Garrett explains short kickoff from Bailey in third quarter

[fanfromvirginia]

But even the kickoffs after the squib kick were going out of the end zone. Did the wind get that bad for such a short period of time?

Maybe. You know that's the correct answer, right?

This isn't an episode of Columbo. JG likely overthought (as someone noted above) the wind as an issue and now you and others are overthinking his response.

 

[theogt]

Horrible excuse. Just say it was a dumb choice and move on. Garrett has become the anti-accountability.

This.

 

[theogt]

Lol. You guys wanted an explanation only so you'd have something to complain about, apparently.

The proper explanation would have come with a mea culpa rather than throwing one if the best players on the team under the bus.

 

[RastaRocket]

Aaaaa isnt cowboys stadium indoors.......? Even with the roof open how much of a breeze did Garrett think woud work......indoors. ............ riiight

Doors open on both endzone sides. There was actually wind yesterday. I remember the commentators mentioning the wind. I thought the kick was stupid as well but I don't think his reasoning was a bunch of BS.

 

[Longboysfan]

Note to JG: Scratch that idea out of the memory bank.

 

[sacase]

Just another example of him trying to get to cute with things, like that QB keeper on 3 and short. Just play football man!

 

[FiveRings]

Never been to a game with the roof open, so can a wind on the field really be that significant?

 

[StanleySpadowski]

Just another example of him trying to get to cute with things, like that QB keeper on 3 and short. Just play football man!

Success doesn't make a call good or bad. On that 3rd and short play, if Parnell puts even a finger on Harrison, Romo is still running. Great play call, terrible execution.

 

[burmafrd]

what is the point of an indoor stadium if you allow the elements to impact the game? Close the doors dummies!

 

[kmd24]

The critics in this thread are missing some information, but what else is new?

I agree with Garrett. The call was fine, the execution was bad.

 

[Tommy]

Just another example of him trying to get to cute with things, like that QB keeper on 3 and short. Just play football man!

It's only a bad call when it doesn't work. If someone blocks Harrison it looked like he may have had room to run. I thought the previous short yardage play where Pitt knew they were going to run Murray got stuffed. I liked the call. It just didn't work that time.

 

[Mr Cowboy]

Good thing the game winning kick was from so close, or that gale force wind may have stopped the kick dead in its track!

 

[CowboyGil]

We won, right? Just checking. 5 out of 6. 3-0 in December. Correct? O.K.

 

[rcaldw]

Lol. You guys wanted an explanation only so you'd have something to complain about, apparently.

I have to admit, my tolerance for the complaining is running on empty.

 

[kmd24]

Good thing the game winning kick was from so close, or that gale force wind may have stopped the kick dead in its track!

The wind was at Bailey's back for the game winner. Incidentally, the wind in that direction was part of the reason we were considering a 62-yard FG at the end of the game. Must have been significant since Bailey's range is normally in the 53-55 yard range. Go back and look at the 50-yarder. It cleared the crossbar with plenty of room to spare.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Bailey was kicking it through the endzone the whole game, that kick made absolutely no sense at all.

This.

 

[kmd24]

Bailey was kicking it through the endzone the whole game, that kick made absolutely no sense at all.

Bailey only kicked to that endzone twice. The first kick occurred after Witten's TD, and the kick was a low line drive that bounced into the front of the endzone and over Rainey's head. The second was the squib kick, which presumably was intended to be similar to the earlier kickoff in that direction.

Suisham kicked off against the wind once, in the fourth quarter. It was the only kick that Harris returned, and he fielded it about 5 yards deep in the endzone. All of Suisham's kicks in the other direction went to the back of or out of the endzone.

 

[WV Cowboy]

I have to admit, my tolerance for the complaining is running on empty.

I am not really a complainer, but if there is something to complain about I understand some will complain.

And that's fine.

Not every decision works the way you want it to. Nobody is perfect so there will always be disagreements with what the coach did.

Garrett is not perfect, but we have won 5 out of 6 NFL games, that is not easy to do.

Running the QB bootleg was a good call that didn't work out, same with the idea of the squib kick. I would have kicked it deep but I understand his thinking. It just didn't work out the way they planned.

Complaining about bad decisions is ok, but those were not.

If these guys that are complaining want to be taken seriously, .. then stop complaining about every little thing.

 

[Idgit]

The proper explanation would have come with a mea culpa rather than throwing one if the best players on the team under the bus.

Oh, well then you guys should have been explicit and specified you were looking for a 'proper' explanation. Maybe someone in the Dallas media will ask for that one tomorrow.

What you got today was the explicit rationale for the call and the explanation for why it didn't work. You don't have to like the rationale (I don't, for the record. I think it was a minor mistake). I have zero problem with the head coach saying they didn't execute the play properly, since he also explained why he thought that.

We're getting more and more resourceful, though, when it comes to finding busses in Dallas these days. Time was, when you didn't need a bus necessarily to explain why a single play in a hugely positive game was unsuccessful. Now every criticism comes with its own bus driver, apparently. Our fan dollars hard at work!

 

[LeonDixson]

Bailey only kicked to that endzone twice. The first kick occurred after Witten's TD, and the kick was a low line drive that bounced into the front of the endzone and over Rainey's head. The second was the squib kick, which presumably was intended to be similar to the earlier kickoff in that direction.

Suisham kicked off against the wind once, in the fourth quarter. It was the only kick that Harris returned, and he fielded it about 5 yards deep in the endzone. All of Suisham's kicks in the other direction went to the back of or out of the endzone.

Get out of here with that logical explanation. The facts are inconvenient!