DC.COM Blog: Playing Keep-Away Not A Great Strategy

[Fletch]

Great, another game where we need to score last to win....probably need a field goal....Folk misses it to end our season.

Not addressing our field goal kicking situation earlier in the year will probably come back to bite us here. Folk has been terrible all year and Phillips has ignored it.

Game probably not that close, but if it is....it would be fitting for Folk to miss the FG to end our season.

Or it would be fitting to have Folk hit the game winning FG, continuing our season.

 

[Beast_from_East]

This is the game we may have to put Romo in the gun and tell him to throw it 50 times if needed. I would use alot of no huddle as well to keep their defense from subing. The old K-gun offense that the Bills ran with Jim Kelley was notorius for this. They just ran you up and down the field all day long and you had no chance to sub. The defense usually had their tounges on the ground gasping for air.

We have to score TDs, dont even bother kicking FGs (especially since Shankapotamus is still the kicker). Maybe a fake punt or fake FG or even going for 2 would be good options. We have to do the unexpected to have any chance.

On defense, you cant stop Brees and his receivers so lets just get that out there right now. What you can do is slow them down by making them go the length of the field to score. You do this by preventing any deep pass plays, keep everything in front of you and play a deep unbrella zone with both safeties playing center field. Give Brees the check downs and the 10 yard slants, curls, comebacks, ect.....The object is not to stop them, but to make them have to go the length of the field in 9 or 10 plays or so.


Thats basically the gameplan I think, let Romo air it out and play deep coverage while keeping everything in front of you on. This is our only chance and even if we execute this gameplan perfectly, I would still say less than 50% chance we can win.