Next Gen Stats Wk 18 - WR Separation

[jblaze2004]

Dalton - 1.5
Gallup - 1.7
Brown - 1.7
Lamb - 3.4

I’ve seen some poor separation stats but this is among the worst I’ve ever seen for a single game from 3 of your top 4 receivers.

The Kellen Garrett special. We probably run the most curls and comebacks in the NFL.

 

[Starforever]

Dallas does a terrible job playing to their players strengths. They hardly ever make a defense adapt to their gameplan. It's like the defense is at their practices.

 

[JW82]

I thing that says a lot about the predictability of the routes.

 

[Mattitude]

Cooper and lamb would have been a great duo

 

[CWR]

Todd Bowles will bracket Lamb the whole game and blitz Dak up the middle. Wait for it folks

Then we need to run 12 personnel and hit our TEs and TP.

 

[JW82]

I thing that says a lot about the predictability of the routes.

This typo leads me to a suggestion of leaving the edit button permanently. Maybe note “This post was edited”

 

[cnuball21]

Cooper and lamb would have been a great duo

No kidding…and what’s worse is we did nothing to replace him.

Shocking our pass O hasn’t been as good this year huh?

 

[Creeper]

The Dak excuses thread continues… we’ve had the same WR core all year long when “Dak was doing Dak”.. I guess we got excuses for Rush against the Eagles now?

how many “Dak-friendly” WRs we got to invest in?

this time ladt year, you guys were telling us Amari couldn’t get open or was giving up on routes.

Tell me how much separation 98 had over the middle on this pick 6? Let’s also ignore the fact Dak was staring down the WR the WHOLE WAY which allowed the defender to create no separation, as he broke on the route. But blame MOORE or the WRs, not the fact Dak is just an early read QB.

Got to love the Dak fan-boys. None of these stats tell us anything about the separation a particular WR or TE had, when Dak didn’t even bother looking their way when he decided to throw to a receiver even if we assume they didn’t create much separation.

I am going back and forth with this INT. Was it a mental error or a physical error? At first I thought it was mental. He should have seen that guy breaking on the receiver all the way. But both teams knew where the first down marker was and they knew Dak had to get the ball to that marker somehow. The defense was playing the 1st down yardage. After watching it over again I think Dak needed to zip that ball out there. Instead he kind of floated one and it was inside the receiver. The ball needed to be outside toward the sideline. The decision wasn't that bad. In fact, had he gotten the ball outside with some zip with the DB breaking inside, it could have been a big play for Dallas.

Accurate QBs will make that throw to the sideline side of the receiver 99.9% of the time and it will be a 1st down. In this case the DB actually gambled and won.

This is 100% Dak's fault. It was a bad decision compounded by a bad throw, but a good throw could have resulted in a big play.

In the end it doesn't matter, it was a pick 6. But it does matter because Dak's accuracy late in the season in big games has been a problem since 2017, and I think it is getting worse every year.

 

[khiladi]

I am going back and forth with this INT. Was it a mental error or a physical error? At first I thought it was mental. He should have seen that guy breaking on the receiver all the way. But both teams knew where the first down marker was and they knew Dak had to get the ball to that marker somehow. The defense was playing the 1st down yardage. After watching it over again I think Dak needed to zip that ball out there. Instead he kind of floated one and it was inside the receiver. The ball needed to be outside toward the sideline. The decision wasn't that bad. In fact, had he gotten the ball outside with some zip with the DB breaking inside, it could have been a big play for Dallas.

Accurate QBs will make that throw to the sideline side of the receiver 99.9% of the time and it will be a 1st down. In this case the DB actually gambled and won.

This is 100% Dak's fault. It was a bad decision compounded by a bad throw, but a good throw could have resulted in a big play.

In the end it doesn't matter, it was a pick 6. But it does matter because Dak's accuracy late in the season in big games has been a problem since 2017, and I think it is getting worse every year.

That’s what Warner said I believe, that the throw was behind.

 

[blueblood70]

I don't need advanced stats to tell me we only have one receiving threat worth a darn.

TY is also a late add but hes getting open.

 

[blueblood70]

Todd Bowles will bracket Lamb the whole game and blitz Dak up the middle. Wait for it folks

and TY ,Schultz, Furgeson all will then have BIG games. GamePlan going in is a lot of TP, Zeke and those other players under that Tampa 2 d, they were not going to have 3 wides running 9s all game against that anyway....
and we will blitz Tom up the middle and bracket Evans.. and your point? standard ds will go in hoping to do it but who struggles with executing it, stay tuned, its why you play the game and why fans watch it.

 

[Cowboys0988]

Dalton - 1.5
Gallup - 1.7
Brown - 1.7
Lamb - 3.4

I’ve seen some poor separation stats but this is among the worst I’ve ever seen for a single game from 3 of your top 4 receivers.

Dalton..Gallup and Brown... All slow Tight Ends.

 

[Cowboys0988]

Todd Bowles will bracket Lamb the whole game and blitz Dak up the middle. Wait for it folks

So 88 will get 3 targets and Brown will get 12 targets. 100%.

 

[Aven8]

So 88 will get 3 targets and Brown will get 12 targets. 100%.

It’s Moore’s job to change this narrative. Put Lamb in the slot and play TY more.

 

[CowboyFrog]

They gambled on Gallup returning to form and he didnt (hasnt yet) this is JG's route scheme, it is not made to help WR...its made to single them up on a defender and the WR is suppose to beat them. You get suspect blocking and the QB is off that day and "Jag WR's" (thats what we have behind Lamb) ..not a good recipe for good results. KM will have to scheme this WR room open in the playoffs or its going to be a bummpy ride.

 

[goshann]

That was really obvious
There was no separation all day
I think it’s time to dig a little deeper in the playbook when you aren’t getting any seperations
More important it looked like lots of double coverage yet no underneath passes to pollard to attract coverage either

Yup have to get pollard out on routes a high percentage of the time

 

[Iago33]

But we’re not talking about catching the ball or ball placement at all…we’re talking about the amount a WR seperates per target. The QB has practically zero impact on that.

If we wanted to talk about catches…sure.

When is separation measured? At time of release? Then it is impacted by the QB.