Garrett Addresses Clock Management On Final Scoring Drive vs. Packers

[Diehardblues]

There are many ways to score a TD. Why pick one of the lowest percentage plays?

You can try to ignore the clock shouldn't be a factor but that would be silly. Shoot, the coaches were worried about the clock, hence the conservative, ground and pound drive with nothing but quick dump off passes. They wanted to chew up clock.

And right when they had run this drive to perfection, they go full blown moron and call one of the lowest percentage passes you could call that has a high probability of not being complete and giving the Packers a needed free timeout.

It's mind numbing people are justifying that play call, at that point in the game, at that spot on the field, with the circumstances as they were.

The only narrative at play here is people like yourself who just can't criticize Garrett. When a team loses, the blame for a loss can lie with many people. In this case, no one is excusing the defense. They failed. But the offense had a chance to protect the defense and they didn't because the coaches, after running a pretty picture perfect drive, went full blown knucklehead and called a low percentage pass play that actually helped the Packers.

PS - Am I misreading your post above? They only needed a FG to tie and force OT. So they didn't have to score a TD.

I'm not justifying that play call , I'm just not blaming the loss on it.

It's nickpicking . We scored the potential game winning TD which was the objective and consumed as much time off the clock as we could.

 

[Stash]

So what do we even pay the defense for? What do we pay Maranelli for if we keep making excuses for this defense? It's to the point now we are upset he scored too fast so we should risk not scoring at all then score.

There are multiple components to football, and a football team. They work in tandem, not independent of one another.

Nobody is absolving the defense of blame. And they have said that repeatedly. People just refuse to hear it.

But their issues are clear and obvious. They're just not playing well. Everyone knows that. Everyone apparently, except the guys that can actually do something about it to limit their exposure any way that they can.

Good football coaches would know this basic stuff. This staff doesn't.

 

[SultanOfSix]

they go full blown moron and call one of...

 

[aria]

And what if you don't scare? Garrett is a moron would be all over this site.

Exactly. Obviously what happened wasn't ideal but you don't leave points on the board. Too many other variables (ie penalties, fumbles, getting stuffed, etc) could lose the game.

 

[Sydla]

You are trying to score. What if we ran on 2nd down and Zeke scores? We have even less time on the clock. Go out there and score. I don't care how you do it. Defense needs to make stops.

Then that's just some bad luck attached to a nice play. If you run the ball and Elliott scores and then Rodgers runs down the field and scores like he did, that's just how the cookie crumbles.

But when you purposely call a low percentage play that has a higher than average probability of not working, that's on you for making a dumb call.

And why is it that people always try to make this an either/or situation when it comes to blame after losses? No one is saying the defense didn't fail. It seems to be a universal consensus that the defense was trash. But some of you just leave it at that, and I have no idea why. Maybe because criticizing the play calling is more of a criticism of Garrett?

Regardless, that loss falls on a porous defense and a coaching staff that made a really stupid play call with a 1:20 left in the game.

 

[Sydla]

Our issues are much greater than any shortcoming we have in coaching.

Our defense has given up14 scores in their last 18 possessions .

Even when we control the clock taking 8 or 9 minutes to score our opponent only needs a minute or two.

It's really silly attempting to dissect our offense any further. Fix a defense that can make stops when the game is on the line and we start winning more and going deeper in playoffs .

Looking for a coaching staff to call a perfect game on offense to offset that is ridiculous.

I am not asking for a coaching staff to call a perfect game.

I am just hoping for a coaching staff to not make tactical mistakes in close games. I don't think it's much to ask our coaching staff to have some situational awareness in that game knowing Rodgers can move down the field in a minute and that calling a fade pass, which is a low percentage pass play to begin with, is a smart move at that point in the game.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Yeah, I thinks there's a high probability he woukd have. I think JG catches a lot more flak then he deserves. It's extremely difficult to plan these things to a T. Only here does a coach get criticized for getting a TD, unless the blame goes to Dak which I wouldn't agree with either.

If JG called running plays that got stopped he would be criticized for not doing more with the game on the line. He can only do so much. If you want to blame the defense have at it but to blame JG for scoring a needed TD with a little over a minute left is ridiculous.

He does....but I talk to other fans...everyone hates their head coach lol..Packers fans want McCarthy out of there.

 

[MRV52]

Yeah, I thinks there's a high probability he woukd have. I think JG catches a lot more flak then he deserves. It's extremely difficult to plan these things to a T. Only here does a coach get criticized for getting a TD, unless the blame goes to Dak which I wouldn't agree with either.

If JG called running plays that got stopped he would be criticized for not doing more with the game on the line. He can only do so much. If you want to blame the defense have at it but to blame JG for scoring a needed TD with a little over a minute left is ridiculous.

