News: New Offensive Wrinkles Coming For Cowboys?

[CCBoy]

New Offensive Wrinkles Coming For Cowboys?
By Tom Ryle

The Dallas Cowboys have made some significant changes to their offense to try and end the doldrums it suffered for three weeks under Brandon Weeden. Matt Cassel now will have the reins, and the hope is that he is going to be more effective. The gameplan with Weeden was very conservative. Will Scott Linehan try some things with Cassel that he would not try the past three games?

It probably is time. The Cowboys need to move the ball and score more points. The game against the New York Giants is a very good one to try some new things out, because the Giants have not been having much success at all getting pressure on the quarterback. Dallas showed it was willing to throw some new stuff on the field with the defense when it rolled out the 3-2-6 alignment against the New England Patriots. What kind of things might they try offensively?

Anything the team does has to recognize the limitation that Cassel has. He does not have the strongest arm, so he is not going to be good for really long throws. But he can make the middle range passes. The Cowboys don't have to complete long bombs to loosen up the run defense. Throws 15 to 20 yards downfield can do that as well, and Cassel can make that kind of throw...

http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2015...k-giants-matt-cassel-darren-christine-michael

 

[PoundTheRock]

The magic 8 ball says don't count on it.

 

[dallasdave]

Cassel and winning the game will be the new !!!

 

[DandyDon1722]

Doesn't matter if he tries to throw deep and can't quite get it there.
Doesn't matter if he tries to make some intermediate throws and he's not that accurate.
Doesn't matter if he tires to fit some throws in and gets picked.

What matters is he tries - because he's going to hit some. It'll keep the defense honest and open up the running game --

And with a great defensive effort which I expect - that might be all we need.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

The magic 8 ball says don't count on it.

My daughter's Magic 8-Ball says, "Anything is possible."

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

Doesn't matter if he tries to throw deep and can't quite get it there.
Doesn't matter if he tries to make some intermediate throws and he's not that accurate.
Doesn't matter if he tires to fit some throws in and gets picked.

What matters is he tries - because he's going to hit some. It'll keep the defense honest and open up the running game --

And with a great defensive effort which I expect - that might be all we need.

so basically it comes down to execution

 

[LocimusPrime]

The new offensive wrinkle is to throw passes to wide receivers. Innovative. Shhhhhhh don't tell anyone.

 

[morasp]

Last year they ran the ball and it seemed to work. Eight man nine man front didn't seem to matter. And when they did throw it was open.

 

[Oh_Canada]

Can they for once spread 'em out on first down and give Cassel the leeway to audible a play based on what the defense gives them? Just amuse us.

 

[xwalker]

New Offensive Wrinkles Coming For Cowboys?
By Tom Ryle

The Dallas Cowboys have made some significant changes to their offense to try and end the doldrums it suffered for three weeks under Brandon Weeden. Matt Cassel now will have the reins, and the hope is that he is going to be more effective. The gameplan with Weeden was very conservative. Will Scott Linehan try some things with Cassel that he would not try the past three games?

It probably is time. The Cowboys need to move the ball and score more points. The game against the New York Giants is a very good one to try some new things out, because the Giants have not been having much success at all getting pressure on the quarterback. Dallas showed it was willing to throw some new stuff on the field with the defense when it rolled out the 3-2-6 alignment against the New England Patriots. What kind of things might they try offensively?

Anything the team does has to recognize the limitation that Cassel has. He does not have the strongest arm, so he is not going to be good for really long throws. But he can make the middle range passes. The Cowboys don't have to complete long bombs to loosen up the run defense. Throws 15 to 20 yards downfield can do that as well, and Cassel can make that kind of throw...

http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2015...k-giants-matt-cassel-darren-christine-michael

The title of his article is misleading. He didn't show any evidence that they are planning any "wrinkles" in the offense game plan.

I do like the idea of Witten, Beasley, Escobar and T.Williams on the field together as the receivers. For some reason Weed just couldn't get the ball to Escobar in a spot where he had any chance to catch it. Hopefully, Cassel is more accurate. Weed was also off on the slants to Williams. The ball has to be in front of Williams on that the slant, especially the slants that are close to the line of scrimmage where there is no time to adjust to the ball.

 

[cowboyblue22]

they have to be able to run the ball and score points to win.

 

[xwalker]

Last year they ran the ball and it seemed to work. Eight man nine man front didn't seem to matter. And when they did throw it was open.

If a defense ever used a 9 man front, Romo probably threw it to Dez on that play. Even with 8 man fronts there is a good chance that Romo was going to Dez in many of those situations.

 

[morasp]

If a defense ever used a 9 man front, Romo probably threw it to Dez on that play. Even with 8 man fronts there is a good chance that Romo was going to Dez in many of those situations.

They ran against eight a lot. There was talk that they told Romo not to audible out.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

The new wrinkle involves the quarterback not staring down the rush and walking into a sack.

 

[CATCH17]

I just don't want to play scared and end up ultimately doing what we're so scared of and lose.

 

[xwalker]

They ran against eight a lot. There was talk that they told Romo not to audible out.

They ran against 8 some and they had many runs that didn't gain much; however, they would eventually take advantage of defenses that started playing to their tendencies.

With Weed as the QB and without Dez, they have not had the ability to come back and take advantage when teams started loading up against the run.

Once they hit a few plays to Dez, etc., then defenses would back off the run and that's when Murray would rack up the yardage.

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

We've heard this from the Cowboys many times before with limited results.

 

[Junglist]

I want to see just one trick play in Garrett's career. Just one.

 

[FaSho]

The title of his article is misleading. He didn't show any evidence that they are planning any "wrinkles" in the offense game plan.

I do like the idea of Witten, Beasley, Escobar and T.Williams on the field together as the receivers. For some reason Weed just couldn't get the ball to Escobar in a spot where he had any chance to catch it. Hopefully, Cassel is more accurate. Weed was also off on the slants to Williams. The ball has to be in front of Williams on that the slant, especially the slants that are close to the line of scrimmage where there is no time to adjust to the ball.

Williams isn't catching a slant unless it sticks to his tummy.

 

[LocimusPrime]

I got ahold of the new playbook. Watch out now. Its top secret