Bring back the Dink-&-Dak

[CF74]

They need to mix it up. A little dink and dunk, runs, and occasionally through it deep with some intermediate passes sprinkled in...

 

[America's Cowboy]

I want a team and a QB to impose their will on defenses. Not “taking what the opposing defense gives you”.

This team is too mistake-prone for long methodical drives that end in Tds. They are too poorly coached.

As an aside, what top qbs do you know dink and dunk besides Brady?

Brees, Rodgers, Roethlisberger, Mahomes and your group's favorite, Wince.

 

[aikemirv]

This game plan stuff for the Packers is nonsense. We have no idea what their gameplan was since they went down 17-0. That said, I liked the way they came out. I would have chosen the exact same thing. You take advantage of what the defense is doing. Packers would have thought we were going to run it down their throat after what the Eagles did to them. Taking advantage of them keying on the run was the right thing to do on that first drive. Cooper just screwed it up with the drop.

The second drive stalled as we passed on first, ran on 2nd for no gain and got sacked on 3rd

3rd drive was another pick.

Game plan was pretty much out the window after the Pollard series with another sack.

 

[aikemirv]

Dak has to be able to check down quicker. He is being a bit greedy. He needs to see the pressure coming as well. A lot of the times he moves out of the pocket too late.

 

[GMO415]

@WillieBeamen , @PAPPYDOG and their group hate the dink-n-dunk philosophy because it is opposite of their beloved Romo's way of playing football. This is what they fail to understand about winning football and taking what the opposing defense gives you. They want the gunslinging performance show at all costs because they get bored. ADD

After two losses, I can see JG returning to the ball control method of winning the time of possession.

 

[TexasHillbilly]

Good point. That's why Brady is the dink and dunk king

Dang that Brady, he is just stinkin good. The man is clutch.

 

[GMO415]

They need to mix it up. A little dink and dunk, runs, and occasionally through it deep with some intermediate passes sprinkled in...

I think that's the way we need to run this offense. Moore better start game planning against his opponent, and stop sticking to a general script.

 

[mattjames2010]

No


As much as I kill Dak, I rather air out than see the dink and dunk crap.

Dak works better with "dink and dunk" - what you're getting with air it out is a 2 TD and 3 INT performance. Turnovers usually determines victories and losses. There is a reason average Alex Smith made the playoffs all but 1 time from 2011 to 2017

 

[RJ_MacReady]

The problem with trying to reenact what our offense did in 2016 is that our O-line is now a shell of its former self and we can’t go 4 or 5 plays without committing a drive-killing holding penalty.

The best thing for offense is to hit on splash plays, get up on our opponent early and then resort to Zeek’ing & Dak’ing to kill the clock.

 

[Vegas_Cowboy]

Dak works better with "dink and dunk" - what you're getting with air it out is a 2 TD and 3 INT performance. Turnovers usually determines victories and losses. There is a reason average Alex Smith made the playoffs all but 1 time from 2011 to 2017

This.

Short and intermediate passes is where Dak thrives. If we're going to keep him around and pay him 35Mill per, we may as well play to his strength.

 

[GMO415]

Dak works better with "dink and dunk" - what you're getting with air it out is a 2 TD and 3 INT performance. Turnovers usually determines victories and losses. There is a reason average Alex Smith made the playoffs all but 1 time from 2011 to 2017

Dink and Dak works great with an elite RB....oh wait

 

[OmerV]

I agree, the game plans should have been reversed. Heavy run against the Pack and air it out against the Saints.

But that would take a competent head coach to realize that and well, we are kinda missing one of those at the moment.

The Cowboys actually started out mixing in a lot of the running game, but when they got down 17-0, then 24-0 they abandoned the run almost completely.

The biggest thing is the offense has to clean up the mistakes, The Cowboys generated about 230 more yards of offense than Green Bay did, but the turnovers and penalties kept them from scoring.

 

[GMO415]

The Cowboys actually started out mixing in a lot of the running game, but when they got down 17-0, then 24-0 they abandoned the run almost completely.

The biggest thing is the offense has to clean up the mistakes, The Cowboys generated about 230 more yards of offense than Green Bay did, but the turnovers and penalties kept them from scoring.

But our time of possession was crap.

 

[OmerV]

But our time of possession was crap.

Which fits with exactly what I said. We had turnovers that shortened possessions, and then after we got down by 3 scores or more (which was pretty early on) we mostly abandoned the running game.