Game Planning to our offensive line

[Galian Beast]

I just don't think you can do it.

Yeah, obviously we want to keep Romo safe. But the way we played last week with the screens and check down passes..., it just doesn't work. We probably could have put up 40 points on those vikings.

Romo is tied for 4th in the nfl in touchdowns with only 5 games played. If it wasn't for these tipped passes going for interceptions, he would be an early candidate for league MVP.

Only Tom Brady has played 5 games and is tied with Romo (although without Moss, his numbers WILL drop).

But the point that I'm trying to make is...

Tony Romo is ranked 3rd in the nfl in sack percentage. Only Manning and Cassel are sacked less per dropback. And thats not because of our offensive line.

Looking at Romo's unrealisticly high completion percentage and extremely low sack percentage, its obvious we're not taken enough time for routes to develop.

Not only that, but Romo needs to also learn when to just take the safe sack, like on his first interception from last week.

Clearly we don't want him getting hurt, but he might need to stand in the pocket a little bit longer for our offense to open up, either that or we need to design more called roll outs to help the offensive line give him more time.

Not to mention I don't remember seeing hardly any play action last week. People want to point out the running game suffered, but i'm not at all surprised. When 90% of your plays are screens or runs up the middle without variation, you're not fooling anyone.

The play action pass works not only for the passing game, but for the rushing game as well. The whole point is to get the defense to play less aggressive. And thats when screens work. You catch them when they ARE aggressive and off guard. Then their aggression turns into caution.

I hate to bring Madden into this, but despite the rep it gets here, I'm sure everyone here plays it.

If I played you in Madden and 90% of my plays were runs in between the tackles or screens, how hard would it be for you to keep the safeties back and leave a linebacker in basically to spy the running back? This certainly wouldn't work against the zone defense either, which you could sit back in if you aren't passing to pick it apart.

 

[ConstantReboot]

I absolutely blame Garrett for the awful playcalling.

He called plays in order to protect the oline rather than called plays that would help us win. Thats his problem. He reacts to what were weaknesses are and game plans around that.

Funny you mentioned that we don't do play action pass anymore. Well, in 2007 that was our bread and butter play. Play action froze the linebackers and then Witten would slip into a little opening for a catch. That doesn't happen anymore because Garrett has just about got rid of play action.

And the main reason why I really dislike Garrett is because of this.

He has turned Romo into a pocket passer.

Romo a few years ago went thru his progressions. This year it seems he is forced to run the play as how its drawn out. Those quick passes doesn't give time for Romo to read the defense and react to it. It seems that he is forced to just run the play as is. Therefore, we have alot of tip balls at the LOS and interceptions while targeting our tight ends.

All this because Garrett wants to protect our oline.

Basically what is happening right now, Garrett has changed the offensive philosophy so much that were having to play dink and dunk ball control offense. Thats why we don't score. Thats why we are one of the lowest scoring teams in the NFL. Its because we got rid of the big plays from our play action and went to an offense thats predictable, ball control, spread the ball out type of offense.

Yes it sucks thats why Im upset at Garrett. I consider him to be the major factor why Romo has regressed and has thrown for too many INTs. Get rid of Garrett and our offense will be back making those big plays down field.

 

[Galian Beast]

yeah at least 4 interceptions have come off of passes to tight ends, i think maybe even 5, not sure who that pass was aimed to at the end of one of the games.

We also pass to our tight ends entirely too much. The tight end should be almost a safetly valve, not a major element in the offense.

I agree with your assessment 100%

 

[Galian Beast]

if you notice that 31 yard bomb to dez bryant in the end zone... romo dropped back stepped up in the pocket and threw the ball. That's what our offense should be. Even that happened pretty quickly.

The defense overpursued and the line created a nice pocket around him.

 

[Baileyneverfailey]

I agree with you. Our O-Line is not great, but at some point we're going to have to drop back and throw it downfield, even if that means keeping one or two extra blockers in.

If we can't even throw the ball further down field than a screen because our O Line is so terrible, then we may as well give up on the season and admit our entire O-Line not named Free need replaced in the offseason.

 

[sbark]

if you notice that 31 yard bomb to dez bryant in the end zone... romo dropped back stepped up in the pocket and threw the ball. That's what our offense should be. Even that happened pretty quickly.

The defense overpursued and the line created a nice pocket around him.

Dont think Garrett designed that play...because it was actually effective. Austin ran a deep post pattern that held the FS in the middle of feild, allowing Dez 1 on 1 on the sideline.......

just have never seen that from Garrett prior...so can give him credit

 

[aikemirv]

I don't know how anyone can complain about a gameplan that absent a stupid pushoff had 28 points on the board against a tough Dline.

Gameplan was not the problem against the Vikings.

 

[Galian Beast]

I don't know how anyone can complain about a gameplan that absent a stupid pushoff had 28 points on the board against a tough Dline.

Gameplan was not the problem against the Vikings.

The thing is though, it was. Without the push off maybe there is no touchdown first of all.

Secondly, we probably could have scored 40 points on their anemic secondary. Garrett played scared, not even conservative, just plain scared.

You play to win, you don't play not to lose.

Football is also about field position, and when you put your defense in a bad spot, especially with turnovers thats when you start losing games.

There was no reason we should have lost that game or in other game this year.

Favre had 118 yards passing, Peterson was held to 3 yards per carry...They scored 2 touchdowns on offense. One of their scoring drives starting on our 21. The other on our 49.