Brad Sham - Do Not Adjust. The Second-Half Problem Is Not With Your Set

[StarOfGlory]

There is also an argument to be made that if the coaching was horrible, we wouldn't be leading at halftime against GB, ATL and the Eagles when those teams clearly had more talent on the field.

I'm not trolling the haters but... well, OK. I am.

Do Green Bay and Atlanta really have that much more talent on the field? The Eagles I'll give you, and the second half curb stomping we took that game supports this. But I believe a bit more adjustments to what was happening on the field could have saved us the GB game and made the Atlanta game competitive.

 

[MileyDancer]

Garrett can't make even the most simple of adjustments. Against the Eagles, even a child can see that Garrett should have healed Tyron and Sean Lee at halftime and brought Zeke off the suspension list for the 3rd Quarter. How does this guy keep his job?

It's amazing how Garrett supporters just use excuse after excuse for his coaching ability. We are talking about adjustments. He didn't even have the common since against Atlanta to help Chad Green out when he was getting beat like a drum. But yeah, it's never Garrett's fault [insert new excuse here].

 

[Toruk_Makto]

Did you sit through the Atlanta game and in the first half not think maybe the team needed to make an adjustment to protect the quarterback because the left tackle could not block him? Even the announcers were saying that.

Chaz was given significant help. You cannot double a guy on every single play.

Ware in his heyday was not doubled on every single play.

 

[Zordon]

I'm pretty weak at pot banging tantrums. I actually think the game is about talent and execution. Strange, huh?

7 years and going...clap, clap, clap.

 

[visionary]

Chaz was given significant help. You cannot double a guy on every single play.

Ware in his heyday was not doubled on every single play.

When you've been owned
Just be quiet

 

[texbumthelife]

I can’t fathom how anyone can still be defending this coaching staff, particularly Garrett. Am I the only one who watch the Falcons game and saw Green manhandled over and over and over and the team never make the slightest bit of adjustment? That’s coaching. Period.

 

[Idgit]

Love how the homers still try to defend this coaching staff. Select people..broadcasters, opposing players, coaches..have been calling out Garrett's coaching for years. Now it's a national story. They can't keep blowing leads, especially at home, and then turn around and make excuses and apologies. The end is near, it's just a matter of time now.

I've asked this question many times, and never get a straight answer. If I recognize the flaws of the team, and happen to think the problems are, say, with a meddlesome ownership, the talent on defense, the risk taking with too many premium picks, and the fact that we devote too much draft capital to offensive players at positions where we're over drafting in the first place and when the offense historically hasn't been the problem----and you happen to think the problem is with the coaching staff----how does that make me a homer and you a realist about things? I mean, we're both seeing the same order of problem. What we disagree on is the root of the causes, not the scale of the problem.

The way I'd see that is that we're fans who disagree on their diagnosis re: how to improve the team. You probably think I"m blind to the obvious. I happen to think you're being swayed in an echo chamber and blaming the person in the highest-ranking replaceable position for failings that are actually occurring elsewhere in the organization.

And don't make me put together a list of stupid things involving the Dallas Cowboys that have become national stories in the past. It's a long list of things that hardly mattered at all in the scheme of things when it came to winning football games.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

When you've been owned
Just be quiet

So Chaz was not given significant help or Ware was always doubled.

What are you disagreeing with?

 

[Idgit]

Chaz was given significant help. You cannot double a guy on every single play.

Ware in his heyday was not doubled on every single play.

He was, but he wasn't given enough help. They did chip on that side 8-9 times. They ran at the widened gap. They rolled the pocket away from that side, and run away from that side, and change up the play calling to get the ball out faster, and, ultimately, they replaced the LT. It wasn't enough, though. And even if there was an obvious counter to it, they should have put a blocker out there full-time if for no other reason than to give the appearance of making an adjustment.

On the other hand, they did a better job with plugging that hole v. PHI. And didn't end up scoring any more points, as a result. They still have 4 sacks and three picks, and they played a game hamstrung with their offensive options.

If you've got a gaping hole at LT and a guy you don't trust at LG, and your RT has a challenging matchup, and your all-world RG is giving up pressure up the middle, your going to have problems on offense no matter what you do. That ATL game was lost when Lee went out, unfortunately.

 

[phildadon86]

So in the games we won where we won the 2nd half did we make adjustments or did the other team not make adjustments?

Because it's clear in all the games we lose we don't adjust..... or something as the logic here goes.

I just want to know if people are positing that at halftime Jason flips a coin and decides whether to make adjustments or not?

Yeah I’m pretty confused about this as well

 

[ak47kaehu]

Maybe linehan's second half game plan is an exact replica of his first half game plan? Teams have figured out this tendency.

 

[TwoDeep3]

Chaz was given significant help. You cannot double a guy on every single play.

Ware in his heyday was not doubled on every single play.

As I said there are several ways to accomplish this. Not just double the guy.

But from this post I can only determine you feel there was nothing that could be done. Unless you have left something out of this discussion.

I don't feel that expectations of a head coach to get involved with his coordinators to resolve an issue over half time is out of nth question. I also don't put up straw man arguments about the need for same.

