Film Session: Why Dak changes Linehan’s play

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Exhibit 1 in the case for Linehan to be fired and a new OC with a new system be brought in. Garrett can remain the HC but his offense has to go. This also shows that the OC calling the plays has no faith in his QB when all he calls is short come backs and curls.
 

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Had Cooper not said anything no one would have known and this wouldn’t be a story. Dak yells kill kill on 60% of plays. Changes happen all the time.

What I really don’t like is now that It’s known the thumbs up means go route, defenses will look for any communication between Dak and Cooper at the line and adjust.
 

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Had Cooper not said anything no one would have known and this wouldn’t be a story. Dak yells kill kill on 60% of plays. Changes happen all the time.

What I really don’t like is now that It’s known the thumbs up means go route, defenses will look for any communication between Dak and Cooper at the line and adjust.

Pretty sure he and coop will change it up weekly.
 

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it is staggering that the eagles would play single high press in many of those clips and have no fear of our WRs going deep with a bunch of beat up cbs. that says something about linehan and how predictable our routes are imo.
 

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Had Cooper not said anything no one would have known and this wouldn’t be a story. Dak yells kill kill on 60% of plays. Changes happen all the time.

What I really don’t like is now that It’s known the thumbs up means go route, defenses will look for any communication between Dak and Cooper at the line and adjust.
Yeah, but Coop said he changed it to a Go-Route with a hand-signal.
 

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it is staggering that the eagles would play single high press in many of those clips and have no fear of our WRs going deep with a bunch of beat up cbs. that says something about linehan and how predictable our routes are imo.

As well as Cooper sold those comeback routes, there were a couple times when the corner was not fooled based on our frequency of running that route.

What’s worse is that there were several plays in which all of our receivers ran that same route. A decent defense in zone picks that play off for 6.
 

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Pretty sure Rwd will be HC next year
High hopes Rod retires or consults and Richard is promoted to DC.
But yeah, Linehan has to go.
 

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Film Session: Why Dak Changed Linehan’s Play



Best part was where they showed that Gallup hesitated on that one deep ball. Had he not, its probably right on the money. So at the end of the day there were 4 deep balls and Dak hit on 2 of the 3 where he could. Great percentage. And he also had that 35 yarder to Cooper that didnt go for a TD.
 
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As well as Cooper sold those comeback routes, there were a couple times when the corner was not fooled based on our frequency of running that route.

What’s worse is that there were several plays in which all of our receivers ran that same route. A decent defense in zone picks that play off for 6.

corners sitting on hook routes with a single high safety....and these corners aren't deion, revis, or even byron jones for that matter. this is rasual douglas, sidney jones coming off injury with matt (?) leblanc and bausby. bad corners not afraid in a scheme where they are being left alone with little help....
 

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Exhibit 1 in the case for Linehan to be fired and a new OC with a new system be brought in. Garrett can remain the HC but his offense has to go. This also shows that the OC calling the plays has no faith in his QB when all he calls is short come backs and curls.

If you look at most of those routes on nearly all of them, every guy is just running 10 yards and turning around? Unbelievable. So our QB and WR are having to make sandlot hand signals to go deep? Pathetic.
 

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it is staggering that the eagles would play single high press in many of those clips and have no fear of our WRs going deep with a bunch of beat up cbs. that says something about linehan and how predictable our routes are imo.

That is the biggest takeaway to me as well
 

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Had Cooper not said anything no one would have known and this wouldn’t be a story. Dak yells kill kill on 60% of plays. Changes happen all the time.

What I really don’t like is now that It’s known the thumbs up means go route, defenses will look for any communication between Dak and Cooper at the line and adjust.

All they have to do is get smart and put the thumps up a few times and throw it short and that will confuse the defense.
 

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Yeah, but Coop said he changed it to a Go-Route with a hand-signal.


As well as Cooper sold those comeback routes, there were a couple times when the corner was not fooled based on our frequency of running that route.

What’s worse is that there were several plays in which all of our receivers ran that same route. A decent defense in zone picks that play off for 6.

Its a wonder that Dak doesnt throw 4 picks a game with this horrid route tree.
 

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romo was a qb and full time OC during his time here. i remember being stunned from comments butler (?) made when he came here that romo basically schemed the offense each week.

You can hear Romo's aggressiveness from the booth every week. He would be a defenses worst nightmare as OC because they would be on their heels all game long because he is coming at you!
 

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Its a wonder that Dak doesnt throw 4 picks a game with this horrid route tree.

And the worst part is that these criticisms of clear tendencies is nothing new whatsoever. Linehan has been getting hammered for running far too many hitches and comebacks for years now. Great to see that absolutely nothing has changed.

One can only dream of what a good offensive coordinator might get out of this team.
 
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