News: BTB: Why Couldn't The Cowboys Handle The Washington Blitz?

[khiladi]

Do we even have hot-routes in our passing game? I said this earlier, even wehn we adjust our WRs don't seem to change their routes to quick slants and passes down the middle, or even some screens. We have no real short passing game it seems.

 

[khiladi]

Agreed. Couldn't understand the constant passing with 15+ yard patterns against that blitz...almost seems like someone had money on the Skins.

I thought that to myself as well, especially with Linehan now coaching. It looked like Garrett was calling plays again.

 

[DFWJC]

Good stuff
Thanks

 

[casmith07]

Do we even have hot-routes in our passing game? I said this earlier, even wehn we adjust our WRs don't seem to change their routes to quick slants and passes down the middle, or even some screens. We have no real short passing game it seems.

It was just a failure all the way around. We were not prepared and we didn't adjust.

After watching some coaches' film, I'm not even really sure there's much to take away from it other than "we stunk." Put it in the trash can and next time run our game plan. Too much shotgun without enough protection or hot reads, which should ALWAYS be a part of the game plan. Shouldn't need film of your QB getting blasted from everywhere on the field to know that.

 

[khiladi]

One of the biggest complaint I've had with JG's offense is having everyone run long developing routes when our OLine was bad and couldn't block. Our Oline is better but we weren't picking up the blitz on Monday.

He never did a good job of adjusting when he was calling the plays and it was clear that neither did Linehan on Monday night.

Philosophically, how much is Linehan going to change in the passing routes? I remember the Denver game, when Romo went buck-wild with Dez, the drag route made it's appearance and Dez was killing the Broncos that game. I haven't seen it yet, but I haven't seen enough of the games to know if it's been called.

Do you remember the discussion last year about Crayton's interview and he mentioned how he asked Garrett where is the hot-read in a particular situation and Garrett was clueless in the meeting and took it as an insult. He also said something like Dallas needs a new OC, not just a new play-caller.

 

[khiladi]

It was just a failure all the way around. We were not prepared and we didn't adjust.

After watching some coaches' film, I'm not even really sure there's much to take away from it other than "we stunk." Put it in the trash can and next time run our game plan. Too much shotgun without enough protection or hot reads, which should ALWAYS be a part of the game plan. Shouldn't need film of your QB getting blasted from everywhere on the field to know that.

The thing is, I'm kind of hovering between Romo and play-calling. If Weeden didn't come in right away with the team bringing in an extra blocker and we threw a screen passe that netted like 23 yards and Witten was wide-open the next play because their DBs were exposed, I would blame the play-calling.

At the same time, during this time Romo wasn't even really talking to the coaches, but warming up because of his back. He probably was totally oblivious to the calls that were made with Weeden, so him going in to the game, that was the last thing on his mind.

 

[casmith07]

The thing is, I'm kind of hovering between Romo and play-calling. If Weeden didn't come in right away with the team bringing in an extra blocker and we threw a screen passe that netted like 23 yards and Witten was wide-open the next play because their DBs were exposed, I would blame the play-calling.

At the same time, during this time Romo wasn't even really talking to the coaches, but warming up because of his back. He probably was totally oblivious to the calls that were made with Weeden, so him going in to the game, that was the last thing on his mind.

I think they just figured Weeden couldn't do as much as Romo, similar to when Orton came in last year. Romo wasn't changing the call from a run to a pass at the line most times. He was getting the calls on 3rd and medium and they were sending in shotgun persronnel packages.

Weeden went in the game and we went back to double tight, power running. That's on the coaching staff to send in the personnel and the play-call. And it's further on the staff to realize that after a half of getting blitzed/sacked when you don't have enough blockers, to adjust. Our coaches failed to adjust personnel, but Romo also should've been able to go to Linehan and say "look, coach, they're sending too many guys. we need to go into our big sets and get the ball back on the ground to open up passing lanes for me."

Whatever, though, it's over and has been over for a while. I'm fairly confident we'll be ready for that *** next time.

 

[percyhoward]

Great article in the OP.

Anybody know if Dallas' receivers are coached not to make sight adjustments? Some teams (49ers) don't do it at all.

 

[khiladi]

Great article in the OP.

Anybody know if Dallas' receivers are coached not to make sight adjustments? Some teams (49ers) don't do it at all.

This is a good point, because we see certain assumptions on many of our posts regarding what Romo is suppose to do or a WR. If a WR is not suppose to make a sight adjustment, this would, most likely, by default imply that Romo probably just having to work through his progressions, which are long-developing multiple times.

Obviously, a third and long would dictate longer routes, making all-out blitzes a lot more succesful. The OL would have to block more men than normal, and no matter how good an OL is, it's an issue. And Romo has to buy time in the pocket for his WRs to complete their routes if they aren't just making adjustments based on what they see.

If we see a WR open during the time a blitz was about to happen, that doesn't necessarily mean Romo should have thrown it to him, unless the WR is the guy in Romo's progression.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

They are coached to do this. There was an article a few weeks ago that spoke about this. I don't have it and I can't find it but according to the article, the answer is yes. We do make site adjustments and route adjustments, depending on what the defense show's us.

To be honest, as I watched our Offense, especially in the 4th quarter and in OT, our offense looked confused. Tony is a smart guy. I wonder if it's a situation in which his ability to process info and make changes to the play call are simply more then what the rest of the team can adjust to on the fly. Take out what the actual adjustments are and if they are good or bad calls, just the simple ability for our players to keep up with what Tony is doing on any given play, the changes and adjustments he is making.

 

[TrailBlazer]

80%? Wow, that DeMarco Murray sure is good to have such an impact with his meager effect on the game. Stop making up imaginary football concepts, you're embarrassing. You know what there's no denying? You sure were QUIET, during the 6 game winning streak, about how important the QB is. I can't find nary a mention of it in your posting history. I can't find a single mention of you saying that Romo is 80% responsible for our 6-1 start. Why is that?

To answer your question, I prefer to yield to Travis Frederick's statement, that there is no one single person responsible for it. And yes, Romo had a bad game.

Lol I love Internet tough guys. Must've gone through something traumatic as a child to have so much angst built up that you have to act tough on the Internet to make yourself feel better.

You obviously didn't check my post history. I've posted everyday since the rams game lol. Not sure how that is being "quiet"

I was very happy with how linehan and romo were doing. Check my post history. If I think they aren't doing well, I'll let you know that too. It's called being objective. You can look up the definition of "objective" if you need to.

Romo is responsible for 2 main things, among others. Protections and audibles. Those 2 things were not on point, as illustrated in the article. Romo deserves blame for that. Fred is just being nice. It's on the qb to get enough blockers to stop the blitz.

QB ' s get paid so much bc they have that much more impact on the game.

I won't waste anymore time trying to explain the game to you. You obviously don't get it. Anything you perceive as negative towards romo, you take offense to. Romo makes mistakes, plenty of them. Stop living in denial. You will ruin what little credibility you have left.

If you are going to reply to my posts, at least have a good point or provide a counter argument, like other good posters do. Otherwise we will just go in circles all day. I don't have time nor the patience for that.