Twitter: Dez Routes and Coverages breakdown

[superonyx]

21 go routes and people wondered why he seemed to not run back I to the huddle with vigor.
The dude knew the ball wasn't coming his way.

I hate to say this but JG is wasting Dez's career and will soon do the same to Dak.

 

[The Natural]

"Bu but, he only knows 2 routes"

 

[TheCount]

lol, he ran 2 slants the whole game and 21 go routes. Great gameplan.

 

[Nova]

I get the sense that some don’t realize that this essentially means Dez was seeing more than one defender on 74% of passing snaps.


And that is a really high number.


For reference sake, the other top guys in the league saw double coverage between 30-50% of the time in an outdated study I did in 2013.


But you all have to realize that this is by design. On many downs, Dez is just a decoy. Sometimes it works awesomely and it doesn’t matter because we win.


Though it is really important to keep this in mind when Dez seems to ‘disappear’.

 

[The Natural]

Joey Ickes ‏@JoeyIckes 25m25 minutes ago


Final Alignment #s for Dez full game:

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Final Route #s for Dez full game:

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Final Coverage #s for Dez full game:

@plymkr

I would trade Dez Bryant. I would love to trade him for a 1st rounder and I would do it for a 2nd rounder, or two 3rd rounders, one this year and one next year. If someone is willing to take on that contract.

Bryant has not been the same since he got paid and injured. He runs 2 routes. Either he doesn't know how to run more routes or the coaching staff doesn't use him correctly and his career is being wasted. Might as well try and get something for him.

Thoughts

Instead of trading Dez how about we just get rid of this lame duck head coach and get a real offensive mind in here.

 

[Nova]

21 go routes and people wondered why he seemed to not run back I to the huddle with vigor.
The dude knew the ball wasn't coming his way.

I hate to say this but JG is wasting Dez's career and will soon do the same to Dak.

Been saying it for years.

 

[Sydla]

When I saw 21 go routes, my first thought was also, "decoy"............ get Dez going deep, maybe occupy a safety, get Beasley and Witten more room underneath for the safer throws for Prescott.

I get that in one sense but in the other sense, Bryant is your biggest playmaker in the passing game. To not use him more on slants just seems bizarre to me. His strength is his physicalness and strength.

 

[Mr Cowboy]

I get the sense that some don’t realize that this essentially means Dez was seeing more than one defender on 74% of passing snaps.


And that is a really high number.


For reference sake, the other top guys in the league saw double coverage between 30-50% of the time in an outdated study I did in 2013.


But you all have to realize that this is by design. On many downs, Dez is just a decoy. Sometimes it works awesomely and it doesn’t matter because we win.


Though it is really important to keep this in mind when Dez seems to ‘disappear’.

great strategy, pay your best WR $70 million to be a decoy..... just amazing. Antonio Brown had like 10 catches and a couple of TDs, but our best WR is a decoy. You just can't make this up!

 

[gmoney112]

Pretty much what I expected. Whoever said he was used as a decoy is about right. They're content letting dez draw attention so they can hit an open Witten or Beasley.

How many times was he in the slot, put in motion, or in a bunch formation?

It was funny watching Pitt last night. The whole world was watching Antonio Brown and he took a giant dump all over Washington. JJ produces every week with Matt Ryan throwing to him.

Dez needs to be a weapon, not a decoy. He's my Queen chess piece on offense, move him around the board.

 

[Zman5]

I get the sense that some don’t realize that this essentially means Dez was seeing more than one defender on 74% of passing snaps.


And that is a really high number.


For reference sake, the other top guys in the league saw double coverage between 30-50% of the time in an outdated study I did in 2013.


But you all have to realize that this is by design. On many downs, Dez is just a decoy. Sometimes it works awesomely and it doesn’t matter because we win.


Though it is really important to keep this in mind when Dez seems to ‘disappear’.

I think the opposing defenses do this because they know if he is doubled, we usually don't throw to him. It's their way of dictating how we run our offense. They much rather we try to beat them with Witt and Bease then Dez taking over games. They are betting that when we dink and dunk, we will eventually make a mistake.

 

[NextGenBoys]

To be fair, his best route is a go route. That's where his true strengths lie.

Now with that being said, it was huge overkill. No variation, no creativity to get YOUR BEST PLAYER THE BALL.

 

[Mr Cowboy]

Pretty much what I expected. Whoever said he was used as a decoy is about right. They're content letting dez draw attention so they can hit an open Witten or Beasley.

How many times was he in the slot, put in motion, or in a bunch formation?

It was funny watching Pitt last night. The whole world was watching Antonio Brown and he took a giant dump all over Washington. JJ produces every week with Matt Ryan throwing to him.

Dez needs to be a weapon, not a decoy. He's my Queen chess piece on offense, move him around the board.

They were talking about this on NFL radio today, about never putting Dez in bunch formations, slot or in motion to avoid the coverage. They couldn't understand why they didn't do it, when Linehan did it with Calvin in Detroit.

 

[tyke1doe]

Just think how drained any receiver would be after 21 go routes, they were using him to clear out or decoy.

That's what I was thinking too.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Dak's accuracy was crap beyond dink and dunk. (behind, or causing the reciever to slow down allowing coverage to catch up)

We can probably blame a lot of that on Romo getting all the heavy snaps until his injury. Hopefully, this improves dramatically during practice this week. He has to be able to attack downfield or the 8 men in the box is going to eat their lunch.

 

[Daillest88]

Seriously things to be changed we have to catch the skins off guard. Hit dez in the slot over the middle we will destroy them there linebakers are atrocious

 

[Sydla]

It does appear that they used Dez in the slot, what 10 times? So roughly 25% of the time he was inside, but the go routes seem like overkill.

 

[boyzjunkie]

How about we throw the ball to him. Anytime we can get him a ball to fight for inside their twenty we have little to lose. Worst case scenario is an interception.Odds are (if he is fighting for the ball) both players go to the ground and we are no worse off than having punted. If half the time Dez comes down with the completion we are in the red zone or better.
The Giants throw to Odell in double and triple coverage and he is a boy physically compared to Dez. Just get the ball to him and let him fight for it. It will get his juices flowing early and keep him in the game for 60 minutes.

 

[Nova]

great strategy, pay your best WR $70 million to be a decoy..... just amazing. Antonio Brown had like 10 catches and a couple of TDs, but our best WR is a decoy. You just can't make this up!

Yeah don’t get me wrong. I don’t think it’s a good thing.

But it’s not “Dez can’t get open” or “Dez doesn’t know the route tree”… It’s that they’re not really trying to get Dez open the majority of plays.

Sometimes they put a nice wrinkle in for 88 and it’s obvious the guy has a good feel for the playbook, timing, spacing, etc.

With that said he often times make more of his opportunities than what we saw last week and it’s not as big of a deal.

 

[Tenkamenin]

He was singled up 16 times?

If we had a real Head Coach with chops, Dez would average 1,500 yards a season. Not only have we wasted Dez's career but also our seasons, because we have decided to get everyone else involved instead of Dez.

 

[Plumfool]

This is a schoolyard offense.