Jerry's changes are working..

[khiladi]

I wish he laterally ran routes but everything we did with him was straight down field.

We didn't drag him across the field much, we never ran slants to him, and when we threw him a dig route it was usually far enough down field to where the safety could easily get to him after the corner had already sold out on doing nothing but bumping him.

We used TO so poorly along with every other receiver on this team.


Had we "forced" him the ball like everyone insists we did than I would hope Jason wouldn't have been stupid enough to force it to him 15 yards down field every time because thats the only type of routes he ran.

Exactly... LF is used differently than TO to even compare the two is absurd. Garrett has escaped so much accountability it is ridiculous. Even Romo is being attacked because of his 'carelessness' of trying to throw the ball to TO. People don't realize that by saying Romo was forcing it to TO overlooking other receivers are pretty much saying TR ignored the progressions that Garrett had for him. That is a huge stain on Tony Romo if anything and makes him look like an idiot and person that is not coachable. As if it isn't the OC job to reign the QB in and establish a running game or call certain progressions for other receivers.

 

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Exactly... LF is used differently than TO to even compare the two is absurd. Garrett has escaped so much accountability it is ridiculous. Even Romo is being attacked because of his 'carelessness' of trying to throw the ball to TO. People don't realize that by saying Romo was forcing it to TO overlooking other receivers are pretty much saying TR ignored the progressions that Garrett had for him. That is a huge stain on Tony Romo if anything and makes him look like an idiot and person that is not coachable. As if it isn't the OC job to reign the QB in and establish a running game or call certain progressions for other receivers.

Hopefully the slant pattern and checking it down to the RB gets brought back to the Cowboys offense in 09.

Since Jason is a Norv turner guy you would think those 2 things would be staples in the offense considering we ran about a billion slants to Irvin and always checked it down to Emmitt in the flats.

 

[khiladi]

Hopefully the slant pattern and checking it down to the RB gets brought back to the Cowboys offense in 09.



Since Jason is a Norv turner guy you would think those 2 things would be staples in the offense considering we ran about a billion slants to Irvin and always checked it down to Emmitt in the flats.

To me, Garrett hasn't learned a damn thing for Norv Turner. Play-action is essentially non-existent in Garrett's playbook and it was a staple of the offense of past. It forced the DBs to come up and helped the WRs. Further, Troy AIkman never used shot-gun at all while Romo is constantly in shot-gun. Further, our timing based offense of today is running to the line at the last second, hurrying to get the ball off. You would think that all this throws off the whole notion of the timing-based offense. Garrett is more in the clone of Mike Martz than Norv Turner. It is no surprise Martz and Garrett always have their QBs getting hit, though they are high in terms of yardage. Romo being injured throughout the year is also on Garrett in that he never resorted to three-step drops and getting the ball out quickly with short routes.

 

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To me, Garrett hasn't learned a damn thing for Norv Turner. Play-action is essentially non-existent in Garrett's playbook and it was a staple of the offense of past. It forced the DBs to come up and helped the WRs. Further, Troy AIkman never used shot-gun at all while Romo is constantly in shot-gun. Further, our timing based offense of today is running to the line at the last second, hurrying to get the ball off. You would think that all this throws off the whole notion of the timing-based offense. Garrett is more in the clone of Mike Martz than Norv Turner. It is no surprise Martz and Garrett always have their QBs getting hit, though they are high in terms of yardage. Romo being injured throughout the year is also on Garrett in that he never resorted to three-step drops and getting the ball out quickly with short routes.

Oh I agree.

We had a panic mode offense. If we were tied or behind we completely sold out on the pass.

What bugs me more than the actual playcalling itself was that everytime Romo stepped back and screamed out KILL KILL KILL we ran it 100% of the time.

It blew my mind that we didn't disguise it better than that.

The #2 thing that made me mad was when Garrett said we didn't have any plays for Felix Jones when we were behind. That was his excuse for not using him against Washington in the 1st game.