Jason Garrett made a great point...

[SultanOfSix]

Only in fantasy land of some people's imagination can Garrett be blamed for a game where the rusher runs over 100 yards in the first half, and the offense executes a 20 play, 10+ minute time consuming drive that results in a TD.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

guess Garrett says the PATS are the best.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

Windward, you make an excellent point. our players didn't execute. Here's where we are going to differ a little. Barber doesn't get a heavy work load in sixteen games, all the sudden he is supposed to be Emmitt Smith in the playoff game? That's bad game planning.

Not calling plays that move Romo out of the pocket? Bad game planing.
Not gathering this offensive unit on the bench and at least trying to get them going, bad coaching period.

Some times when the execution is bad a coach varies from his plan, makes adjustments. Garrett did neither yesterday.
This loss was team wide, but coaches have to coach.

 

[Oh_Canada]

I don't fault Garrett for the balanced attack...but you're strength is throwing the football...those long drives were wonderful, but they also allowed the Giants to stay close and gain confidence. The moment Ross went out, the Cowboys should have went three/four wide exclusively and dared the Giants to stop them. The Packers are going to hang forty on that secondary next week if the weather isn't too harsh.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

No one is ever going to convince me that Garret did a good job today. His plan was to run Barber into exhaustion while letting some absolutely horrible Giant DB's off the hook. Keep on defending him and his awful decisions. I'll be back in the morning to laugh it up.

The one thing I would agree with you on is, last years staff was to be hung for the same thing this years staff will take no blame for.

 

[kbman]

Only in fantasy land of some people's imagination can Garrett be blamed for a game where the rusher runs over 100 yards in the first half, and the offense executes a 20 play, 10+ minute time consuming drive that results in a TD.

Barber was completely out of gas the 4th quarter, he had trouble picking up the blitzes....

 

[windward]

Windward, you make an excellent point. our players didn't execute. Here's where we are going to differ a little. Barber doesn't get a heavy work load in sixteen games, all the sudden he is supposed to be Emmitt Smith in the playoff game? That's bad game planning.

Not calling plays that move Romo out of the pocket? Bad game planing.
Not gathering this offensive unit on the bench and at least trying to get them going, bad coaching period.

Some times when the execution is bad a coach varies from his plan, makes adjustments. Garrett did neither yesterday.
This loss was team wide, but coaches have to coach.

Yeah the idea of utilizing Barber more was an interesting strategic move.Tactically, it was working for two and a half quarters. Then the players started not executing it. Dropped passes quit routes bad passes etc... did not give us the flexibility we wanted

 

[utrunner07]

No one is ever going to convince me that Garret did a good job today. His plan was to run Barber into exhaustion while letting some absolutely horrible Giant DB's off the hook. Keep on defending him and his awful decisions. I'll be back in the morning to laugh it up.

hahah that guy just does not get it....most everyone is to blame for this game including Garret. Some people just don't get it and are too stubborn to think else wise.

 

[khiladi]

The 4th quarter play calling was bad. The routes were all long and they starting keeping 2 in to block, giving Romo no check downs or hot reads for the overload blitzes that started coming.

I have been saying this all year. While we are a vertical offense, we never game-plan to make the DBs tighten up to the line of scrimmage. We are not that good at creating spacing issues, and even if we do, it takes way too long for the play to develop. We force our OL to hold the contact way too long, so we end up resorting to keeping additional blockers in the game.

 

[SultanOfSix]

No one is ever going to convince me that...

No one convinces you of anything.

 

[InmanRoshi]

Why does Jason Garrett hate the slant route so much when he has one of the best YAC receivers in the NFL?

 

[Givincer]

No one convinces you of anything.

Evidenced by his name.

 

[khiladi]

Why does Jason Garrett hate the slant route so much when he has one of the best YAC receivers in the NFL?

And ironically, one of our best performances, if not best performance, was when TO was running the slant-routes against Philly....

 

[Cochese]

Why does Jason Garrett hate the slant route so much when he has one of the best YAC receivers in the NFL?

Great point, but dont bother. The gameplan yesterday was fine.

 

[TheHerd]

Completely disagree. If these teams played a hundred times in a row, Dallas wins 65. That's why I say they are the better team overall. It just so happens that they lost today.

Better includes smarter and coaching counts. We are not better because we're dumber and our coaches are not that good.

 

[vicjagger]

I listened to Garrett. The point I most remember was his emphasis on down and distance in the second half. He said that was what they couldn't overcome.

Some examples of down & distance in the second half:

3rd & 7
3rd & 7
3rd & 12
2nd & 18
3rd & 13
2nd & 11
3rd & 11
3rd & 13
2nd & 24
3rd & 9
2nd & 20
3rd & 20
1st & 15
2nd & 11
3rd & 11

 

[khiladi]

Great point, but dont bother. The gameplan yesterday was fine.

Not only that, the slant is a higher-percentage play than a late developing long-pass play...

 

[DCfaninDC]

It would not have pained me to lose if it had not been to a team that we are clearly better than. If any coach in the league had a chance to start their coaching careers with our players or the Giants' players every single one would take our players.

If we had lost today to a team like the Packers, I wouldn't feel half as bad. but the Giants??? This is a clear example of the better team not advancing. That's what hurts the most and is gonna keep hurting until next season.

Ummm, they beat us. Let's be men and admit it. Stop all this "but we only gave up 21...", "they only scored 7 in the scond half...", "D Ware's offisides...","Romo and Mexico.......".

This is football and this is how it is. The team that played better in all 3 areas wins. The Giants won and that is it.

I really liked what Charles Barkley said on MNF. I hate those who say we are better than our record. You are what your record says you are. Who played those game that made up your record? YOU. Same goes for yesterday's game.

Plain and simple, the Dallas Cowboys (as a team) lost yesterday to the New York Giants team.

 

[DboyzFanAlec]

This is not a good point from Garrett. True, 31 other fan groups experience similar pain around this time of year. Its a whole lot different for us because:

1) We haven't won a playoff game in a 11 ****ing years!
2) We greatly out-played the opposition and found a way to lose.
3) Our first real shot in some time.
4) We would've won had it not been for stupidity of Pat Crayton. HESITATED ON A VERTICAL ROUTE? God.
5) Phillips has never won a playoff game. It leaves us completely and utterly unconvinced.
6) We once again dwindled later on in the year. I expected if anything were to go it was our defense. Our defense remained poor, our offense got much worse.
7) We lost to Eli Manning.

The End