Consolidate Offense

[ABQCOWBOY]

The more I watch the Cowboys, the more I get the feeling that we just don't know who we are on Offense. I think that if I were the H/OC, which I'm not, I would look at the play book and just get down to about 8 or 10 plays that you can do some simple variation off of and concentrate on that. We just don't execute enough and I wonder if it's because we have too many things we try to do. Look at our personel, figure out what our strengths are and run plays that help us win battles. If you can be good enough to execute on all plays in our playbook, then you don't have as many penalties. You don't have as many variables and it doesn't matter what the opposition does, you've seen it all and you know exactly what your supposed to do.

So what if we are predictable. If you exectute, it doesn't matter. Figure out what we're going to be guys and then go out and make use of our strengths. If we can't execute, then find players who fit and get better. We can't be all things to all people. We have to have one thing that is our bread and butter and we have to be able to do that, no matter who is in front of us.

 

[Cochese]

The more I watch the Cowboys, the more I get the feeling that we just don't know who we are on Offense. I think that if I were the H/OC, which I'm not, I would look at the play book and just get down to about 8 or 10 plays that you can do some simple variation off of and concentrate on that. We just don't execute enough and I wonder if it's because we have too many things we try to do. Look at our personel, figure out what our strengths are and run plays that help us win battles. If you can be good enough to execute on all plays in our playbook, then you don't have as many penalties. You don't have as many variables and it doesn't matter what the opposition does, you've seen it all and you know exactly what your supposed to do.

So what if we are predictable. If you exectute, it doesn't matter. Figure out what we're going to be guys and then go out and make use of our strengths. If we can't execute, then find players who fit and get better. We can't be all things to all people. We have to have one thing that is our bread and butter and we have to be able to do that, no matter who is in front of us.

This isnt the 90's. We dont have the massive talent edge that makes this line of thinking acceptable.

 

[CF74]

Exactly. All you have to do is disguise some of the plays and they will work.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Good post.

I've said that all year. We do a little of this, then a little of that, then a little of the other. At the end we've never established an identity of what we are or what we want to be on offense.

 

[windward]

The more I watch the Cowboys, the more I get the feeling that we just don't know who we are on Offense. I think that if I were the H/OC, which I'm not, I would look at the play book and just get down to about 8 or 10 plays that you can do some simple variation off of and concentrate on that. We just don't execute enough and I wonder if it's because we have too many things we try to do. Look at our personel, figure out what our strengths are and run plays that help us win battles. If you can be good enough to execute on all plays in our playbook, then you don't have as many penalties. You don't have as many variables and it doesn't matter what the opposition does, you've seen it all and you know exactly what your supposed to do.

So what if we are predictable. If you exectute, it doesn't matter. Figure out what we're going to be guys and then go out and make use of our strengths. If we can't execute, then find players who fit and get better. We can't be all things to all people. We have to have one thing that is our bread and butter and we have to be able to do that, no matter who is in front of us.

Yes.

I don't know in this salary cap era where teams are constantly remade over the course of 3-5 seasons if there is any sense in running a super complicated O (unless you have Peyton Manning at QB)

 

[khiladi]

Repeat with me:Simple is not the same thing as predictable...

 

[dbair1967]

Repeat after me...our OL is a failure

Fix OL= Fixed offense

 

[windward]

Repeat after me...our OL is a failure

Fix OL= Fixed offense

I agree 1 bllion %

 

[khiladi]

Yes, because Hudson Houck has no idea what he is doing despite his HoF career...Mark Rypien was all-world when he had one of the greatest OL in history... If every OL was like that, then every QB would pick apart the opposing defense...

 

[dbair1967]

Yes, because Hudson Houck has no idea what he is doing despite his HoF career...Mark Rypien was all-world when he had one of the greatest OL in history... If every OL was like that, then every QB would pick apart the opposing defense...

This has nothing to do with Houck being a poor coach, he's coached and developed some of the best individual OL's and OL's as a group in NFL history. He knows what he is doing.

What Rypien had was a fluke year in 1991.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Repeat after me...our OL is a failure

Fix OL= Fixed offense

Not that anybody cares to go back and look but at the begining of the year, I said that I felt as if we were thin at OL and if we suffered injury there, we would be in trouble. I think that it's easier to bring in talent and develope it if you have an offensive system that is simple to understand. You look at the Steelers who have been very succesful at replacing players with young guys they've drafted. They are a very simple offense and they enjoy success because they fit players into their scheme well.

It reminds me of when I was a young kid. When I was young, I wrestled and followed the sport much more closely then I do now. At that time, I used to go Dan Gables Wrestling Camp in Iowa. One of the things he always taught was that you don't need to have lots of moves or combinations. The Russians, who at the time, dominated the sport, only new 3 or 4 combinations. However, they executed them so well, understood the counters and cominations off those moves that you could not stop them. If they got an opening to attack you, they would beat you using one of 3 or 4 moves. They were flawless in the execution of those simple combinations. Gable would teach you in much the same way.

Now, I'm not saying we only need 4 plays but I am saying that we need to understand who we are and what we can do well. Establish just a few plays that we can run on anybody at any time and succeed. This is how you establish identity and I don't believe we really understand who and what we are. JMO