Carte Blanche

[Galian Beast]

My greatest hope after the loss to the Patriots is that Tony Romo gets Carte Blanch to run this offense against the Rams and future opponents.

Sure I agree with managing him to an extent in certain situations. Against 26-28 teams, I probably agree with Garrett's approach to let the defense finish out the game. You just don't do that against the Patriots, nor would I suggest doing it against the Packers or the Saints, maybe not even against Detroit, and San Diego either.

The one thing I would like to be able to see is more chances in the redzone. How many of Romo's picks this year have come in the redzone? I think he has one redzone turnover, which was that fumble.

I'm not sure why we weren't able to take some shots in the redzone against the Patriots. Whether it was the line not holding, receivers not getting open, or Romo not being able to pull the trigger.

What I never want to see again is that shovel pass non sense...

Jason Garrett is in his first full year of being a head coach, the man really should have done himself a favor and hired an offensive coordinator. I'm not certain how these offensive coaches just skated through the offseason as if the 2010 offense wasn't at all a problem. I think they got the benefit of the doubt because Romo was hurt for the year. Fact is the offense was a problem since Week 1. Specifically the offensive line and running backs. What did we do? We promoted everyone involved and the blame I guess went on Ray Sharman, Barber, Columbo, Davis, and Gurode.

I see our offensive coaches as an absolute train wreck, and that is why to this day we can't even line our offense up properly, we don't have people running proper routes, and we can't even get blocks in front of screens...

What happened to preseason? We were running good screen routes. Now every screen we set up has NO BLOCKS in front of it. Who told the coaches this is the best way to run screens?

 

[TheCoolFan]

Offense is just so blah....

I hate the excuse that the OLine isn't good enough. While they aren't great, it's the playcaller's job to be able to get the most out of the offense despite the OLine not giving Romo 10 seconds in the pocket and/or opening gaping holes for the RBs. EVERY offense wishes they had a dominant OLine and in reality, few have one. The Packers did not have a great OLine nor a great running game but Mike McCarthy figured out how to put pressure on defenses by making their aerial assault one of the best in the league.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Can he play Guard?

 

[Galian Beast]

Offense is just so blah....

I hate the excuse that the OLine isn't good enough. While they aren't great, it's the playcaller's job to be able to get the most out of the offense despite the OLine not giving Romo 10 seconds in the pocket and/or opening gaping holes for the RBs. EVERY offense wishes they had a dominant OLine and in reality, few have one. The Packers did not have a great OLine nor a great running game but Mike McCarthy figured out how to put pressure on defenses by making their aerial assault one of the best in the league.

There are varying degrees of "not great"

The Packers I believe I stated in a different post had 11 rushing touchdowns in 2010, compared to our 1 rushing touchdown in 5 games...

 

[Kevinicus]

There are varying degrees of "not great"

The Packers I believe I stated in a different post had 11 rushing touchdowns in 2010, compared to our 1 rushing touchdown in 5 games...

How much of that is teams having to respect the pass with the Packers? With the Cowboys Garrett likes to go into a jumbo package with like 8 guys all bunched together making it perfectly obvious to the defense that they should sell out on the the run, thus they overwhelm our line.

 

[Don Corleone]

No player on any team should ever be given "carte blanche". That is a recipe for disaster, and that's what coaches are for. IMO, if that's how they are running this team, then that explains why we haven't won jack in the Tony Romo era.

Would you give your kid "carte blanche" with your Ferrari after he/she dinged it a couple of times, but proved responsibility and the capability to follow orders just once?

 

[JoeCorrado]

Friday night and somebody (several somebodies judging from the early morning threads today) found the $1 long necks I see!!

What happened to preseason? We were running good screen routes. Now every screen we set up has NO BLOCKS in front of it. Who told the coaches this is the best way to run screens?

Lots of stuff works in the preseason. That's why it's called preseason. It doesn't count.

 

[Sarge]

I'd first just like to win... but secondly, I'd like to get a running game going......Rams or not.