldn't have seen the ball until the 4th qtr. instead, they're in scoring position w/ :08 seconds still to go in THIRD QTR. Inexcusable

 

[coogrfan]

End of the third qtr was the killer.

Terrible game management. GB shouldn't have seen the ball until the 4th qtr. instead, they're in scoring position w/ :08 seconds still to go in THIRD QTR. Inexcusable

True, but off topic.

 

[Deep_South]

It was the 5 touchdowns the D gave up in the 2nd half that was the killer. One of the guys at dallascowboys.com said our D looked like it was a last preseason game.

 

[joseephuss]

If indeed he made a mistake and isn't just covering for his QB, then the reason he got confused was because it didn't make sense to him to keep running when there was a defender there. Just like it didn't make sense to any "expert" that saw the play and said that he did the right thing by sitting down.

So I will say it again, the play design was DUMB and the choice to throw the ball into that coverage was DUMB

You do realize there were other receivers running routes on that play.

 

[Gameover]

That's why you should run the ball when your defense is that porous. Running the ball takes tics off the clock. If you take enough off, maybe the Cowboys could've escaped with a victory. Romo had 19 incompletions that is a lot of tic stopping. Make 10 of those runs and maybe Romo doesn't have to pull a miracle in the end. It works both ways