 

[JoeKing]

Today on Talkin' Cowboys Bryan Broaddus laughed at this theory that the Cowboys coaching staff has a halftime adjustment problem. He said that's what "know-it-all" fans that really don't know anything say when they can't come up with any other explanation. I agree with him. Fans aren't even half as smart about NFL football as they think they are.

 

[Kaiser]

It isn't as black and white as you paint it.

Of course not, my post was sarcasm. There are maybe 100 people in the US that have the real information and enough background to really pass judgement on the issue. None of them are on this message board.

In terms of adjustments, what are the options? With Chaz Green getting killed in the first half against ATL, you have a guy that has played LT good/average in the past. At half time you can change your entire scheme and create problems elsewhere - or you can try to improve Green's technique on the fly so he plays at his previous level.

In reality they did some of both and Green still stunk. Some of that is on the coaches, most of it is on Green. It is nuanced and "Garrett can't make adjustments" is unnuanced nonsense.

Take the Eagles game. You are playing your 3rd string LT so in the first half you run right and do controlled roll outs. The Eagles adjust, like everyone knows they will. So what do you do? Do you put in your 4th string LT? Do you run to the left knowing its a weaker option?

The answer is you have no good option. And that isn't a case of "Garrett sucks", its a case of Byron Bell being a bad option.

 

[Beast_from_East]

So Chaz was not given significant help or Ware was always doubled.

What are you disagreeing with?

Dude, we are talking about the difference between the Atlanta game and the Philly game. Why do you think Jerry said mid-week that they were unprepared for the wide 9, but they had a much better plan for their blocking scheme against Philly.

If there was nothing wrong with how they blocked against Atlanta, why the need to change the scheme? So what did they do?

In the Philly game, it was totally different. They left TEs in on almost every play lined outside the LT, they had a RB to chip or help block lined up behind the LT almost every play, they tilted the line blocking to the left, they rolled the pocket to the right several times, they changed the entire blocking scheme like Jerry said.

So the question becomes, why were these adjustments not made DURING THE ATLANTA game?

 

[Kaiser]

Do Green Bay and Atlanta really have that much more talent on the field? The Eagles I'll give you, and the second half curb stomping we took that game supports this. But I believe a bit more adjustments to what was happening on the field could have saved us the GB game and made the Atlanta game competitive.

I can definitely see the argument with the Packers, but IMO Aaron Rodgers elevates the play of everyone on that offense and it puts them above us in talent.

Atlanta is a team that should have won the Super Bowl last year and they were playing at home. We had Zeke and Tyron out, with Sean Lee out most of the game. Most of the unbiased observers favored Atlanta.

 

[StarOfGlory]

Dude, we are talking about the difference between the Atlanta game and the Philly game. Why do you think Jerry said mid-week that they were unprepared for the wide 9, but they had a much better plan for their blocking scheme against Philly.

If there was nothing wrong with how they blocked against Atlanta, why the need to change the scheme? So what did they do?

In the Philly game, it was totally different. They left TEs in on almost every play lined outside the LT, they had a RB to chip or help block lined up behind the LT almost every play, they tilted the line blocking to the left, they rolled the pocket to the right several times, they changed the entire blocking scheme like Jerry said.

So the question becomes, why were these adjustments not made DURING THE ATLANTA game?

Those adjustments really helped us...we only lost by 28 at home against Philly. Someone forgot that the other team might have a real DC and also make adjustments. Look at how Philly rotated gap schemes in the second half, look at how they attacked and isolated blockers so they could get to Dak and stuff running lanes. They didn't beat us simply because they have better personnel; they beat us because their coaches put that talent into schemes that they identified as being able to work against our schemes. Too bad no one on our sideline seemed to figure that out during the second half.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Today on Talkin' Cowboys Bryan Broaddus laughed at this theory that the Cowboys coaching staff has a halftime adjustment problem. He said that's what "know-it-all" fans that really don't know anything say when they can't come up with any other explanation. I agree with him. Fans aren't even half as smart about NFL football as they think they are.

“They might not adjust at the right time in a series, they might not adjust at the right time in a ballgame, and obviously they can lose ballgames.

“But this is a really outstanding coaching staff. I’m really proud to have them.”....................Jerry Jones


Seems the owner of the team thinks the coaches don't adjust either, not just the fans................so Broaddus is laughing at Jerry?

 

[sbark]

Chaz Green......I'll even go as far as saying the Coaching staff made a huge error spending all camp and preseason attempting to plug him as a Tackle in at LG. ie a square peg in a round hole.

Last year he did fine to very good as a sub for LT..............a young guy with injury problems would've been best left alone to perfect his skills at swing tackle. Spent all pre-season learning diff tech, diff footwork and then shoved in a island at LT---dont know his mental makeup, but it mustve been too much, who knows if he can now bounce back at all long term at any position.

 

[diefree666]

So Chaz was not given significant help or Ware was always doubled.

What are you disagreeing with?

six sacks by ONE MEDIOCRE PLAYER who admitted he only needed one move to get each one. On top of the pressures and everything else and YOU CLAIM NOTHING MORE COULD BE DONE.


Your pathetic attempt to homer Red Ball and company is actually quite amusing.

Your claim that adjustments were made go counter to what several former players and coaches have said. SO NOW you are smarter than someone who has coached or played in the NFL.

Keep it up. I need a laugh.