Changes in the offense scheme?

[waldoputty]

since the 1st game, there seems to be less of:
1. presnap motion
2. throwing on 1st down
3. runs with receivers spread apart
4. play action
5. crossing routes but more curls like last year
is this true?

i think the crowd noise was only bad in the saints game?

 

[Rajveer]

Something sure happened. This is not the same play calling we saw in the first few games. Its like we put brakes on ourselves. I can understand today with the injuries, but cant explain last two weeks.

 

[ShortRound]

Garrett

 

[Zman5]

Constant run on 1st down tells me Garrett happened. Even Romo was saying we should stop running on 1st and throw instead against the Jets.

 

[Parcells4Life]

Today they started running more to protect the defense. New Orleans was due to crowd noise and last week was going well until the turnovers killed their drives.

Without the 2 starting tackles, they can’t use as many deep routes since protection won’t hold up. Then with Cooper out also everything went to crap

 

[texbumthelife]

As soon as we started having turnovers you had to know Garrett was gonna put the clamps on that.

 

[texbumthelife]

Today they started running more to protect the defense. New Orleans was due to crowd noise and last week was going well until the turnovers killed their drives.

Without the 2 starting tackles, they can’t use as many deep routes since protection won’t hold up. Then with Cooper out also everything went to crap

You do realize they're still running all the deep routes, right? They're just not completing them. It's the formations, motion, and variation on first down that's missing.

 

[Hoofbite]

since the 1st game, there seems to be less of:
1. presnap motion
2. throwing on 1st down
3. runs with receivers spread apart
4. play action
5. crossing routes but more curls like last year
is this true?

i think the crowd noise was only bad in the saints game?

I don't have any data to back it up but it really feels like Dallas runs from tight formations a disproportionate amount of time. It also seems like the only time they actually do run from a spread formation is when it's out of the shotgun.

 

[MojaveJT]

Romo said the offense has JG’s fingerprints all over it. I believe him.

 

[JayFord]

Romo already said Garrett has his fingerprints on the offense

So its back to “out play your man”

 

[cowboyec]

im still baffled we tried a run on 3rd and 11...but i shouldn't be....thats the process.

 

[CF74]

Romo said Garrett did it

 

[Parcells4Life]

Romo said the offense has JG’s fingerprints all over it. I believe him.

To be fair he said from the 2007 season. That season JG was calling for go routes to T.O. all the time. The JG offense has been VERY different over the 10 years. When he first came here it was was a version of Mike Martz. Then it got more conservative to 90s style, now it’s more college.

 

[KingintheNorth]

There also happened to be significantly less awful Giants, Redkins, and Dolphins defenders.

Not that the Jets defense is amazing by any means; we just made them look that way.

I agree that the shifts and motions seem less and that the offense looks and feels more like Garrett. If that's true, it should give Jerry all the more reason to fire Garrett sooner than later.

 

[Cmac]

im still baffled we tried a run on 3rd and 11...but i shouldn't be....thats the process.

….now that was a baffling play too....somebody is calling some mystifying head scratchers.

 

[Zman5]

I posted a video of Romo saying that the Jets scheme will give us problems more than people think. After hearing his comments today, I know why he said it.
He knew JG's offense never had an answer for Greg Williams style of blitzing defense. That type of defense used to get Romo killed.

When you have a defense coming hard down hill every time , you need to try to have them defend side line to side line. We had some success with runs to the outside. We should have kept having them defend horizontally. We should have run more jet sweeps and screens to slow them down. We didn't run a screen until late in a game.

 

[StarWiz2]

Lol. JG is throwing the team under the bus to save his job. Unbelievable. And of course it's JG's play calling. Garrett even said, after the first 3 games which were a marvel to behold offensively, that they needed to emphasize the run more. When I heard that, I thought to myself, it's over. The Cowboys will not win another game.

See, Jason has a history of throwing people under the bus. Like Romo, when Romo asked to try to win his job back. Or, like the team when Garrett never takes the blame for a loss. It's always we have to execute better.

To me it makes perfect sense that JG would throw Moore under the bus. He was getting too successful too soon, and threatened his job. And yes, there are people with terribly insecure personalities capable of shooting themselves in the foot like that.

JJ or Stephen better step in and make sure that moving forward, Kellen is unimpeded in his play calling, or the Cowboys may not win another game.

 

[MysteryIceGuro]

since the 1st game, there seems to be less of:
1. presnap motion
2. throwing on 1st down
3. runs with receivers spread apart
4. play action
5. crossing routes but more curls like last year
is this true?

i think the crowd noise was only bad in the saints game?

Jason Garrett got his nasty little red headed hands on the damn playbook and playcaller. It’s all a part of his master plan. Basically: if they win, he can take all the credit. “It was me!” “We executed well” “I did a good job calling plays tonight”, however, if they lose, it all falls back on poor little Rookie OC Kellen Moore. He knows we, the fans, will go easy on KM since he looked so great Weeks 1-3 and the fact that he is a rookie playcaller. Jason Garrett knows what he is doing. His job is on the line, so he needs to make himself look as good as possible, and if that include an ruining the season and careers/reputations, so be it.

 

[ClearVision]

Something sure happened. This is not the same play calling we saw in the first few games. Its like we put brakes on ourselves. I can understand today with the injuries, but cant explain last two weeks.

It’s like Jason Garrett liked what he saw and tried to enhance it his way...

Oops lol

 

[Tabascocat]

It is becoming more clear that our offensive scheme/coaching has no clue what they want to do or who they want to be. It just seems like call a play, any play and hope it is executed properly even if it is against the wrong defensive setup.

It is like me trying to play Madden.....keep hitting a bunch of buttons and pray that I picked the correct play to run