I Loved the Playcalling

[cern]

as long as we don't get called for holding every other play we will be great

lmao.

 

[cern]

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

is that grammatically a short "e" or a long "e"? i'm thinking the long version.

 

[ItzKelz]

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.

Why would you think that? As an OC JG was known for attacking defenses and not being safe. Its the reason we went to a heavy run control the clock team when we got Linehan as the OC because JG recognized that we had to protect Romo from himself.

 

[cern]

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.

great analysis. in hindsight, I agree.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

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.

its preseason....wait until regular season to make assessments on play calling. they could have gone passing 78 times and 2 runs and it wouldn't matter.

 

[Runwildboys]

is that grammatically a short "e" or a long "e"? i'm thinking the long version.

Well, he does have a slight Puerto Rican accent, so maybe I misunderstood. lol

 

[cern]

Well, he does have a slight Puerto Rican accent, so maybe misunderstood. lol

si, as in see, not sigh.

 

[Pantone282C]

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

Hmmm...I think the Bills will get tore up!

 

[Pantone282C]

is that grammatically a short "e" or a long "e"? i'm thinking the long version.

Gonna cry like a baby?

 

[Reid1boys]

I know the play calling on the blocked punt was simply outstanding. How bout the play call on the safety picking the ball off? I mean, with that kind of play calling, we could go a long way for sure. The preperation, and play calling from our coaches was clearly top notch in this game. We have clearly turned the corner.

 

[blueblood70]

I dont think we've seen the real offense yet..it looks familiar because they are vanilla and will not show the true new alignments, formations, and schemes off those alignments..game 1 hopefully its more obvious..

The only things that interest me is the in game management and the change we most needed is the chess game, when the Game plan falls apart and they need to flip switch and adjust..

IMO the game plans when executed more times then not worked well, its SL and Garrets inability to adjust when the plan fell through and running into a wall like the rams/Colts game.. they had no answer..they need an answer when this happens..thats what I am waiting for as well as better disguised calls on 1st down and 4th and whatever to get creative..

 

[conner01]

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.

I loved how pollard moved back around to pick up his blockers
Smart play for a rookie
This kid in space can be a nice waepon

 

[nobody]

I believe they won their division and made the playoffs last season? . they have a good dl and lbs lets stop trying to lessen the win by lowering the opponent.. just say it was Preseason and thats that..

Fair enough, but from what I have read and heard, Houston isn't expected to do much this season. Yeah, it's preseason. There is promise there, but nobody is showing everything they have in preseason, so getting too excited yet is a recipe for disappointment.

I do have hope for the season though. Linehan is gone, apparently Moore will be allowed to change things up without Garrett interference. Don't get me wrong, Garrett is a good player motivator, but he's way too conservative for today's NFL. Let's hope Moore is what they hope he is and his inexperience coaching doesn't hurt.

 

[blueblood70]

Fair enough, but from what I have read and heard, Houston isn't expected to do much this season. Yeah, it's preseason. There is promise there, but nobody is showing everything they have in preseason, so getting too excited yet is a recipe for disappointment.

I do have hope for the season though. Linehan is gone, apparently Moore will be allowed to change things up without Garrett interference. Don't get me wrong, Garrett is a good player motivator, but he's way too conservative for today's NFL. Let's hope Moore is what they hope he is and his inexperience coaching doesn't hurt.

lets hope Zeke is here game 1...much better outlook with him..

 

[nobody]

lets hope Zeke is here game 1...much better outlook with him..

While Zeke would help, I think the Cowboys can win without him. It's really a matter of playcalling, execution and matchups. With the Cowboys going deep more and succeeding, it will spread the defense more and there should be less stacking the box. That makes Pollard's job easier. Granted, Zeke would eat that situation alive, but I think the Cowboys can do alright without him.

 

[Rockport]

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.

And we haven’t seen the real Kellen Moore offense yet and won’t until we face the ******’s.

 

[quickccc]

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 know the foundation and base of this offense is Garretts' ( time based rhythm offense) but the revamping and coaching retooling is going to be more
towards kellen moore, jon kitna and possibly TE coach Brad Musseheimer (sp) but the lead dog will be kellen moore and what he adds new to the existing
foundation.

we are going to see mike martz like passing philosophy (as kitna was a tutelage of martz) in that it is more vertical push of the passing game, more of an emphasis of the deep ball approach, getting the ball more effectively to the biggest weapons of the pass game, while also working the kinks out such as quickly progression reads, getting the ball out more quicker vs holding ball for sacks.

But as regards to Moore's biggest assets , i suspect that it will be the expected addition of pre-snap motion and various moving formations and designs that is supposed to be the biggest splash to Kellen offense.
i think it's gonna be a more space age rather than stone age offense - more RPO formations, better play action sets, ..more WR bunch formation and pick-rub route plays ...far better designed and more often used than under Linehan.

what challenges i think Moore will have ? Red zone issues and having to counter-scheme ad make adjustments to what defenses will try to disrupt those pre-snap offense and all that happens upfront.

i think if Moore is successful early, defenses will try to come at us with overload blitzes, and twists and stunts to try to confuse both our OL and QB. .. ala Zone Blitzes. That's when i do wonder if Kellens' inexperience as a 1st year OC would show up.

 

[Praxit]

...now this is just probably me, but what I'm seeing is receivers getting open, creating space. I'm not sure if that's because its preseason or the way Moore has the guys running the routes? Anyhow, its a good thing.

 

[quickccc]

I loved how pollard moved back around to pick up his blockers
Smart play for a rookie
This kid in space can be a nice waepon

yes,.. the patience, vision, burst and run skills from pollard - you cant teach that..

 

[catiii]

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.

Well, we can hope this is Moore genius if there was a pattern - conditioning defenses to expect this in the real show when - SURPRISE the "pattern" gets SMASHED - we can hope.