Mark Sanchez calling our run audibles

[ConstantReboot]

Yea. One of the booth guys said Ball missed his block. It didn't matter at all because the safety on the left side had already knifed thru and tackled Zeke in the backfield. Dak should have seen that safety on the line and kept the ball. He could have strolled right in.

I don't know why they just don't do a QB sneak. I can't recall that 4th down with Zeke up the middle ever working when we need it to work.

 

[tunahelper]

Yes, because have the dumbest offensive coordinator in football named Kellen Moore.

A few weeks ago Greg Olsen was talking about our audibles and colors. We had flipped the usual color for right and left and the play was successful, so Kellen is at least aware teams are keying on the color scheme.

 

[805BoysInBlue]

He said Red mean run to the right, but he never once mentioned anything about blue.

 

[QuikZ06]

But he's eminently more qualified than you or I to discuss football.
Tha's the reason he's paid more for two broadcasts than we make in a year in quid.

Lol, don’t know what he gets paid but I can assure you I’m not hurting for money.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Red (run to the right)
Blue (run to the left)

Both runs were stuffed for losses. Are our audibles that simplistic?

Yes. Another example is the 4th down call. Everyone knew it was going to be a simple handoff to Zeke right up the middle.

ZERO creativity or imagination in the Cowboys offense sometimes. VERY annoying.

 

[Londonboy]

Red (run to the right)
Blue (run to the left)

Both runs were stuffed for losses. Are our audibles that simplistic?

Yellow (Yes).

 

[JohnsKey19]

There's nothing complicated about check calls. That's standard across the league. Teams will often use dummy checks to break tendencies on a given week.

 

[offlimits]

There's no secrets at this stage of the season with all the analytics and film available. Gotta win your matchup and execute

THIS ^

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

Red (run to the right)
Blue (run to the left)

Both runs were stuffed for losses. Are our audibles that simplistic?

the play calling today was horrible. the game plan was horrid. starts with Moore.

 

[Carson]

Yes. Another example is the 4th down call. Everyone knew it was going to be a simple handoff to Zeke right up the middle.

ZERO creativity or imagination in the Cowboys offense sometimes. VERY annoying.

Houston played up pretty simple and it worked.

They either stacked the box or dropped everybody. They almost knocked down all of Daks passes

 

[jazzcat22]

The announcers do this every game for every team. It’s also important to remember, or maybe most fans just don’t know, that the angles the announcers have and that you have on TV give insight into plays that defensive players at field level from their vantage point don’t get. This is one reason why most coordinators prefer a booth rather than being on the field. If you know what you’re looking at even most educated fans can guess roughly what’s about to happen based on alignment, motion, situation and personnel. For instance, our first touchdown today was either going to be a dive to Zeke or an end around to Pollard. Those are literally the only two things you’d ever run out of that combination of wide side receiver/tackle alignment with the lone short side wide out coming in motion. The fact that said wide out was Tony Pollard makes it even more obvious. You had a 50% chance of being right just by knowing basics of offensive football.

If every defensive player had access to the pre snap view of the play from the TV angle the average score of an NFL game would be 10-7. The most challenging pre snap aspect of playing defense is the lack of relative depth and movement perception. It’s much harder to read linem

Ever since Tony Romo's 1st year announcing when he did this to almost perfection. Which seems he dialed back on it now. All the announcers started doing it.
Except Troy Aikman other than a few times here and there, he just giggles and chuckles now.

 

[Section446]

The QB is just too simplistic.

 

[EST_1986]

Moore is subscribed to the just beat your man mentality no need to attempt to out smart them

 

[cowboyed]

Are you really surprised? Everyone is able to see our playcalling from a mile away. It’s not that hard. Moore needs to be fired. And he needs to take Dak with him.

Overreact much? Last I looked we are 10-3 not 3-10. You are like a cheerleader for the morgue. So Moore and Dak need to be fired. When? Should we just tank the rest of the season or who can we replace them with and get the team ready when we play the Jaguars this coming weekend? We struggled against the Texans but we overcame our blunders and won.

 

[superonyx]

Could be. On that 4th and goal I knew it was going to Zeke up the middle for no gain. I bet the defense knew it too. That play needs to thrown into the dumpster.

And if the playcall was more "creative" and didn't work you and all the 20/20 hindsight internet whiz kids would be on here saying to fire Moore for trying to be too cute. You guys would be yelling to just pound the ball in the middle with Zeke.


Every play that doesn't work was a bad play call and every play that does work is aa great play call.

So predictable.

 

[nightrain]

Sanchez made it sound like Blue and Red were fairly commonly used in the league to mean left and right. I dont think it was some secret code they learned by spending time at the team practice.

That is exactly what it is. Most if not all teams teams use similar language at the LOS. I heard another NFL player in the booth say the same thing.

 

[Whyjerry]

His calling the games in the booth is much better. I actually liked the duo yesterday.

Yeah they were really good.

 

[Cowboy4ever]

Sanchez made it sound like Blue and Red were fairly commonly used in the league to mean left and right. I dont think it was some secret code they learned by spending time at the team practice.

Red and blue has been around in football for ever. We used it when I was in HS and I am 50 yrs old. It’s nothing new. It’s the word after that is what is important. Red wolf was used yesterday. Does that mean inside to outside zone ? Or does it mean anything at all? Could have been dummy calls.

 

[Qcard]

The announcers do this every game for every team. It’s also important to remember, or maybe most fans just don’t know, that the angles the announcers have and that you have on TV give insight into plays that defensive players at field level from their vantage point don’t get. This is one reason why most coordinators prefer a booth rather than being on the field. If you know what you’re looking at even most educated fans can guess roughly what’s about to happen based on alignment, motion, situation and personnel. For instance, our first touchdown today was either going to be a dive to Zeke or an end around to Pollard. Those are literally the only two things you’d ever run out of that combination of wide side receiver/tackle alignment with the lone short side wide out coming in motion. The fact that said wide out was Tony Pollard makes it even more obvious. You had a 50% chance of being right just by knowing basics of offensive football.

If every defensive player had access to the pre snap view of the play from the TV angle the average score of an NFL game would be 10-7. The most challenging pre snap aspect of playing defense is the lack of relative depth and movement perception. It’s much harder to read linem

You are on Fire with Knowledge

Great post

 

[StarOfGlory]

Lol, too bad Mark Sanchez couldn’t read the defense when he played, lol easier to call stuff up in the booth.

He reads them well enough to win more playoff games in the past 20 years than we have.