Game Planning vs. Execution

[YosemiteSam]

Well, doesn't game planning help you execute? Is that not the purpose of gamemplanning?

No, they are different.

Game planning is preparing to take advantage of certain situations.

Execution is a whole other beast. Just because you call the right play, doesn't mean you will execute it perfectly.

I would describe it like this. Game planning is concentrating before the game, Execution is concentrating during the game.

 

[TheCount]

Running the right play and executing the play are two different things. You can have the perfect play call, but if you don't execute the play properly it doesn't work. On the other hand you can have a poor play call, but if the play is executed properly it still has a chance to work.

Game planning is not the key in whether the play is executed the way it is intended, it's just a matter of whether the team has planned ahead in an effort to find the ideal plays to run against certain teams in certain situations.

The fact is, we should be able to convert a 3rd and 1 regardless of game planning, or pass block on a straight drop back regardless of game planning.

Ding! We have a winner!

 

[theebs]

Exactly, Mike. Say they show a certain defense that we know will stop a certain play. Say they have a run blitz on... Normally Tony would audible out of that into another play with a better chance of success. In preseason when we don't want to show anything, we might just stay in that play. Then when they have more people than we can block, it looks terrible and people say our starters suck, etc.

Now we did need to block and tackle better than we did the other day, and we shouldn't be missing calls like Felix did. No doubt about that. But a lot of this stuff would look different with just one or two big plays, plays that could come from a mismatch we see on film and actually take advantage of in a real game.

this is it exactly. I think that is where some of the frustration came from also. I think some of the guys like romo and crayton wanted to run something to back them off and they didnt.

 

[Venger]

You don't play your hand in preseason.

You don't get your prime time QB punded because you don't block in preseason. Oh wait, apparently we do.

You may think it's not playing a hand, but when Romo is in the pocket, ALL of our chips are on the table buddy.

Nobody is pissed because we aren't trying to win. People are pissed because we don't look like we can even play. You still need to do things like not get your QB killed in the preseason.

If we play our starters this week, it is a tacit admission that even the organization sees something badly wrong in what has shown up on the field in these preseason games.

 

[Stautner]

You don't get your prime time QB punded because you don't block in preseason. Oh wait, apparently we do.

You may think it's not playing a hand, but when Romo is in the pocket, ALL of our chips are on the table buddy.

Nobody is pissed because we aren't trying to win. People are pissed because we don't look like we can even play. You still need to do things like not get your QB killed in the preseason.

If we play our starters this week, it is a tacit admission that even the organization sees something badly wrong in what has shown up on the field in these preseason games.

Good post. As much as some seem to think we have a bunch of super secret plays to guard against prying eyes, the fact is that the majority of all plays in any game are standard plays that every team runs, and we aren't even executing those. Basic blocking and basic execution on basic plays has been the problem, not that we aren't pulling out the entire playbook.