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Garrett Explains Why Weeden, Offense Didn’t Take More Down-Field Shots
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...den-offense-didn’t-take-more-down-field-shots
...“You have to understand what their style of defense is,” Garrett said of the Falcons. “They commit a lot of people to the line of scrimmage and then their corners play high. If you can picture Seattle’s corners how they play high and deep. Not many people make a lot of big plays. That’s the style of defense. So they help themselves that way by making it difficult for you to run the football and equally make it challenging for you to make big plays in the passing game. There were some opportunities to throw the ball outside to the outside receivers that we didn’t take full advantage of. To say we should’ve thrown it down the field more, I don’t know that’s accurate.”
When asked why the ball simply wasn’t thrown more to the outside, again Garrett defended his quarterback.
“We’ll evaluate quarterback decision-making but there are opportunities to throw the ball out there,” Garrett said. “He made some different decisions, threw the ball inside and was effective. The guy threw four incompletions the whole game so he did a good job helping us move the football but as much as anything else you got behind the chains a little bit in the second half and weren’t able to get back on track like we needed to convert those third downs.”
Third-down efficiency was a problem for the Cowboys all day, converting just one of six attempts. Meanwhile the Falcons were 9-14 on third-down attempts...
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...den-offense-didn’t-take-more-down-field-shots
...“You have to understand what their style of defense is,” Garrett said of the Falcons. “They commit a lot of people to the line of scrimmage and then their corners play high. If you can picture Seattle’s corners how they play high and deep. Not many people make a lot of big plays. That’s the style of defense. So they help themselves that way by making it difficult for you to run the football and equally make it challenging for you to make big plays in the passing game. There were some opportunities to throw the ball outside to the outside receivers that we didn’t take full advantage of. To say we should’ve thrown it down the field more, I don’t know that’s accurate.”
When asked why the ball simply wasn’t thrown more to the outside, again Garrett defended his quarterback.
“We’ll evaluate quarterback decision-making but there are opportunities to throw the ball out there,” Garrett said. “He made some different decisions, threw the ball inside and was effective. The guy threw four incompletions the whole game so he did a good job helping us move the football but as much as anything else you got behind the chains a little bit in the second half and weren’t able to get back on track like we needed to convert those third downs.”
Third-down efficiency was a problem for the Cowboys all day, converting just one of six attempts. Meanwhile the Falcons were 9-14 on third-down attempts...
