Garrett got outcoached by Sheridan, plain and simple. Two plays tell the story, and they are the first and third interception.
This is blatantly wrong IMO. If he were outcoached as bad as you intimate, we wouldnt have had 31 pts, nearly 400 yds and over 250 yds rushing.
On the first one, the Giants not only had the right defense called in the huddle, they knew which defensive audible to call to counter Romo's audible. They were better prepared for that situation.
And again, did Romo have to throw it there? No. Further, it looked more like a bad throw to me than a bad read, as he either underthrew the deeper guy or overthrew the short pattern.
On the third one, Garrett thought he had set Sheridan up with the 12 formation for a big play action pass, but the presnap positioning of Jermaine Phillips tells you that Sheridan didn't care if they ran out of that formation.
And again, Garrett doesnt throw the pass for Romo. There are other people in the pattern, Romo never once looked at anyone else.
On offense, Kevin Gilbride decided to keep in extra protection to give Eli extra time to challenge our corners. He used the fact that we were focusing on the run to pull our safeties up and get one-on-one situations for Smith and Manningham. It was a successful strategy that Phillips was unable to counter.
Whats this have to do with Romo throwing 3 bad picks?
Several players need to do better, but that does not absolve the coaches from observing what their players have done throughout the course of the game and adjusting. When you just gashed their defense for 83 yards on 5 carries on the previous drive, with three carries over 10 yards and the other two carries from inside the 5, why dial up a deep pass when the opponent has yet to bring the safeties up?
Its called setting people up, most good play callers do that. That said, once AGAIN Garrett doesnt throw the ball for Romo or tell him which guy to throw it to.
I object to the remark that Garrett didn't tell Romo where to throw the ball on the third interception. The first option on that play is Hurd deep. Romo missed the safety, and he needs to improve that. But it doesn't give Garrett a pass for taking a risk and thinking he was going to outsmart a coordinator that was one step ahead of him all night.
You can object all you want, but you'd be wrong and just looking for a scapegoat. The QB made a poor read, period. There were other guys in the pattern, Romo never looks anywhere else on that play. His mind was made up before he ever took the snap.
We scored 31, but who's to say it wouldn't have been 38 or more if we had kept running the ball?
Or if the QB hadnt turned it over 3 times.
We only threw 29 times. We've had nearly a 50/50 run/pass balance in both games. Thats great balance.