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

[NumOneQB]

Sham sees the coaching staff is a sham...

 

[Zman5]

Okay, believe what you want.

Likewise.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

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?

You should know that that will go over everyone's head. Fail on a nuanced level.
Good try.

 

[TwoDeep3]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...dallas-cowboys-upon-further-review/859064001/

Here is an article about the Atlanta game. About half way down it is discussed about what the Cowboys did about the game plan.

It appears to me there is a Johnson measuring contest now going on about this.

Most likely no one is right.

 

[TwoDeep3]

It is a matter of practicality. There simply is not enough time to make meaningful changes. And if there is...then there is that same amount of time and more to make changes during the game.

It's a matter of practicality. You have 12 minutes.

It's a matter of three houtrs and when your squad is on the sidelines, your Coordinator and position coaches are instructing people. These guys don't live in sealed package. They talk all the time during the game.

 

[TwoDeep3]

Did you even READ the article you linked in your OP? The answer to your question is in there.

By the way, there’s another of those “ex-player turned announcers” quoted as saying he’s never seen wholesale adjustments made at halftime.

Wholesale is your word. Not mine.

 

[Beast_from_East]

So what you're saying is that sometimes there is only so much you can do when your players cannot win individual matchups even if you put them in favorable situations, even when you limit your offensive options to offer them additional help and even if that makes you predictable and easier to defend?

So it's not as simple as to say "just make an adjustment" in a game you're winning 9-7 at halftime?

It makes me wonder sometimes about all the people complaining if they've ever played organized ball before. Sometimes talent just beats strategy when you're facing superior players or when your talent doesn't show up.

But I get it. It's easier to say we are a coaching move away form the Superbowl rather than saying hey we need to continue to improve the roster because we have obvious holes and some depth concerns behind really important players.

That begs the question, why after 8 years on the job under Jason Garrett is the roster so talent deficient?

Unless Jason Garrett is just a glorified cheerleader and has no say in personnel at all, isn't he responsible for the players he puts on the field?

 

[Beast_from_East]

I'm laughing at you.

I know you are not the sharpest tool in the shed around this board, but could you at least try to engage in the conversation at a 1st grade level if nothing else?

I know it might be hard, but I think you can do it

EDIT............Dude, I just realized you have freaking Case Keenum as your avatar, you are a Vikings troll!!!

It all makes sense now, reading your posts I was thinking no Cowboys fan could be this ignorant about the game of football...........I am much relived now.

 

[kumizi]

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.

look who our President is


nothing will amaze me again about the stupidity of the average person

 

[Grevus]

This article only gives us an insight to what happens during halftime. I appreciate it and it does make sense, but the issue of not making adjustments is exactly the problem. This team doesn't seem to make any. Whether it's at halftime or during the game, adjustments are needed. We see it all the time. Announcers usually mention it during the games. The coaching staff on this team doesn't seem to do it. Football is part chess match. The great coaches know how to make the adjustments needed to put the players in the best position to win. We either don't do it because we don't have the players, or we just don't do it. Either way, this is a coaching and front office problem.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Which of my statements do you disagree with? I said he was given significant help. I also said that even the best pass rushers cannot be doubled every single play nor can one man be given help on every single play. Do you agree or disagree?

Furthermore I asked another question considering in all the games we have won this season we have won the 2nd half did we make adjustments in those games or did the other team not make adjustments? I'm just trying to understand where people stand on the issue.

The entire point of the "Thanks Garrett!" mentality is keep it simple stupid with the emphasis on the stupid.

They don't want to examine their opinion compared to reality. They want justice for whoever it was that made them feel bad for those blowouts.

Cowboys losses are like a gom jabbar. Whole slew of people yanked their hand out of the box at the first itch.

 

[diefree666]

look who our President is


nothing will amaze me again about the stupidity of the average person

yeah look at who we ALMOST got as president. LOTS of stupid people out there.


I have to laugh at those claiming that either there were some adjustments or that there was no time.

Clearly there was NOT enough done no matter what; and once again OTHER team have been able to do so NOT OURS.

The defenders of our coaching staff are looking more and more pathetic each game.

7 years.

Think on that.

In that time about a dozen OTHER teams have been rebuilt and are contenders NOW. And THEY DID IT IN TWO OR THREE YEARS USUALLY.

Look at Philthy and where they were three years ago. That is the best example of all of our front office and coaching staff failure.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

That begs the question, why after 8 years on the job under Jason Garrett is the roster so talent deficient?

Unless Jason Garrett is just a glorified cheerleader and has no say in personnel at all, isn't he responsible for the players he puts on the field?

I don't know about that. If anything its a failure in pro scouting. Chaz Green played well last year. He was competent at OG this season. Does he now suck and can never come back to that. Is that really on Garrett or is on the pro scout and the position coach?

LB talent is problematic but we have depth at a lot of other positions like LB, RB, S, DL, and WR. There is a reality to roster construction in the free agent era and sometimes **** happens.

And of course if you really want to replace Garrett who do you want to replace him. And keep in mind that said coach needs to be able to function in this environment that is according to conventional wisdom so dysfunctional.

 

[diefree666]

I don't know about that. If anything its a failure in pro scouting. Chaz Green played well last year. He was competent at OG this season. Does he now suck and can never come back to that. Is that really on Garrett or is on the pro scout and the position coach?

LB talent is problematic but we have depth at a lot of other positions like LB, RB, S, DL, and WR. There is a reality to roster construction in the free agent era and sometimes **** happens.

And of course if you really want to replace Garrett who do you want to replace him. And keep in mind that said coach needs to be able to function in this environment that is according to conventional wisdom so dysfunctional.

that in the end is always your excuse. That we might get worse. Well WHERE are we NOW? Are we SUPERBOWL CONTENDERS?
SO what do we really have to lose that we have NOT HAD THE LAST 20 YEARS?

 

[DogFace]

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.

Can you give some specific examples of how they adjusted and some on where/how we did not so I can better understand the adjustment argument?

I see the Chad Green one, but what are some others that I just can’t see given only the view television provides.

 

[DogFace]

Can anyone give some examples of adjustments that were made by the other teams and some the Cowboys should’ve made and didn’t??

I see the Chad Green one was very clear and odd they didn’t give him help every play or replace him.

What are some others? So I can understand the argument better.

 

[DogFace]

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?

I’ve heard arguments from some that say you just can’t change a weeks worth of protection plans at the beginning of that game. Timing etc. would be off.

Which is ridiculous imo. For various reasons. Namely not adjusting to that cost us any chance of winning.

 

[Jarv]

look who our President is


nothing will amaze me again about the stupidity of the average person

Well it could have been worse!

 

[Stash]

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.

"Smart enough" to know bad football and bad coaching when they see it.

Ironic that a failed scout should be throwing around a "know-it-all" tag on the people who ultimately pay his and everyone else's salaries. In defense of a coaching staff who have never won anything between them.

But yeah, sure...

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

that in the end is always your excuse. That we might get worse. Well WHERE are we NOW? Are we SUPERBOWL CONTENDERS?
SO what do we really have to lose that we have NOT HAD THE LAST 20 YEARS?

That is not an excuse. That is an ethic. Acting without a plan for what comes after is a recipe for disaster. You don't even argue the point but instead fixate on your need for revenge.

I am fine with upgrading Garrett and am trying to get that discussion going. All I get from your post is that you are emotional and bent on reprisal.

I do like how you act that its so simple and the issues over the past twenty years are all exactly the same. We could compare the 1996 and 2016 drafts but I feel actually looking at reality would be wasted on you.