Jason Garrett recognizes what Giants is going to do

[SaltwaterServr]

Regarding the play action passes; where are they? Even when we are running the ball well, I don't notice much use of play action. Maybe, I've just been overlooking it. Do you guys think play action is utilized enough?

BTW, I'm not ragging on Garrett for this, just asking the question.

Well, we use it here.

http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/20091...@cowboys#tab:watch/contentId:09000d5d814832bf

 

[Everlastingxxx]

If the Giants play man-to-man, I'm not worried. The Raiders played man and our offense performed really well. Miles would be a huge beneficiary of it. It is the zone coverage that gives the Cowboys fits...

The Raiders did play man, but only covered Witten with a single LBer...insane and dumb. Reminded me of when the Niners covered Owens with no safety help. I doubt another team makes that mistake again and goes back to Witten being double covered or covered by a corner.

Giants will probably play cover 2 to protect their suspect secondary...should allow the Cowboys to run (if Garrett commits to it). Then man to man on 3rd downs...need Austin to be featured again, get him the ball!

 

[silverbear]

http://www.dallascowboys.com/multimedia/multimedia_center.cfm?id=3370FF0C-96E5-C102-FBD96257320097C0

He mention they can play man to man and they can rush around the edge. My only question would be, does this mean the Cowboys going to run the ball more and setting up play actions?

Probably not... you see, the Giants are sure to remember that they gave up over 250 yards rushing to the Boys back in Week Two, and will undoubtedly be tailoring their defensive game plan around stopping the run this time around... combine that with the Giants' injury woes in their secondary, and I look for Garrett to come out firing the ball early, often off of run fakes...

And before anybody jumps me about the Giants' pass D, I do know that they're currently ranked 2nd in the NFL, but to me that stat is misleading... you see, they've only been thrown on 295 times in 11 games, the 4th fewest in the NFL... but when you look at their other passing stats, they don't stack up so well:

Completion percentage allowed-- 59.7%, 12th in the league...

Quarterback rating allowed-- 86.8, 21st in the league...

TD passes allowed-- 18, tied for 6th worst in the league... which given the few numbers of passes attempted against them, probably means that they give up a higher percentage of TD passes than any other team in the league (or close to it)... they give up a TD pass in every 18 attempts this season, which is really pretty bad...

Completions of 20 yards or more-- 32, 12th in the league... and again, when you factor in that opposing teams have only thrown the ball 325 times all season, means that they give up a completion of 20 or more every ten pass plays...

And those numbers get even worse when you just look at their recent 1-5 skid... over that stretch, they have given up 32.2 points per game, have allowed 128 completions in 199 attempts (64.3 per cent), for 1562 yards (250.3 yard per game, 7.8 yards per attempt), with 14 TDs allowed versus just 4 ints...

That works out to an opposing quarterback rating of 103.5 in those 6 games... ouch...

Then consider that the Boys are pretty much a big play offense, especially passing offense... so when I think about the way the Boys dominated the Giants on the ground the last time around, and realize that the Giants will almost certainly be focused on stopping the running game this time, and I factor in that the Giants' secondary has been vulnerable this year, I expect the Boys coming out trying to exploit that secondary...

If they have some success doing so, then late in the game I could see them going to pounding the ball with the running game... but this is definitely a game I'd go into planning on throwing the ball 35 times or more...

 

[silverbear]

I my grammar OK?

Her arthritis was kicking up yesterday, but said she was feeling better today...

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Probably not... you see, the Giants are sure to remember that they gave up over 250 yards rushing to the Boys back in Week Two, and will undoubtedly be tailoring their defensive game plan around stopping the run this time around... combine that with the Giants' injury woes in their secondary, and I look for Garrett to come out firing the ball early, often off of run fakes...

And before anybody jumps me about the Giants' pass D, I do know that they're currently ranked 2nd in the NFL, but to me that stat is misleading... you see, they've only been thrown on 295 times in 11 games, the 4th fewest in the NFL... but when you look at their other passing stats, they don't stack up so well:

Completion percentage allowed-- 59.7%, 12th in the league...

Quarterback rating allowed-- 86.8, 21st in the league...

TD passes allowed-- 18, tied for 6th worst in the league... which given the few numbers of passes attempted against them, probably means that they give up a higher percentage of TD passes than any other team in the league (or close to it)... they give up a TD pass in every 18 attempts this season, which is really pretty bad...

Completions of 20 yards or more-- 32, 12th in the league... and again, when you factor in that opposing teams have only thrown the ball 325 times all season, means that they give up a completion of 20 or more every ten pass plays...

And those numbers get even worse when you just look at their recent 1-5 skid... over that stretch, they have given up 32.2 points per game, have allowed 128 completions in 199 attempts (64.3 per cent), for 1562 yards (250.3 yard per game, 7.8 yards per attempt), with 14 TDs allowed versus just 4 ints...

That works out to an opposing quarterback rating of 103.5 in those 6 games... ouch...

Then consider that the Boys are pretty much a big play offense, especially passing offense... so when I think about the way the Boys dominated the Giants on the ground the last time around, and realize that the Giants will almost certainly be focused on stopping the running game this time, and I factor in that the Giants' secondary has been vulnerable this year, I expect the Boys coming out trying to exploit that secondary...

If they have some success doing so, then late in the game I could see them going to pounding the ball with the running game... but this is definitely a game I'd go into planning on throwing the ball 35 times or more...

Looking at their last 6 games, I'm not so sure we can't run on them at will.

New Orleans and Philly lit them up for 133 and 180 on the ground and Denver just added another 130 against them.

The only reason NY's run defense isn't lower than 13th right now is because they just got done playing San Diego (29th rushing offense), Arizona (27th rushing offense), and Atlanta without Michael Turner.

Losing Antonio Pierce should make them even more susceptible to the run. With the fact that they are playing horrible coverage, they might have to keep their safeties back like in the first game to protect against Miles burning them.

Eh, bottomline they've got holes against the run and they've got a sieve for a secondary. Let 'em play zone all day long. Mr. Witten became Mr. Witten by exploiting the underneath soft spots and burning those seam routes.

From here on out, NY's defense is going to have to play well beyond their collective ability to win any game besides Washington.

 

[RealCowboyfan]

The Raiders did play man, but only covered Witten with a single LBer...insane and dumb. Reminded me of when the Niners covered Owens with no safety help. I doubt another team makes that mistake again and goes back to Witten being double covered or covered by a corner.

Giants will probably play cover 2 to protect their suspect secondary...should allow the Cowboys to run (if Garrett commits to it). Then man to man on 3rd downs...need Austin to be featured again, get him the ball!

Good Point.