How The Cowboys Spent Weeks Setting Up Ezekiel Elliott's 60-Yard TD Run

[waving monkey]

First off I’d like to apologize for a little bit of redundancy. By the time you are reading this, many of you will have read Bob Sturm’s "Decoding Linehan" series for this week which covers much of the same ground. I still have my own things to say about this, however, and I also don’t want to redo the work I did making these pictures so I’m going forward with my article.

Rather than looking at a specific player, let's show how the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff made the Ezekiel Elliott dagger in the third quarter of Sunday’s game happen. It was a tremendous bit of strategic, long-term thinking that goes to show that play-calling isn’t just about one game. But I will remind you, at the end, that football very much is. That is to say, with only 16 games on the season, the ability to pull the rug out from under your opponent and gain a victory is much much bigger than it is in other sports where the length of season and, particularly of a typical playoff series make these moments much less impactful and tend to lose them in simple statistical likelihoods.

So, what was the set up?

link/http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2016...ks-setting-up-ezekiel-elliotts-60-yard-td-run

 

[Eanwen]

I heard Dak talk about this play; I wondered what he meant when he said the Bengals were sending their ends up the field every play.

As a sidenote I read that article where the 49ers play was broken down. That seems so egregious it made me doubt Dak as