Hard to win when your QB accounts for around 90% of all offensive yardage.

[Red Dragon]

Romo threw for 506 passing yards. The Cowboys running game only got 52 yards.

Disregarding the yardage lost on sacks, that means Romo accounted for around 90% of all the Cowboys' offensive yardage.


See a problem?


To put that ratio in perspective, it would be almost as if a quarterback threw for 300 yards, but his running game only rushed for only 30 yards.

Or if a quarterback threw for 200 yards, but his running game only rushed for only 20 yards. You get the picture?


It is very difficult to win when your quarterback is facing a lopsided ratio of his offense only getting around one yard on the ground for every ten passing yards he gains through the air.



To win, you almost always need two out of the following three things: A good quarterback, a good running game, and a good defense. In the Broncos game, only one out of those three things really showed up for the Cowboys.

 

[CowboyStar88]

The run game started to look like crap and it was obvious that they needed to play keep up with Manning. Also down 15 how are you going to commit to the run game? I agree with you but I don't think Murray is the back that can do the things you want in the run game he has a lot of warts. But again when down 15 and playing against that team and the last few running plays looked terrible and seeing their defense just sucking wind trying to cover our WRs it made sense.

 

[Red Dragon]

The run game started to look like crap and it was obvious that they needed to play keep up with Manning. Also down 15 how are you going to commit to the run game? I agree with you but I don't think Murray is the back that can do the things you want in the run game he has a lot of warts. But again when down 15 and playing against that team and the last few running plays looked terrible and seeing their defense just sucking wind trying to cover our WRs it made sense.

For clarification, I agree that there's no point in sticking to the running game if the running game isn't working.

It's just that the running game needs to work. 5 yards per carry or more would have been really nice in this game.

 

[CowboyStar88]

For clarification, I agree that there's no point in sticking to the running game if the running game isn't working.

It's just that the running game needs to work. 5 yards per carry or more would have been really nice in this game.

I just don't think it would've mattered. It would've Forced manning to score quickly like he did and force us to not make a mistake and sustain a bunch of long plays. Where it would've worked is if the defense actually forced some 3 and outs and allowed Dallas to establish the run game again. I think Murray is an impatient runner and just lacks speed and Balance to ever be considered a real workhorse. I would call up the saints and ask about Ingram. He is just stuck in a system that doesn't work for him and in a backfield with a bunch of other backs.

 

[Prossman]

It was a shootout game but there were time ( like at the end of the game) Where we needed to calm down and play a more balanced game. Hindsight is 20/20 . We couldn't do anything with their passing game but they couldn't do anything with ours either. We were eating their lunch threw the air, so I understand why we kept throwing.

 

[Ren]

To run the ball you have have to actually run it, 13 running plays (might have audibled out of a ton but that's besides the point) isn't enough to get any kind of balance on offense. You can't expect the running game to produce if you are not willing to give it a chance to produce

 

[Nightman]

Romo threw for 506 passing yards. The Cowboys running game only got 52 yards.

Disregarding the yardage lost on sacks, that means Romo accounted for around 90% of all the Cowboys' offensive yardage.


See a problem?


To put that ratio in perspective, it would be almost as if a quarterback threw for 300 yards, but his running game only rushed for only 30 yards.

Or if a quarterback threw for 200 yards, but his running game only rushed for only 20 yards. You get the picture?


It is very difficult to win when your quarterback is facing a lopsided ratio of his offense only getting around one yard on the ground for every ten passing yards he gains through the air.



To win, you almost always need two out of the following three things: A good quarterback, a good running game, and a good defense. In the Broncos game, only one out of those three things really showed up for the Cowboys.

The offense was not the problem. You said it yourself. They got over 500 yards and 48 pts. You'd be stupid to run if you are getting 20 yards per completion. Jeesh.

 

[BAT]

Romo threw for 506 passing yards. The Cowboys running game only got 52 yards.

Disregarding the yardage lost on sacks, that means Romo accounted for around 90% of all the Cowboys' offensive yardage.


See a problem?


To put that ratio in perspective, it would be almost as if a quarterback threw for 300 yards, but his running game only rushed for only 30 yards.

Or if a quarterback threw for 200 yards, but his running game only rushed for only 20 yards. You get the picture?


It is very difficult to win when your quarterback is facing a lopsided ratio of his offense only getting around one yard on the ground for every ten passing yards he gains through the air.



To win, you almost always need two out of the following three things: A good quarterback, a good running game, and a good defense. In the Broncos game, only one out of those three things really showed up for the Cowboys.

