DandyDon1722
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I'm always fascinated by what happens during the course of a play that leads to it's success or failure and I thought I would pass this along for those who also like stuff like this.
It's a dissection (with pics) by Jonathan Bales of the DMN on Romo's INT.
This is right out of a CouchScout type of post which I love because what happened is not what you think happened.
http://cowboysblog.***BANNED-URL***...oys-how-the-seahawks-confused-tony-romo.html/
If you don't want to read the whole article here is the explanation on what led to the interception broken down into three parts.
1. The Seahawks ability to confuse Romo on disguised blitz packages when he rarely gets confused. When they looked like they were going to blitz they pulled out and when they did blitz they disguised it, unlike what the Giants did last week. Since 2009, Romo has a similar passer rating whether teams blitz him or not. When they show blitz and indeed come, however, his passer rating (120.9) is 41.5 points higher than when they blitz after not showing it. Similarly, his passer rating is 40.1 points higher when defenses line up conservatively and don’t blitz as compared to showing blitz and then backing out. On this play they faked the blitz, pulled out, then dropped a defensive end (Clemens) into coverage which caused Romo to hesitate.
2. When Romo recognized Clemens dropping in coverage he hesitated and immediately had pressure in his face. Since he had nowhere else to go he tried to throw the ball away to what he knew should have been an open space except for...
3. Dez gave up on the play. Once Dez saw Tony hesitate and get pressure he flat out quit on his route freeing his defender Brandon Browner to make a play on the ball.
So what appears to us as a bad throw/decision, we now see how the play actually broke down. I believe these elements, while small in the course of a play are a part of the big picture of the team.
Of the three, Romo's reads are the least of the concerns although according to these numbers I think other teams will continue to try to disguise blitz packages which could cause him trouble. I wish he would just throw the ball out of bounds sometimes but in this play he had very little options other than taking a sack but he tried to save the play.
The pressure can be attributed to simply not being good enough on the offensive line, those guys are going to get beat, we're just going to have to accept it.
The fact that Dez still has not grasped how the small things are what separates great players from great talent is disheartening (and I'm being kind).
I'm sure this will be pointed out to him in the film study and maybe he'll understand it for next time.
It's a dissection (with pics) by Jonathan Bales of the DMN on Romo's INT.
This is right out of a CouchScout type of post which I love because what happened is not what you think happened.
http://cowboysblog.***BANNED-URL***...oys-how-the-seahawks-confused-tony-romo.html/
If you don't want to read the whole article here is the explanation on what led to the interception broken down into three parts.
1. The Seahawks ability to confuse Romo on disguised blitz packages when he rarely gets confused. When they looked like they were going to blitz they pulled out and when they did blitz they disguised it, unlike what the Giants did last week. Since 2009, Romo has a similar passer rating whether teams blitz him or not. When they show blitz and indeed come, however, his passer rating (120.9) is 41.5 points higher than when they blitz after not showing it. Similarly, his passer rating is 40.1 points higher when defenses line up conservatively and don’t blitz as compared to showing blitz and then backing out. On this play they faked the blitz, pulled out, then dropped a defensive end (Clemens) into coverage which caused Romo to hesitate.
2. When Romo recognized Clemens dropping in coverage he hesitated and immediately had pressure in his face. Since he had nowhere else to go he tried to throw the ball away to what he knew should have been an open space except for...
3. Dez gave up on the play. Once Dez saw Tony hesitate and get pressure he flat out quit on his route freeing his defender Brandon Browner to make a play on the ball.
So what appears to us as a bad throw/decision, we now see how the play actually broke down. I believe these elements, while small in the course of a play are a part of the big picture of the team.
Of the three, Romo's reads are the least of the concerns although according to these numbers I think other teams will continue to try to disguise blitz packages which could cause him trouble. I wish he would just throw the ball out of bounds sometimes but in this play he had very little options other than taking a sack but he tried to save the play.
The pressure can be attributed to simply not being good enough on the offensive line, those guys are going to get beat, we're just going to have to accept it.
The fact that Dez still has not grasped how the small things are what separates great players from great talent is disheartening (and I'm being kind).
I'm sure this will be pointed out to him in the film study and maybe he'll understand it for next time.
