Why did we lose to the Giants and Packers?
It had nothing to do with how many times we ran or passed, we turned the ball over too much in both games, while not getting enough of our own. Period, end of story.
But the way Jason Garrett calls games, the team goes as Tony Romo goes.
And thats pretty much the status quo for the NFL, if your QB plays well you have a good chance usually, if he doesnt, then you usually dont. Romo isnt a scrub, over time he has proven to be one of the leagues best QB's. He isnt a Quincy Carter who has to (or needs to be) hidden or de-emphasized in the offense.
We are entirely dependent on Romo's arm every week and that shouldn't be the case.
I dont agree with that at all. His play is tied to the other 10 guys on offense. If the OL plays poorly (as it did vs GB) he wont have as much success. You can argue all you ant about running the ball more, but if the OL doesnt block you end up with alot of 2nd and 3rd and longs. And other than the first series vs GB, those guys didnt block for the run or the pass.
If another team comes out playing the pass like Green Bay did, we need to be prepared to run on them until they change to stop it.
GB pretty much stoned our run game, especially after Barber's first couple of carries on the opening drive.
Why continue throwing the ball when they know you want to and they scheme to stop it?
I didnt see them do anything amazing to scheme the pass. They did a ton of blitzing, of which we did a very poor job of picking it up. We had plays there to make, they just didnt get made or got negated by a drop, or a fumble, or a penalty. I'm not sure why you (or anyone else) thinks that if we had simply run more times, it would have equated to more yards and a definite win. We couldnt block the blitz when we passed, those plays were still blitzes. They would have still had guys coming into the backfield. There is a theme developing here, and its teams blitzing alot against us. Until we do something to make them pay, we're gonna keep seeing it. Atlanta blitzed more vs us than they had in any of their other games. Seattle blitzed us alot. Philly blitzed us alot, and then we saw GB blitz over and over and over.
There's more than one way to win a game.
Yep. We have a good defense and good special teams. So you have to count that. We do have 3 very good RB's, but unfortunately 2 of the 3 are playing hurt. I dont think its any coincidence whatsoever that when those 3 guys were all 100%, our run game was pretty good.
The best players on our offense are the QB and the TE. The past few season you would add the #1 WR to that group. When thats the case, its foolish to not use that to your advantage.
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