Should not be hard to win if your QB scores 48 pts. Slice the salami all you want but it's still salami. Balance for the sake of balance is silly.

Take what the opposing D is giving you, and the Bronco's secondary was in a very giving mood.

 

[Red Dragon]

Running plays that gained 5+ yards a carry during the Cowboys' last offensive possession, with still over two minutes to go, would have been enormously useful.

Burn the clock and move the ball downfield precisely when the Broncos would be anticipate a passing attack.

 

[Idgit]

Why is throwing a lot a problem if you're successful throwing it? I'd do this every week, if I could. Of course, it would help if we could also stop the other guys from throwing just as well as we do.

 

[CowboyStar88]

Running plays that gained 5+ yards a carry during the Cowboys' last offensive possession, with still over two minutes to go, would have been enormously useful.

Burn the clock and move the ball downfield precisely when the Broncos would be anticipate a passing attack.

Agreed however the bigger problem was the big play that was taken away by penalty. That killed that drive

 

[ftghb]

Running plays that gained 5+ yards a carry during the Cowboys' last offensive possession, with still over two minutes to go, would have been enormously useful.

Burn the clock and move the ball downfield precisely when the Broncos would be anticipate a passing attack.

believe it or not the broncos played 7 up on the line a number of times to stop the underneath stuff and the running game. By the philosophy of "taking what the defense gives you" JG loves so much, romo and co did a good job of just identifying the 1 on 1s downfield and executing the pass plays. Go back to that almost-3rd dez touchdown in the 4th that gave them the 48-41 lead: on 3rd and 6, they played press-man with 7 in the box. They actually doubled on BEASLEY in the flat and left dez 1 on 1 with DRC 50 yards downfield.

Unless you want the receivers to just go down and not try to score, there's not much more the cowboys did wrong there.

 

[Sarge]

For clarification, I agree that there's no point in sticking to the running game if the running game isn't working.

It's just that the running game needs to work. 5 yards per carry or more would have been really nice in this game.

We were getting 4 yard per carry (Murray had 40 yards on 10 carries) and they abandoned ship.

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

We were getting 4 yard per carry (Murray had 40 yards on 10 carries) and they abandoned ship.

People are entitled to their opinions I suppose, but knocking Murray's play this season is a fairly poor one in my own opinion. That guy is playing with purpose this season.

Having said that, this is one of the few times that I am in agreement with abandoning the running game. Being aggressive through the air was the only chance they had of winning this game and if I am being honest they came closer than I ever imagined coming in.

What Manning is doing with the football this season is just amazing. I hate it that he shredded Dallas like he did, but this is what he has done against every team he has played. People will talk about what he is doing right now for a long time.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

We should have ran the ball once when we were up 14-7 and had the ball on the Broncos 8 yard line. That was a gaffe. People bag on Tyron for the false start, but we didn't help matters by not even showing run (and we were running the ball well).

But, it's hard for me to blame the lack of run here. We threw for over 500 yards of offense. We got into trouble after the Dez fumble because we lost the lead and were playing catchup

The reason why we couldn't run the ball was simply due to the pass defense being so awful. It's hard to give Garrett and Co. the benefit of the doubt because they've refused to run the ball before with leads. But, I think just about any team would have stopped running the ball had their defense been so porous like ours.





YR

 

[visionary]

Romo threw for 506 passing yards. The Cowboys running game only got 52 yards.

Disregarding the yardage lost on sacks, that means Romo accounted for around 90% of all the Cowboys' offensive yardage.


See a problem?


To put that ratio in perspective, it would be almost as if a quarterback threw for 300 yards, but his running game only rushed for only 30 yards.

Or if a quarterback threw for 200 yards, but his running game only rushed for only 20 yards. You get the picture?


It is very difficult to win when your quarterback is facing a lopsided ratio of his offense only getting around one yard on the ground for every ten passing yards he gains through the air.



To win, you almost always need two out of the following three things: A good quarterback, a good running game, and a good defense. In the Broncos game, only one out of those three things really showed up for the Cowboys.

Nice post
I agree with you
We need a real running game and a couple of impact DL and at least one more good LB to make this defense work

 

[Denim Chicken]

I agree in a normal game a balanced attack is best, but yesterday's game against that Bronco's offensive--with no capability for our D to stop them-- was not normal and the Cowboys offensive game plan was the right one. If our D makes a couple of stops we win that game. I don't think they even punted once.