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I asked Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy about the lack of identity and rhythm on offense this was his answer and if it was natural growing pains: "I think clearly, and we knew this coming out of camp, it’s where you are when you do make changes. We knew there were going to be some things in protection that we needed more work on because it’s different. There are things in the passing game we needed to work on that were different. We’ll continue to grow that. I have great confidence in that. I think the run concepts were some of the things that were probably the less new learning segments for our offense, so you work that. Continuity and consistency is obviously what we’re focused on. When you look at the full ball of wax, the five weeks, there has been consistency. No. 1, you have to score points in this league. In the modern NFL, you look at all the critical elements to being a championship football team, scoring points is way up there. We’re clearly in tune with that. but one of the things we want to also focus on because of the strength of our defense is taking care of the ball No. 1, which we did not do in our last contest, and No. 2 is having the discipline and patience if we have to to go the long route. It benefits the time of possession and keeps the defense fresh and playing to its strengths. Those are all visual, philosophical approaches of how you want your team to look. But at the end of the day, those conversations are for establishing menus of how you’re going to run it, throw it, protect it, and as you get into the game it’s no different from this week, you look at all of the elements they bring to the table, coming off a bye week, they’re getting healthy because some players are coming back we haven’t seen a lot of this year, so you factor that in and you select your menu items and you go to work to put together a plan.
I asked Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy about the lack of identity and rhythm on offense this was his answer and if it was natural growing pains: "I think clearly, and we knew this coming out of camp, it’s where you are when you do make changes. We knew there were going to be some things in protection that we needed more work on because it’s different. There are things in the passing game we needed to work on that were different. We’ll continue to grow that. I have great confidence in that. I think the run concepts were some of the things that were probably the less new learning segments for our offense, so you work that. Continuity and consistency is obviously what we’re focused on. When you look at the full ball of wax, the five weeks, there has been consistency. No. 1, you have to score points in this league. In the modern NFL, you look at all the critical elements to being a championship football team, scoring points is way up there. We’re clearly in tune with that. but one of the things we want to also focus on because of the strength of our defense is taking care of the ball No. 1, which we did not do in our last contest, and No. 2 is having the discipline and patience if we have to to go the long route. It benefits the time of possession and keeps the defense fresh and playing to its strengths. Those are all visual, philosophical approaches of how you want your team to look. But at the end of the day, those conversations are for establishing menus of how you’re going to run it, throw it, protect it, and as you get into the game it’s no different from this week, you look at all of the elements they bring to the table, coming off a bye week, they’re getting healthy because some players are coming back we haven’t seen a lot of this year, so you factor that in and you select your menu items and you go to work to put together a plan.
