My biggest problem with the game

[TonyRomo#9]

was the pass to crayton over the middle where he literally stopped when he could kept running and caught the ball.. he got scared and stopped on his route, i know some of yall saw it.. that coulda been intercepted.
and we all know crayton has given up early on routes before.. even absurdly important ones.. now this doesn't seem to happen alot, but it happens, he needs to quit that... be more like witten.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

ESP isn't in the playbook.

Crayton expected Tony to come back inside, and Tony expected him to continue across. Last week against Washington Crayton broke back inside away from the defenders. Results, TD.

This week the smart thing would have been also to stop and break back inside away from the defenders. Romo thought he'd continue and the throw would have let Crayton outrun the defense to the corner or get nailed for a short gain.

ESP. It's so much easier in hindsight.

 

[The Panch]

Crayton stopped awfully fast while the play was still going on for him to be quitting on a route.

 

[HeavyBarrel]

Understand your frustration but he didn't quit on that route.

 

[TwoCentPlain]

Now you are seeing how hard it is to play QB in the NFL. Crayton did the right thing by sitting on that route. He found the open space. He correctly guessed that continuing on would have yielded nothing. Romo probably didn't see the defender and, thus, guessed that Crayton would continue.

Both players have to make adjustments on-the-fly. Crayton guessed right, Romo guessed wrong.

The Raider defender was in the right place at the right time. Give the Raider defense credit here.

 

[TonyRomo#9]

i might be wrong, but it looked to me like the ball was out when he stopped, ill go watch it again and see if i was wrong.

 

[CoachHodnett]

Looked to me like you average crossing route vs. Zone coverage (one of the few snaps the Raiders played zone).

Romo most likely anticipated Man and threw it as such. Crayton sat in the hole between the 2 LBs like he should have. Poor read by Romo.

 

[Idgit]

Oh, Jesus, God. Please not this again. Our fans have to be smarter than this.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

If a miscommunication between Romo and Crayton is the only complaint, I guess the Cowboys had a pretty good game.

 

[jackrussell]

i might be wrong, but it looked to me like the ball was out when he stopped, ill go watch it again and see if i was wrong.

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[Bleu Star]

i might be wrong, but it looked to me like the ball was out when he stopped, ill go watch it again and see if i was wrong.

You were wrong. See ya in a few.

 

[casmith07]

People act like it's video games out there like Romo is supposed to see some guy open in the corner while he's scrambling to his left with two 300lb defensive tackles breathing down his neck and 2 linebackers playing cover two in center field waiting for the pass.

 

[dadymat]

my biggest problem with the game is that fans are looking for the biggest problems of a game that was a 24-7 victory.....:rake:

 

[cowboyjoe]

was the pass to crayton over the middle where he literally stopped when he could kept running and caught the ball.. he got scared and stopped on his route, i know some of yall saw it.. that coulda been intercepted.
and we all know crayton has given up early on routes before.. even absurdly important ones.. now this doesn't seem to happen alot, but it happens, he needs to quit that... be more like witten.

Totally agree, Crayton wants us a fans to forgive and forget the pass he looked upfield for and dropped a sure big reception, and the TD pass that he hestitated on.

Thats the stuff we should remind crayton on, if you want to forget and forgive your playoff game against the giants, make those catches.

 

[Eskimo]

I guess that is an issue with the conversion route schemes that Garrett runs - the WR and QB have to be on the same page in reading the defense.

Our WR crew is all fairly young - I think it will get better and better over time if we keep the scheme reasonably consistent. This is only our 3rd year with Garrett as OC and only Romo's 4th year as the starting QB.

 

[CowboyMike]

I don't think I've ever seen Crayton quit on a route and he's never been scared or had alligator arms. Ever.

It was a misread by either Crayton or Romo.

The only time I can remember Crayton running a bad route is when he slowed down on that deep route during the playoff game in 2007. And who knows what that was all about.