Did the Bills Expose us??

[MichaelWinicki]

The Bills were showing man in response to motion and then dropping into zone coverage and I think that confused Romo. Its not exposing him its just something he can learn from and thank the heavens a we didnt get a loss in the process.

That's really about it.

 

[Nors]

btw, I wish the rest of the league would copy the BIll's D blue-print from last night, they left the middle of the field wide open for Witten all night

Bob you keep saying that,

Three of Romo's interceptions were trying to jam it in to Witten. They were enticing Romo to throw it into zone coverage and they read his eyes and were jumping routs or fielding overthrows all night.

 

[Nors]

Didn't Romo himself say he was confused by some of the looks the Bills threw at him? If the Bills can do that, don't you think Hoodie can really throw exoctic schemes into the mix?

I really, really believe what Bills did was exactly what Hoodie was going to do to Romo. He's going to flood zones and kepp Romo in front of them and force him to throw it into coverage. I was big on the 2 Line Look and up and down.

I think Garrett and Romo are going to go gaga over what Bills did and be ready for Pats to do the same. I think BB is going to adjust to yet something else that may confuse or harm Romo. 4-3 look and sending 7-8 into the box and try and knock Romo out. Get him antsy and woosey.

My biggest fear this season with Romo is his lack of size at 6-2 and 220. Can he take a season of NFL pounding? I think we are on eve of precipice of finding out!

 

[theebs]

I really, really believe what Bills did was exactly what Hoodie was going to do to Romo. He's going to flood zones and kepp Romo in front of them and force him to throw it into coverage. I was big on the 2 Line Look and up and down.

I think Garrett and Romo are going to go gaga over what Bills did and be ready for Pats to do the same. I think BB is going to adjust to yet something else that may confuse or harm Romo. 4-3 look and sending 7-8 into the box and try and knock Romo out. Get him antsy and woosey.

My biggest fear this season with Romo is his lack of size at 6-2 and 220. Can he take a season of NFL pounding? I think we are on eve of precipice of finding out!

his size is perfectly fine. I am so tired of hearing about his size and weight, plenty of qbs have played in this league at a high level who were his size.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I really, really believe what Bills did was exactly what Hoodie was going to do to Romo. He's going to flood zones and kepp Romo in front of them and force him to throw it into coverage. I was big on the 2 Line Look and up and down.

I think Garrett and Romo are going to go gaga over what Bills did and be ready for Pats to do the same. I think BB is going to adjust to yet something else that may confuse or harm Romo. 4-3 look and sending 7-8 into the box and try and knock Romo out. Get him antsy and woosey.

My biggest fear this season with Romo is his lack of size at 6-2 and 220. Can he take a season of NFL pounding? I think we are on eve of precipice of finding out!

Nors Romo wasn't even sacked last night. He was hit a few times but it wasn't an extreme beating by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[RomoMan]

No-however, I was surprised by how Romo was fooled by all their "fake blitzes"-with a depleted secondary and LB corps, you KNEW they weren't going to blitz. Maybe he was distracted? Maybe Ms. Underwood broke it off with him? Maybe he was ill last night?

I think he learned from this-he'll be OK.

 

[Nors]

Nors Romo wasn't even sacked last night. He was hit a few times but it wasn't an extreme beating by any stretch of the imagination.

I agree totally, I'm saying Pats point of emphasis is going to go afterRomo and try and bloody him more than Bills did. Romo took some shots last night also with minimal blitz. That Schobel, Kelsay tandem is nasty.

 

[RomoMan]

I agree totally, I'm saying Pats point of emphasis is going to go afterRomo and try and bloody him more than Bills did. Romo took some shots last night also with minimal blitz. That Schobel, Kelsay tandem is nasty.

Belichick also uses some Cover 2 in his schemes-unlike Pitt's and SD's 3-4 attacking, blitz, blitz schemes, BB mixes it up alot more. And the Pats have a very, very good secondary to boot.

