Sure, we can Monday morning QB this thing and say he should’ve ran here or there but my gosh the play designs were on point and the timing of some of those calls were just perfect.
Dallas gave Garrett 10 years to come up with something and it ended with us playing football in the stone age while Moore has us using several formations and creativity on offense making us not very predictable.
That was a phenomenal game by him imo.
He was a chess player last night and it’s just a reminder how good it is to be away from Jason Garrett football. You know he’s at home watching thinking he would’ve crashed Zeke into Vita Vea 40 times.
the PLUS+
- the way Kellen shifted and moved formations and personnel all around, displaying misdirection plays and spreading the ball around.
This is yet another we can involved Pollard more into the offense. He doesn’t have to run ball to be involved.
Getting him in the open space as a motion guy and in same backfield as Zeke.
- I’m not sure we’ll see as many screens again as we did vs Bucs.
- Cowboys varied their attack, some short quick pass, as well as pushing the ball vertically vs
Bucs secondary (unfortunately killer OL flags on a couple huge plays)
- Cowboys went on the Road, in a loud hostile crowd, and scored 29 points, .. vs the SB champs and a defense that utterly frustrated Mahomes in SB.
- What remains Kellen’s biggest strengths is his ability to create effective pass route designs; how he schemes to get players more open in pass game; how he utilizes pre-snap motion multi-formation looks, the huddle tempo and pace of the offense and how we push the ball vertically
- Normally against the better teams and better defenses, I tend to think Kellen goes more conservative On the Road, and more aggressive while at Home.
- But he spilled the bucket out vs Bucs. Reverse pitches, Motion/Shifts and pushing ball vertically. Near 60 passes and scoring nearly 30 points.
The MINUS –
- As effective as the motion offense was in 1st half, it somewhat disappeared in the 2nd half, maybe the humidity fatigue played a part of the dialed down.
- Too bad Pollard wasn’t used more in passing game when Gallup went down. Too speedy and explosive to be used so limited.
- I forgot the stat but despite the 29 points we ‘re still missing too many opportunities in red zone. 1 out of 4 in red zone
is not successful.
- Because of his sorry in line blocking, Moore needs to re-design and re-consider how we use Jarwin in goal line packages. In fact, Jarwin maybe another reason why we’re not as effective on the edge runs. He’s soft and too one dimensional, imo
- Supposedly we used the short pass game to become our short run game. While I can understand not being able to make a living vs run on the top run defense in NFL, I thought we went too pass happy and did not attempt to at least run the edges; but until we upgrade In line blocking TEs (see Jarwin) we’re still somewhat limited.
