Twitter: Dez Routes and Coverages breakdown

[unionjack8]

utterly pathetic. and its on Garrett no matter how you cut it

 

[DallasDomination]

What did I say and have been saying for years?

Go freaking routes is all they have Dez run.. it's what Garrett did when we got hear and it's what Linehan does now. What moron coaching is that? You tell your best player to run balls to the wall 20+ times. Bunch of idiots.

 

[Sydla]

Dez did get his hands on two jump balls in the endzone, different story if he comes down with them.

Yep.

I think the best way to describe Sunday is to say while Bryant could have played better the coaching staff could have done a better job of getting the football to their best playmaker in the passing game.

 

[Idgit]

if he takes 2 defenders, that leaves 4 on 4 or 5 (sans QB). usually opens up a zone from someone (Witten or Beas) to sit in.

Diminishes odds for a PI flag, likely not going to be a splash play - requires low margin for error to sustain drives.

I think this was the point of spending the #4 on Elliot: to get another playmaker on the field to demand an extra man the way Dez does.

It's a perfectly legitimate thing to do on offense. We have to make them pay for doing it. Just like you do when the blitz or stack the box. That other WR needs to beat single coverage and make teams pay for the pleasure of doubling Dez or committing to Zeke. Failing that, you can move the chains with Beasley or Witten or Dunbar or whoever. But that WR2 needs to make some splash plays.

 

[DallasDomination]

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.

Thats all he runs and close to the end zone if its single covered ok throw it up.. but that is not his best route. A go route is for someone with break away speed. You have guys like Dez attack the middle of the field or you get them doing ins,outs,curls,slants,posts.. hell almost anything in the pass tree is better than a go route.

 

[Doomsday]

Pathetic! No wonder why he is dogging it on a few of the routes, he is probably gassed from being the most expensive decoy in the history of the NFL.

With all those Go routes, you would at least think he would run more curls / comeback routes and they would be wide open.

I would love to see Williams' routes as well, bet it is pretty similar amount of go routes.

 

[Sydla]

I am surprised more teams don't do this. You know, take their #1 WR, have him run a bunch of go routes and hope their #2 and #3 WRs can make plays. Silly Steelers decided to actually try to get the ball to their playmaking WR last night instead of having Brown run half his routes as sprints down the field so the other Steelers pass catchers could catch underneath stuff.

They probably would have won by 50 if they did that.

 

[Wolfpack]

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.

He was singled most of the game and funneled into go routes by the coverage the CB showed. They were not trying to use him as a decoy it's just how the Dallas system of route reads works.

 

[Sydla]

I wonder if the media in other towns breaks down things like this. I would be curious to compare the routes Bryant runs to say what Green runs in Cincy in a game or Jones in Atlanta. Of course each has certain strengths that are better for certain routes, but it still would be interesting to see how other teams use their elite WRs.

 

[jrumann59]

I heard this on the radio earlier. They had no intention to get him the ball with 21 go routes.

Like I said in another thread they had him running windsprints against coverage

 

[65fastback2plus2]

Garrett got his play book from madden 98

you shut your mouth...madden 98 was still decent lol

 

[Alexander]

Good way to be objective about it. As easy as it seems to blame staff, Dak also needs to see the field. He'll only get better as season goes along.

Of course. But to expect a 4th round rookie to do that out of the box is unrealistic. The job of the coaches is to make him see the field better with scheming, give him easier looks. Linehan stated it is the same offense with no tweaks and I believe him.

Look at Seattle, what Wilson does now is nothing like he did as a rookie.

 

[VACowboy]

Of course. But to expect a 4th round rookie to do that out of the box is unrealistic. The job of the coaches is to make him see the field better with scheming, give him easier looks. Linehan stated it is the same offense with no tweaks and I believe him.

Look at Seattle, what Wilson does now is nothing like he did as a rookie.

Stop with the common sense.

 

[CowboyRoy]

21 go routes. Does anyone not blame the coaching at this point?

Thats pretty much a decoy for underneath stuff. 16 million dollar decoy. LOL

 

[CowboyRoy]

This is interesting stuff. Tells you a lot of the story.

NO crossing routes or in the slot.

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

Couple things.

Dez was in the slot a few times.

While the Giants did have 8 in the box when we came out in what was a predominantly run formation, for most of the typical passing sets they were only 6 in the box and occasionally 7. I think some draws would have worked very well. As well as more of Dak attacking the edges.

I believe Dak was only reading half the field and for whatever reason, it seemed to be the side that Beasley and Witten were on most of the time. Not sure why it would be that way but it definitely seemed to be what was going on.

I watched every pass play several times and Dak was consistently throwing to an open receiver. There were a few occasions where he had a deeper option open, but it wasn't that often. I would stop the tape every time Dak was just about to throw and see who was open at that time. There were not very many times that Dez was open that Dak could have thrown it his way. There were probably 10 plays where the pressure was on him so fast he probably never had a chance other than seeing his first read.

 

[Alexander]

I wonder if the media in other towns breaks down things like this. I would be curious to compare the routes Bryant runs to say what Green runs in Cincy in a game or Jones in Atlanta. Of course each has certain strengths that are better for certain routes, but it still would be interesting to see how other teams use their elite WRs.

I don't think that is even necessary to describe what is already evident. Targets should tell the story. If the routes have a high degree of difficulty the player will probably be targeted less.

BTW, both Green and Jones have had no more than two one catch games in their careers. Bryant has had it happen four times.

 

[cowboys1981]

Of course. But to expect a 4th round rookie to do that out of the box is unrealistic. The job of the coaches is to make him see the field better with scheming, give him easier looks. Linehan stated it is the same offense with no tweaks and I believe him.

Look at Seattle, what Wilson does now is nothing like he did as a rookie.

Wilson also had a proven beast of a RB to help him out. Didn't fare too well Sunday without that beast.

 

[Alexander]

Wilson also had a proven beast of a RB to help him out. Didn't fare too well Sunday without that beast.

Wait, so there has to be a beast RB? What about the OL that everyone felt needed a catchy nickname because they are just so dominant?

 

[rwalters31]

He was singled up 16 times?

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