Making things easier on 3rd downs?

[Flamma]

Do you feel that Lamb is a passing threat in our offense?

In general he is, but he's not really a deep threat.

 

[PAPPYDOG]

Hey, I was watching a Cowboys media show the one with Nate Newton, Jesse Holley and the crew. They mentioned our drives being made easier if we moved the ball better on 1st and 2nd downs.

For us, we will start a drive, and we'll run the ball on 1st, get 3 yards or less, 2nd down, we may get no gain or an incomplete pass. If we had a more efficient offense and were able to get (4) yards on first down, and a few on 2nd down, 3rd downs would be much easier to convert to 1st downs. We tend to have it 3rd and 7 or more, they mentioned if it's 3rd and 6 it's different in terms of how hard it is to achieve a 1st down. To me, it would be much easier if it were 3rd and 2 or so. I've seen it be 3rd and 2 and we throw a deep pass when all we had to do is maybe a short pass play to Ferg or something.


What can we do as a team to achieve an easier goal to get 1st downs without it having to be 3rd and LONG. Please give your thoughts

You want to make things easier on 3rd down...................GET A REAL FRANCHISE QB!!!!

 

[Coogiguy03]

In general he is, but he's not really a deep threat.

It would help

 

[Coogiguy03]

You want to make things easier on 3rd down...................GET A REAL FRANCHISE QB!!!!

We have one and he's coming back in 2034 to take his crown!!

 

[charron]

The #1 thing good offenses and defenses do is disguise. It is so much easier to counter the opponent when you have a good idea what they are going to do. But every formation, lineup, etc has a weakness so if you disguise how you are attacking you can better exploit that weakness/matchup. On offense the cowboys are extremely obvious as to what they are trying to do. How often do we run pass rpo out of the same formations? Very little. This is traditional old school coaching, very little rpo, very little pre snap movement, very little fake handoff. Most everything is simple best your man straight up with simple easy routes with very little run after the catch possibilities. Safe plays, little reward without the super studs who can turn them into big gains.

 

[Flamma]

It would help

I'm not sure Lamb is any less of a deep threat than any other WR on the Cowboys besides Turpin. Good WRs can get open on any pattern. I don't think Lamb often runs deep routes due to him usually having to deal with a safety over the top.