 

[Garland powerplay]

4 int. will be $ for New England. No way can Mr. Romo as great as he is afford to throw 5 int. against a team with an avg. offense. It wouldn't hurt to relief pitch Romo with Brad Johnson. An ace pitcher needs a reliever sometimes too. If an ace pitcher gives up 10 runs in the 1st 3 innings he will be pulled to pitch another day. This could be applied in this case. Brad Johnson could have beat that team, although Romo had the 3rd highest rating pregame. This is professionals in a performance based game.

 

[percyhoward]

We weren't exposed. The Bills did us a favor by not respecting our short passing game. And who could blame them, since we hadn't shown much of one.

That's changed now, thanks to what the Bills did. The only thing that got exposed was our stubbornness in insisting on moving down the field in "big chunks."

 

[vicjagger]

Actually, we were the 15th team to do it since the merger in 1970....

Thanks, Adam. I've since clarified what I heard and it wasn't 2 other times it was 2 times total on Monday Night Football, the other person to do it (besides Romo) was Wade Wilson.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Yeah Dallas can't come out slow against a team like New England..

 

[Garland powerplay]

Will they be able to overcome this 1st half grind ? The 1st and 2nd half have been night and day all year. What gives?

 

[Rampage]

we didn't get exposed but Romo/garrett had a bad game. i was there and on certain plays I could tell what routes we were gonna run before the snap. garrett needs to open up his playbook more

 

[Nors]

we didn't get exposed but Romo/garrett had a bad game. i was there and on certain plays I could tell what routes we were gonna run before the snap. garrett needs to open up his playbook more

Bills seemed to know too, they were jumping Romo All game and run blitzing early to perfection on us.

 

[03EBZ06]

Some people think a team can play great all 16 games. Simply put our offense, specifically, Tony Romo just had a bad game. Every QB has some bad games, even the great ones.

No we were not exposed, just played a bad game, offensively. Even then, we won, that should speak volumes about this team.

 

[Rampage]

Bills seemed to know too, they were jumping Romo All game and run blitzing early to perfection on us.

exactly, if i know what they are gonna do than you know the pro's know even more

 

[ravidubey]

I really, really believe what Bills did was exactly what Hoodie was going to do to Romo. He's going to flood zones and kepp Romo in front of them and force him to throw it into coverage. I was big on the 2 Line Look and up and down.

I think Garrett and Romo are going to go gaga over what Bills did and be ready for Pats to do the same. I think BB is going to adjust to yet something else that may confuse or harm Romo. 4-3 look and sending 7-8 into the box and try and knock Romo out. Get him antsy and woosey.

My biggest fear this season with Romo is his lack of size at 6-2 and 220. Can he take a season of NFL pounding? I think we are on eve of precipice of finding out!

Romo is also elusive, so he misses some of the shots other QB's would take. I worry more about conditioning and fatigue on top of the standard bumps and bruises every QB gets. He's never played a full NFL season and with the problems the running game has been having getting untracked early the team relies on him too much to get the offense going.

To temper this Garrett and Romo need to emphasize outlet throws and even designed throws to the backs. Develop accuracy there and a small pass can become a huge, demoralizing gain with the side benefit of getting the running backs into the game even when the run isn't working.

I really like the way Anderson turned upfield last night, for example.

 

[RomoMan]

Some people think a team can play great all 16 games. Simply put our offense, specifically, Tony Romo just had a bad game. Every QB has some bad games, even the great ones.

No we were not exposed, just played a bad game, offensively. Even then, we won, that should speak volumes about this team.

Didn't Indy give up 375 rushing yards in a game last year?

 

[percyhoward]

Garrett and Romo need to emphasize outlet throws and even designed throws to the backs. Develop accuracy there and a small pass can become a huge, demoralizing gain with the side benefit of getting the running backs into the game even when the run isn't working.

I have to believe that's about to happen. Going into that game, Romo had 33 attempts of 1-10 yards, and 33 of 11-20 yards (air yards). No one will respect your short passing game if you're basically ignoring it yourself.

On the fifth INT, did you see JJ in the left flat? He had the entire left third of the field to himself, with nothing but open field between him and the goal line. The closest defender was the LB who was standing on the left hash at the five yard line, 16 yards away.