News: Garrett Explains Why Weeden, Offense Didn’t Take More Down-Field Shots

[Rogerthat12]

Weeden's pick was a stupid decision, no doubt.

The timeout at that point on the field when you weren't sure you were going to score on the first play given you knew it was a run and if you didn't trust your backup's clock management I have no problem with. If you can't trust your defense to keep them from going 66 yards in 40 seconds, then the issue isn't with where you're calling time outs.

Either way, the defense coughed up 17 in that first half. It's not a far cry from being exactly half of the 39 they coughed up, overall.

The pick led to the 7 points as a direct result of the offense.

If Garrett makes the right decision, the defense does not need to be on the field.

That is 10 points on the offense, proper decisions these situations are not a factor.

That is putting an undermanned defense in poor situations.

If you were being honest and not trying to unilaterally blame the defense, you would agree, the second half was where the defense went south.

Those scores do not occur if the offense does not screw up.

 

[superonyx]

having met a few REAL LEADERS you have no concept at all. The one thing all REAL LEADERS never do is LIE to their people.

You seem to be confusing who Jason Garrett is leading into battle each week. He is the leader of the Cowboys players. He isn't lying to his people.in fact saying he is laying at all isn't something that is some concrete fact.

I agree with you that leaders don't lie to there people. Great point...So where is anyone even implying that JG is lying to the players? In fact it has been said in this thread that people who believe JG is sugar coating the problems to the media are confident that he is saying something different to the players.

The players know the media is trying to dig up and create stories. They appreciate a REAL LEADER like JG who doesn't blast them in the media.

Is this that hard?

 

[ConstantReboot]

Problem was that after the INT from Weeden the team lost confidence in their QB and went into a shell.

Once that happened all that Atlanta needed to do was play the run on 1st downs and hang back their linebackers to contain the dink and dunk passes to our RBs.

Playing NOT TO LOSE made us lose. If we wanted to win they should have told Weeden air it out. Pass it on 1st downs using play action and go downfield with the ball. It was stupid for us to be running it on first down all the time in the 2nd half when we know Atlanta was playing the run all the way. Garrett and Linehan needs to grow a set of balls. Stop playing scared and play to win.