I Loved the Playcalling

[ConstantReboot]

Is it me but it seems that we went with a lot of deep routes alot and we never let off the gas peddle once we scored?

Surely if Garrett called the plays he would have kept safe and ran the ball a lot more times. I really like that we did quite of play-action and rollouts. If this is an indication of what to expect from Moore than I'm all smiles.

But yet again its only pre-season and we might end up going back to the same ole' predictable offense Garrett is fond of running.

 

[Melonfeud]

That Blocked punt&T.D. by #48 pretty much broadsided the texans mast& mainsails crashing down on top of them,,,relentless momentum

 

[Eanwen]

Is it me but it seems that we went with a lot of deep routes alot and we never let off the gas peddle once we scored?

Surely if Garrett called the plays he would have kept safe and ran the ball a lot more times. I really like that we did quite of play-action and rollouts. If this is an indication of what to expect from Moore than I'm all smiles.

But yet again its only pre-season and we might end up going back to the same ole' predictable offense Garrett is fond of running.

I don't know if I liked the play calling as much as you did but I did like to see both Dak and Cooper being aggressive throwing the ball deep, not just this game but in all three games. Dak has at least tried the deep ball in 2/3 games and I think Cooper has as well.

 

[OUCowboy]

Is it me but it seems that we went with a lot of deep routes alot and we never let off the gas peddle once we scored?

Surely if Garrett called the plays he would have kept safe and ran the ball a lot more times. I really like that we did quite of play-action and rollouts. If this is an indication of what to expect from Moore than I'm all smiles.

But yet again its only pre-season and we might end up going back to the same ole' predictable offense Garrett is fond of running.

The thing that troubles me is how consistent they were in running on first down. I watched most of the first half and I am not sure if they ever tried to throw on first down. If they did, it was very little. That just seems to be playing right into the defenses hands. Our running game is going to be great to good,ddepending on if Zeke comes back and just how good Pollard turns out to be, but to insist on running on every first down and never keep the defense guessing is naive. I was hoping Kellen Moore would be a little more unpredictable. Maybe that will change when the games are for real.

 

[xwalker]

Is it me but it seems that we went with a lot of deep routes alot and we never let off the gas peddle once we scored?

Surely if Garrett called the plays he would have kept safe and ran the ball a lot more times. I really like that we did quite of play-action and rollouts. If this is an indication of what to expect from Moore than I'm all smiles.

But yet again its only pre-season and we might end up going back to the same ole' predictable offense Garrett is fond of running.

The play design on the play with 3:34 remaining in the 1st was awesome.

It was the screen pass to Pollard that looked like a 14 yard TD but was called back due to a block in the back.

La'el stepped back and intentionally let the pass rusher lose to the inside. Dak lofted the ball over the pass rushers head to Pollard and he had all the blocker out front leading the way.

This was a modification of the play last week that resulted in a sack. They moved the TE to the other side to get the extra defender out of that space.

A great feature of the play design is that most of the blockers could see Pollard catching the ball which minimizes the chance of them getting an illegal man downfield penalty.

 

[Parcells4Life]

The ball was going down the field a lot! Even though Rush doesn’t have the most accurate arm downfield it was obvious he’s been coached to push it. Great to see!

 

[jazzcat22]

Broaddus wrote in his Scout's Eye article about they play design of the moving pocket where Dak hit Austin for a good gain and play. That is one of those wrinkles we will see more of. He said Austin has a way to get lost in the defenses with plays like that causing confusion.

To me this is why Austin, as well as Cobb will be so much better than Beasley. Even Wilson and Smith can get in those type of plays as well.

 

[Runwildboys]

Broaddus wrote in his Scout's Eye article about they play design of the moving pocket where Dak hit Austin for a good gain and play. That is one of those wrinkles we will see more of. He said Austin has a way to get lost in the defenses with plays like that causing confusion.

To me this is why Austin, as well as Cobb will be so much better than Beasley. Even Wilson and Smith can get in those type of plays as well.

I was sitting with a Bills fan last night, who thinks Beasley's gonna tear it up for them. lol

 

[Parcells4Life]

Hopefully this year if Philly is on their 5th corner by week 7 we actually challenge them. One of the most frustrating things in recent years has been teams signing street FAs the week of the game and Dallas continuing with a dink and dunk attack.

PUSH THE BALL!

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

Week one, week one, where art thou week one?

WE READY.....

