I really liked Garrett's offensive gameplan vs the Saints *Merge*

[CarlJohnson]

I think the most impressive part of our offense last was that everybody on offense contributed. Barber,jones, choice, austin, crayton, williams, hurd, ogletree, witten and the second tight end, phillips i think all touched the ball. Thats alot of players to try to contain if you are a d coordinator. I hope that is something we try to continue to do the rest of the year

 

[craig71]

I am believer even without the last night's game. Unlike some fickle fans, who turn on the dime, I have thought Garrett will one day be a good HC. Don't know he will be great one or not, since you never know till they become one. Same with Sparano, who I have heard few times on Radio and thought he can be a good HC. HE seems to headed to great Coach categories, if he continues on the path he is.

But if cowboys lose another game, we will see the fire the Garrett calls again from the same suspects. It was the same thing with Zimmer, no matter how much people like me said, Zimmer was a good DC, GROZ folks were out in full force. Its easy to blame coaches when things don't go well. Its a easy cop out, than realizing players are not performing, since you can;t easily replace players.

Some things will never change,fickle fans are one of them.


Craig

 

[craig71]

Very true. I firmly disagree with those who think Garrett does not have a clue I think he has more than a clue as to what he wants to do in terms of playcalling but it only comes about when players are executing and staying in good down and distance situations that allow the playbook to open up more

I agree.

I think so many people of today are of the "what have you done today" mindset.They fail to look at the big picture and also fail to recognize that we as fans don't have all the neccessary information to dispute many of the playcalls.

Craig

 

[CATCH17]

Again my feeling is you can do a lot more and open up the playbook more when you are dealing with reasonable downs and distance instead of trying to over come negitive plays. I think there are many things Garrett would like to do but it becomes very difficults when players are failing to execute.

But he has never done it.

Even when we weren't making mistakes.

Usually he puts us in a position to manage the game. Last night his game plan allowed us to go out and take the game.

 

[notherbob]

I enjoyed seeing the Cowboys play with an enthusiasm and confidence I rarely see in them these days. They played with a determination and intensity that I have seldom seen in this team the last few years. It was refreshing.

Hope they continue it next week but with this team it is hard to be confident of anything, they are so erratic and unpredictable.

 

[Doomsday101]

But he has never done it.

Even when we weren't making mistakes.

Usually he puts us in a position to manage the game. Last night his game plan allowed us to go out and take the game.

I think that is preception not reality. Garrett knows what he is doing but it takes players to go out and execute. I think the fact we were not seeing alot of neg plays and penalties we were able to open up things more. When we did makes some mistakes and were looking at 2nd and long 3rd and long we were forced to do limit somethings in order to pick up the 1st. When we are moving the chains ands staying in 2nd and medium and 3rd and short we can open up things we want to do.

 

[Doomsday101]

I enjoyed seeing the Cowboys play with an enthusiasm and confidence I rarely see in them these days. They played with a determination and intensity that I have seldom seen in this team the last few years. It was refreshing.

Hope they continue it next week but with this team it is hard to be confident of anything, they are so erratic and unpredictable.

I found it interesting that Ware said prior to the game the locker room was quite no music was playing and guys were not talking. He said he looked around the room and knew they were ready

 

[CATCH17]

I think that is preception not reality. Garrett knows what he is doing but it takes players to go out and execute. I think the fact we were not seeing alot of neg plays and penalties we were able to open up things more. When we did makes some mistakes and were looking at 2nd and long 3rd and long we were forced to do limit somethings in order to pick up the 1st. When we are moving the chains ands staying in 2nd and medium and 3rd and short we can open up things we want to do.

Agree to disagree then.

If everything has to go perfect for him to call a deceptive game plan than he will get fired at the end of the year.

He went out of his norm last night and it wasn't because everything fell perfectly into place.

It was obvious he had a more aggresive game plan than he has had in previous weeks.

 

[Doomsday101]

Agree to disagree then.

If everything has to go perfect for him to call a deceptive game plan than he will get fired at the end of the year.

He went out of his norm last night and it wasn't because everything fell perfectly into place.

It was obvious he had a more aggresive game plan than he has had in previous weeks.