He is not getting criticized for the TD. It's running a pass play that if you did not run it, wastes GB's last timeout and they would have less time to at least stop them from getting a TD.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

There are multiple components to football, and a football team. They work in tandem, not independent of one another.

Nobody is absolving the defense of blame. And they have said that repeatedly. People just refuse to hear it.

But their issues are clear and obvious. They're just not playing well. Everyone knows that. Everyone apparently, except the guys that can actually do something about it to limit their exposure any way that they can.

Good football coaches would know this basic stuff. This staff doesn't.

They all work in tandem yet Garrett is the only one getting blame lol.....despite us not knowing of Dak audibled out of a run or if it was Linehans call.....

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Then that's just some bad luck attached to a nice play. If you run the ball and Elliott scores and then Rodgers runs down the field and scores like he did, that's just how the cookie crumbles.

But when you purposely call a low percentage play that has a higher than average probability of not working, that's on you for making a dumb call.

And why is it that people always try to make this an either/or situation when it comes to blame after losses? No one is saying the defense didn't fail. It seems to be a universal consensus that the defense was trash. But some of you just leave it at that, and I have no idea why. Maybe because criticizing the play calling is more of a criticism of Garrett?

Regardless, that loss falls on a porous defense and a coaching staff that made a really stupid play call with a 1:20 left in the game.

So Dak scores early and that's just not how the cookie crumbles?

 

[Sydla]

So Garrett called that fade? Or was it Linehan? Or did Dak check out of a run?

Linehan apparently called a RPO. Based on the formation, Dak opted to a pass.

Linehan should have never called a RPO that had an option to throw a low percentage pass play. Garrett is the head coach and a former OC himself. He has the authority to tell Linehan to pull his head from his butt.

 

[Sydla]

I'm not justifying that play call , I'm just not blaming the loss on it.

It's nickpicking . We scored the potential game winning TD which was the objective and consumed as much time off the clock as we could.

It's not the only reason we lost.

But it was clearly a factor. And no, we could have ran more time off the clock if we didn't opt for a stupid, low percentage pass that has a high probability of being incomplete.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Exactly. Obviously what happened wasn't ideal but you don't leave points on the board. Too many other variables (ie penalties, fumbles, getting stuffed, etc) could lose the game.

At that point....I didn't have enough faith in us to score effortlessly.....If the score was there I'd take it. Of course this is different if we are losing by 3 or less points.....but we weren't.

 

[aria]

He does....but I talk to other fans...everyone hates their head coach lol..Packers fans want McCarthy out of there.

True. I've stated many times here how over rated I think McCarthy is.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Linehan apparently called a RPO. Based on the formation, Dak opted to a pass.

Linehan should have never called a RPO that had an option to throw a low percentage pass play. Garrett is the head coach and a former OC himself. He has the authority to tell Linehan to pull his head from his butt.

So ultimately it's Dak faults then lol....you blame the coaches for giving Dak options? A bit unfair. For the record, I don't blame any of them. I blame solely Maranelli. Im not scapegoating the offensive line or Garrett in favor of Maranelli anymore.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

True. I've stated many times here how over rated I think McCarthy is.

He is but you can't say that here.....guys think Garrett is the worst coach in history.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Linehan apparently called a RPO. Based on the formation, Dak opted to a pass.

Linehan should have never called a RPO that had an option to throw a low percentage pass play. Garrett is the head coach and a former OC himself. He has the authority to tell Linehan to pull his head from his butt.

Don't know why we need a head coach. It's never his fault. Everybody else takes the blame.

 

[aria]

He is not getting criticized for the TD. It's running a pass play that if you did not run it, wastes GB's last timeout and they would have less time to at least stop them from getting a TD.

Ok, but that's not what happened nor is it why we lost the game. I can sit here and say "what if he runs a pass play and Dak decides to run it into the end zone instead". Is it any different then if a running play was called and Zeke scored?

 

[Stash]

They all work in tandem yet Garrett is the only one getting blame lol.....despite us not knowing of Dak audibled out of a run or if it was Linehans call.....

Who's the head coach?

Where should the buck ultimately stop? "Lol" that fact.

It doesn't matter who audibles out of that call. The mistake is allowing the option to still be there.

Down, distance, time of game dicatates what you do there, not any look the defense gives you.

They made the same mistake in week one and have done absolutely nothing to fix it. The definition of insanity.

 

[Romo_To_Dez]

So Garrett called that fade? Or was it Linehan? Or did Dak check out of a run?

Garrett is the head coach, even through getting different OCs. So he will never be blame free for the seasons of the team having poor clock management in games. Neither Romo nor Dak should get the full blame, while Garrett escapes away blame free for the Cowboys problems.