 

[jazzcat22]

I was sitting with a Bills fan last night, who thinks Beasley's gonna tear it up for them. lol

Is it that cold in Buffalo already to get brain freeze. LOL.
Not sure you are in Buffalo, but had to say that if he had brain freeze already.

 

[Runwildboys]

Is it that cold in Buffalo already to get brain freeze. LOL.
Not sure you are in Buffalo, but had to say that if he had brain freeze already.

I'm in CT, and he was only halfway through his first beer, but he's a Bills fan and I felt bad for him....so I let him believe it until he was three quarters of the way through his beer.

 

[Dre11]

Is it me but it seems that we went with a lot of deep routes alot and we never let off the gas peddle once we scored?

Surely if Garrett called the plays he would have kept safe and ran the ball a lot more times. I really like that we did quite of play-action and rollouts. If this is an indication of what to expect from Moore than I'm all smiles.

But yet again its only pre-season and we might end up going back to the same ole' predictable offense Garrett is fond of running.

Lol....its you.. They ran a ton on first down, ran comebacks and stops. The offense didn't look any different just that the executed the plays...lol

 

[doomsday9084]

Not worth its own thread but I'll put it here.

Teams use film on each other built up over weeks or perhaps months to figure out trends and tendencies. With the Cowboys, we were so predictable that you could go back years and get the same formations and concepts. Teams knew what we were doing before the snap.

With a completely new offense, the first few weeks will be hell on opposing defenses. They will have no film to go over, no tendencies to game plan against, etc. This will force them to either gamble and hope they don't blitz into draw plays, run short one deep zones against deep passes, etc. or to just play conservative base defenses.

I think this means two things:
- Our offense should start out hot
- After several weeks, teams will adjust and Moore will face different schemes built to stop his offense. Say week 6 or so. The offense may hit a wall then and force the coordinator to counter adjust.

 

[Runwildboys]

Not worth its own thread but I'll put it here.

Teams use film on each other built up over weeks or perhaps months to figure out trends and tendencies. With the Cowboys, we were so predictable that you could go back years and get the same formations and concepts. Teams knew what we were doing before the snap.

With a completely new offense, the first few weeks will be hell on opposing defenses. They will have no film to go over, no tendencies to game plan against, etc. This will force them to either gamble and hope they don't blitz into draw plays, run short one deep zones against deep passes, etc. or to just play conservative base defenses.

I think this means two things:
- Our offense should start out hot
- After several weeks, teams will adjust and Moore will face different schemes built to stop his offense. Say week 6 or so. The offense may hit a wall then and force the coordinator to counter adjust.

If Moore is truly intelligent, he'll plan on that, and have different looks ready to go every 5 or 6 weeks, or simply run different plays from the same formations.

 

[jazzcat22]

If Moore is truly intelligent, he'll plan on that, and have different looks ready to go every 5 or 6 weeks, or simply run different plays from the same formations.

That is one of his new wrinkles, but also.
That is what I read, and they did that in the game against the Rams.
On 2 straight completions to Devin Smith. Same play, same results for decent gains and 1st downs, ran out of a different formation.

So it can work both ways, same results. Keep them guessing.

 

[doomsday9084]

If Moore is truly intelligent, he'll plan on that, and have different looks ready to go every 5 or 6 weeks, or simply run different plays from the same formations.

You would think. It seems obvious to most of us that you should disguise the play as much as possible. Linehan never figured that out though. I have certainly never played NFL football. Is there something I don't understand that would prevent a team from having 10-20 plays from the same formation?

 

[DuncanIso]

I don't know if I liked the play calling as much as you did but I did like to see both Dak and Cooper being aggressive throwing the ball deep, not just this game but in all three games. Dak has at least tried the deep ball in 2/3 games and I think Cooper has as well.

I was surprised at how well Rush played. He was actually hitting some of his longer throws.

 

[jazzcat22]

You would think. It seems obvious to most of us that you should disguise the play as much as possible. Linehan never figured that out though. I have certainly never played NFL football. Is there something I don't understand that would prevent a team from having 10-20 plays from the same formation?

Dallas from the 90's had basically 4 running plays out of different formations though. But every one knew it was going to be some version of the lead draw. But they were so good at it, no one could stop in. Well, they did, but the success rate was not good.

 

[jazzcat22]

I was surprised at how well Rush played. He was actually hitting some of his longer throws.

I was too, he actually looked like an NFL QB. But even White looked better at times too.