Garrett just said Romo checked out of a run on the INT

[DejectedFan1996]

Yikes!

 

[Beast_from_East]

For clairification folks, it is not the empty backfield play that Romo audibled out of.............that is on Garrett.

 

[theebs]

Being serious. Brian has it on his blog.

Cowher was on that CBS sports line show or whatever it's called.

Said Jerry and Stephen are the coaches. They pick the schemes, give out injury reports, call out players and Garrett just goes along with it.

 

[Beast_from_East]

So did Romo audible to all 50 pass plays in the 2nd half?


Garrett is such a spineless loser.

 

[visionary]

Garrett has a lot of balls to throw the guy who has been the reason he has kept his job all these years under the bus. Which is odd because he has had none as a coach.

But at the same time Garrett knows he is coaching his final two games here.

After hearing what cowher said this week I imagine its going to be a long time before he gets mother head coaching job.

Garrett has no integrity after this offseason.

It's all part of the process

Sounds like the Garrett groupies are willing to throw romo under the bus to save their messiah

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Skipping to the end here, but par for the course with this guy. Always deflecting blame.

Even Matt Freaking Mosley asked, "Why can't you as a coach give him a second run play to check into, or just tell him to run it no matter what?" Garrett said something to the effect of, "We'll look at the tape and see what we can improve on going forward."

Not joking, either, he really said that.

What an absolute clown. What a shame Romo's entire career is going down the crapper playing for this chump.

 

[Dale]

Skipping to the end here, but par for the course with this guy. Always deflecting blame.

Even Matt Freaking Mosley asked, "Why can't you as a coach give him a second run play to check into, or just tell him to run it no matter what?" Garrett said something to the effect of, "We'll look at the tape and see what we can improve on going forward."

Not joking, either, he really said that.

What an absolute clown. What a shame Romo's entire career is going down the crapper playing for this chump.

As much as I want to blame Garrett - and believe me, I think he's done some terrible coaching here - I do think the Cowher comment highlights the greater issue, as we all know.

It's rinse and repeat. Garrett will be fired, be replaced by someone else who undermined, and we will sit here for the next few years continuing to complain how our guys aren't prepared to win.

IMO, Garrett isn't the right guy. But will jerry put in a structure that enables the right guy to be found?

 

[NumOneQB]

It's just one play, but Romo gets 100% of the blame here. I wonder how many options Romo gets to audible to at the line? I played college ball and remember audibling to other runs or sides normally.

 

[Beast_from_East]

It's just one play, but Romo gets 100% of the blame here. I wonder how many options Romo gets to audible to at the line? I played college ball and remember audibling to other runs or sides normally.

Yea, what about the other 87 pass plays we ran today....................let me guess, Garrett was not responsible for those either...................atleast Aikman isnt buying this BS, he called out Garrett during the broadcast for inexcusable game management.

Even Aikman thinks Garrett is a loser at this point.

 

[NumOneQB]

Yea, what about the other 87 pass plays we ran today....................let me guess, Garrett was not responsible for those either...................atleast Aikman isnt buying this BS, he called out Garrett during the broadcast for inexcusable game management.

Even Aikman thinks Garrett is a loser at this point.

I'm definitely not defending Teflon Tony here. I'm just curious to know how much freedom do they give Romo at the line?

 

[Chocolate Lab]

As much as I want to blame Garrett - and believe me, I think he's done some terrible coaching here - I do think the Cowher comment highlights the greater issue, as we all know.

It's rinse and repeat. Garrett will be fired, be replaced by someone else who undermined, and we will sit here for the next few years continuing to complain how our guys aren't prepared to win.

See, I don't buy this. As big a pain as Jerry may be, I don't believe that Jerry is to blame for stuff like this today. Look at all the historic -- literally historic -- blown leads Garrett has presided over. Jerry wasn't a problem when we got those 24-7 and 23-6 leads, but he's suddenly to blame when we completely collapse to blow those leads at the end? Jerry is to blame for Garrett's check system that allows Romo to pass in that situation? Jerry is to blame for Garrett icing his own kicker or settling for 50-yard field goals in the wind after burning 40 seconds off the clock?

No. Jerry isn't making or forcing those micro-, in-game decisions. Those egregious errors don't come from Jerry doing a radio show or making pizza commercials. They come from terrible weekly preparation and awful game day coaching.

In the end, Jerry is to blame because he's the one who hired his longtime pet project experiment coach. But I don't buy that anyone coaching here would make those same terrible mistakes.

 

[big dog cowboy]

.atleast Aikman isnt buying this BS, he called out Garrett during the broadcast for inexcusable game management.

Even Aikman thinks Garrett is a loser at this point.

Joe Buck said something also. Every show I've watched tonight Garrett has been called out. Jerry can't defend him much longer. In two weeks we might be interviewing stay tuned.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Joe Buck said something also. Every show I've watched tonight Garrett has been called out. Jerry can't defend him much longer. In two weeks we might be interviewing stay tuned.

The day they announce Garrett has been terminated.................I am going to go streaking!!!!!!!

Hope my neighbors dont mind...................LOL

 

[Dale]

See, I don't buy this. As big a pain as Jerry may be, I don't believe that Jerry is to blame for stuff like this today. Look at all the historic -- literally historic -- blown leads Garrett has presided over. Jerry wasn't a problem when we got those 24-7 and 23-6 leads, but he's suddenly to blame when we completely collapse to blow those leads at the end? Jerry is to blame for Garrett's check system that allows Romo to pass in that situation? Jerry is to blame for Garrett icing his own kicker or settling for 50-yard field goals in the wind after burning 40 seconds off the clock?