We will just disagree. I think it is hard to call plays when players are failing to execute it becomes hard to get a flow going when you are trying to overcome bad plays

 

[Tio]

We will just disagree. I think it is hard to call plays when players are failing to execute it becomes hard to get a flow going when you are trying to overcome bad plays

It's not like those mistakes happen on every drive. I think Garrett becomes too focused on one aspect of the game. This gameplan was superb, and a few false starts wouldn't have changed our philosophy.
It should take more than a few mistakes to change your offensive philosophy.

Garrett called the game last night that he should have been calling all year.

 

[Cover 2]

I'm not a Garrett fan at all, but last night he called one heck of a game. Gotta give credit where credit's due.

 

[Doomsday101]

It's not like those mistakes happen on every drive. I think Garrett becomes too focused on one aspect of the game. This gameplan was superb, and a few false starts wouldn't have changed our philosophy.
It should take more than a few mistakes to change your offensive philosophy.

Garrett called the game last night that he should have been calling all year.

And I think Garrett know alot more than jr OC. He is not just now getting smart or understanding what is going on he has been in this league long enough to understand what he wants out of this group. Sorry but the truth is neg play impact what you are able to do. Saints would have loved to run the ball more last night however they were not because of the fact we kept them in long situations that benifet the defense sense they know you are more limited in what you can run.

 

[Cover 2]

This guy has been frustrating us with his decisions all season.

Other than our last redzone sequence (a little too conservative, magnified by Folk's missed fg) I think he called the perfect game.

We saw a very good mix of run/pass. That first drive was beautiful. A good amount of play action all game combined with a physical running game kept the Saints guessing, and Gregg Williams looked very frustrated.

Everything we have been screaming for finally came to fruition. We threw the bomb to Austin. Felix got a good amount of touches (was that a swing pass!?). Dallas actually had a screen pass work for once. Ogletree got his chances, our line really seemed to control their D quite easily. It goes on and on.

Most of all, we kept the ball away from Brees and if Folk wasn't such a thin skinned wuss, the game would have never been in doubt.

I think they made us punt twice (?). I hope we face the Saints in the playoffs (if we make it that far!) because I think their D doesn't want to see our O again.

The reason he did all those runs up the middle was to set up a chip shot field goal for Folk. If it's right down the middle that makes it an even easier kick. One field goal would have put us up by two scores, so he made the right decision IMO.

 

[AmishCowboy]

The OL played better as a unit. There were still a few breakdowns vs the blitz, but there werent any drive killing penalties and false starts in bad situations that have plagued us for alot of the season either.

The other key was how well play action worked last night. The Saints bit really hard on virtually every play action pass we tried.

 

[AmishCowboy]

I enjoyed seeing the Cowboys play with an enthusiasm and confidence I rarely see in them these days. They played with a determination and intensity that I have seldom seen in this team the last few years. It was refreshing.

Hope they continue it next week but with this team it is hard to be confident of anything, they are so erratic and unpredictable.

Hadn't seen a game like this since beating the Colts in 06.

 

[Taz]

I dropped my jaw at the pass fake -draw fake- then passed it.I never saw that one before and it froze the defense until the pattern developed. Way to go JG.

the fake handoff to barber and then romo running caught me by surprise.

One of the plays i haven't seen in a while that seems to get defense offguard is where romo fumbles then picks it up and passes for a huge gain. Love to see that thrown in. Might be to risky for the playoffs though.

 

[Idgit]

Honestly, I didn't think Garrett was any different from any other week. It just makes a difference when your OL limits blown pickups and the unit as a whole limits penalties and miscues in the red zone.

The drive where we got the 5 yard penalty on a 7 yard first down run and then stalled on RW drop (that was the same drive, wasn't it?) was the only example of the kind of things we've done routinely in other games this year that we limited against the Saints.

 

[Hoofbite]

Honestly, I didn't think Garrett was any different from any other week. It just makes a difference when your OL limits blown pickups and the unit as a whole limits penalties and miscues in the red zone.

The drive where we got the 5 yard penalty on a 7 yard first down run and then stalled on RW drop (that was the same drive, wasn't it?) was the only example of the kind of things we've done routinely in other games this year that we limited against the Saints.

I have no doubt he was different.

Play-action was used a decent amount last night and he had some packages that put some different guys on the field.

 

[links18]

The defense getting 2 straight 3 and outs to start the game really helped Garrett implement his game plan. Its much easier to call a good game up 14-0 before the first quarter ends. Props to the defense.

 

[EPL0c0]

It wasn't just about the play balance, but calling the correct type of play at the right times to take advantage of the Saints' defense.

It really was nice to see