Iggles Blog: Evaluating The Cowboys Offense

[BourbonBalz]

By the way, I have absolutely no problem with a fan of another team giving an intelligent and unbiased opinion of any part of our team. It makes good reading and provides another perspective than our own. While you might not agree with everything he posted, it was pretty good but not perfect.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

His assessment was solid, in my opinion.

Only one part was controversial -- his criticism of Roy Williams's hands. It was always my impression that Roy's hands and ability to make difficult catches were some of his best attributes. As Longhorn fan, I don't recall Roy dropping many pass during his days at Texas.

I concede that I've never performed or seen any rigorous statistic analysis on Roy's drops. I wonder if anyone could shed any light on this issue?

 

[Temo]

What?

The Iggles blog scoffs at featuring a tight end, goes on to say that traditional stats support their position and finish up by saying "forcing" the ball to Jason Witten has not been a problem in Big D.

Thanks.

Anyway, Witten had fewer passes forced to him the last two seasons than Terrell Owens did, #81 was targeted above all others. And fewer opportunities didn't stop Witten from leading the team in receptions the last two years, either.

Witten provided more bang for the buck, he ran better routes and had better hands than Owens.

So it isn't a bad thing that Tony Romo's most trusted target led the team in receptions two years in a row. It's nothing more than the result of all the work the two have put in together during their time with the Cowboys.

Well, he set up the argument with a hypothesis (it's not good to throw to your TE too often), then debunked it using stats (hasn't hurt Witten).

 

[Alexander]

The Iggles blog scoffs at featuring a tight end

That struck me as funny as well. Given the fact the Eagles thought about acquiring Tony Gonzalez and then took Cornelius Ingram, I'd say this fan doesn't even know the needs of his own team very well. Part of the reason Philadelphia has sputtered at times offensively is because L.J. Smith was such a disappointment.