No. Jerry isn't making or forcing those micro-, in-game decisions. Those egregious errors don't come from Jerry doing a radio show or making pizza commercials. They come from terrible weekly preparation and awful game day coaching.

In the end, Jerry is to blame because he's the one who hired his longtime pet project experiment coach. But I don't buy that anyone coaching here would make those same terrible mistakes.

I think the blown leads are certainly Garrett's to own up, which is why I originally said he's doing a poor job here. But bigger picture, I'm not convinced Jerry is capable of creating a culture that allows for a head coach to thrive.

I'd certainly be shocked if the next coach, whoever it is, posts the kinds of losses -- blown 23 and 24-point leads, icings of kicker, etc -- that Garrett has amassed.

 

[Mr Cowboy]

I'm definitely not defending Teflon Tony here. I'm just curious to know how much freedom do they give Romo at the line?

I'm sure he has plenty of freedom, but when the pesonnel sent in by the coaching staff consists of empty sets, he can't very much audible to a run. I don't want to give Tony a pass, but he can only do what he can with the personnel on the field.

 

[Dale]

What's amazing is that between the three people we supposedly have calling and changing plays -- Callahan, Garrett, Romo -- not one of them has the sense or authority to simply run the ball in those situations. Maybe Jerry does need to be calling plays.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

What's amazing is that between the three people we supposedly have calling and changing plays -- Callahan, Garrett, Romo -- not one of them has the sense or authority to simply run the ball in those situations. Maybe Jerry does need to be calling plays.

Yep, that's what's frustrating. No one (other than Romo, most of the time) takes the blame.

To amend what I said earlier, because I just listened to it again: Mosley asked if Tony can have too many options there, can't you say we're going to run it no matter what? Or is Tony always going to have those options?

And Garrett kind of stammered around and finally said, "We have those options for really challenging and difficult situations... I think he'd be the first to tell you he should have run the ball in that situation."

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Why are you holding the playsheet up to your mouth and what are you calling into Romo's helmet?

 

[Dale]

Yep, that's what's frustrating. No one (other than Romo, most of the time) takes the blame.

To amend what I said earlier, because I just listened to it again: Mosley asked if Tony can have too many options there, can't you say we're going to run it no matter what? Or is Tony always going to have those options?

And Garrett kind of stammered around and finally said, "We have those options for really challenging and difficult situations... I think he'd be the first to tell you he should have run the ball in that situation."

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Why are you holding the playsheet up to your mouth and what are you calling into Romo's helmet?

Yep, that's what's frustrating. No one (other than Romo, most of the time) takes the blame.

To amend what I said earlier, because I just listened to it again: Mosley asked if Tony can have too many options there, can't you say we're going to run it no matter what? Or is Tony always going to have those options?

And Garrett kind of stammered around and finally said, "We have those options for really challenging and difficult situations... I think he'd be the first to tell you he should have run the ball in that situation."

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Why are you holding the playsheet up to your mouth and what are you calling into Romo's helmet?

I think Garrett's biggest failure, outside of his terrible in-game management, has been his inability to use our pieces to create a sound offensive identity.

You look back at what we were in 2007, when we could pound teams away to win games late with Marion Barber, and you look back at those 1990s teams that Garrett was on, and you'd think he'd value the running game. And I'm right there with AdamJT with his thoughts on the running game as a whole in today's league -- I like the notion of being forward-thinking and realizing it's a passing league, using the pass to set up the run in many instances. But games like tonight were precisely where the running game DOES remain relevant in today's league.

But Garrett, or Romo, or Wade Wilson or whoever is running this three-ring circus, has steadily slid toward leaning more and more and more on the passing game and abandoning the run altogether.

It's as if the first two possessions of games are a facade, a spectacle in hopes of tricking the opponent to believe we intend to run so it can open up the pass for the next 50 minutes.

In the end, it's a jumbled mess where we look like we don't know when to go hurry-up, or when to lean on the run, or when to be conservative, or when to be aggressive.

Or maybe that's just it: Garrett simply guesses wrong far, far too often, with no feel for what to actually do.

 

[CyberB0b]

I just saw the press conference on NFLN. I am far from a Garrett fan, but he wasn't throwing Romo under the bus.

The designed pass was a hitch route to Austin, but Matthews came in free and Romo had to side step and threw it off his back foot. The play was supposed to be a really safe throw, but it got disrupted by instant pressure. Romo made a terrible throw. There was no deep safety. If he leads Austin a little bit, it was easily a 20 yard gain.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

In the end, it's a jumbled mess where we look like we don't know when to go hurry-up, or when to lean on the run, or when to be conservative, or when to be aggressive.

Or maybe that's just it: Garrett simply guesses wrong far, far too often, with no feel for what to actually do.

Well I'll still say what I've always said: Whether it be poker playing or floor trading or play calling -- offense or defense -- feel, instinct, whatever you want to call it, has a lot to do with success. That's why some playcallers are better than others even using the exact same playbook. It's part of the overall talent the job requires, along with identifying talent, running the team during the week, managing personalities, and a hundred other things. It's a very complex job and only a few are truly good at it.

And how do you know who has that rare talent? Darwinism -- they prove themselves as they produce and move up through the ranks. Ten years ago, would anyone have been able to identify via resume or alma mater or geography that a Gus Malzahn would be a great offensive coach? No way. But you don't have to hope you can identify that guy a decade in advance, you can let him earn his way up through the ranks through the production he demonstrates. Garrett never had to earn that. He was just a hope and a prayer from the old wildcatter.