Offensive passing game weakness diagnosed in 2016 article

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The one big change that could get Dak Prescott back on track
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Dieter Kurtenbach @dkurtenbach
Dec 16, 2016 at 8:57a ET
Opposing defenses have figured out how to beat Dak Prescott and the Cowboys’ offense.

The book on how to do it is in the public domain.​

Interesting to see someone make the diagnosis back in 2016 before the season was done.

1. Cornerbacks are able to win one-on-one against receivers, allowing safeties to play back on passing downs and up on rushing downs​

Solution:
Create more time
The Cowboys need to take a page out of the Seahawks’ playbook and get Prescott out of the pocket often Sunday and beyond.​

I also think that some max protect and really attacking the isolated press man coverage on Dez and Williams would have helped, although doing the same with Butler would have been even better.

Another interesting point:
taking away a lot of short routes that the Cowboys’ West Coast-style passing game needs to be effective.​

I did feel that in 2016 we did a lot more short, quick horizontal routes than our usual vertical routes. Much like the Jon Kitna era. Daj got the backup QB's offense. We got the ball out of Dak's hands quickly. I've never seen any analysis to confirm that, however.

The Kitna offense rolled pretty well. Felix was tremendously effective as receiver out of the backfield. Almost 10 yards per target, 90% completion rate. Making the reads short to long is the opposite of the long to short reads of Garrett's Coryell offense. It also backs off the dline, and particularly the DEs. It always would have helped our offense. I really hoped that they would continue with that when Tony came back, that they would have actually *learned* something by that. But no. We went back to the same old same old once Tony came back in 2011.

Garrett sticks with the Coryell when he has his starting QB. Makes life easier on the QB by getting the ball out of his hands sooner when he has a backup.

That's what it looked like to me to start the year. Dak was no longer the backup, and so he no longer got the backup offense *that worked so well*. They gave him the starter offense. And had him making a million pre snap adjustments too, just like they did with Tony.
 
It’s similar to 2014 to 2015.


We make a big change in the offense by imposing the run game and teams weren’t ready for our new tendencies.

Then in 15 everyone was prepared for that.

2016 we got the explosive RB and a QB that was efficient when ahead of the chains and could run. Also Cole Beasley broke out.

Then in 17 we just stuck to the same thing we did the year before in stubborn fashion.

We never get ahead of these things for any long period of time.

If we come out more deceptive in 2018 I’m sure we will bring the same thing to the table in 2019 and have another down year.
 
It’s similar to 2014 to 2015.
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Then in 15 everyone was prepared for that.

Except the "that" of 2014 never showed up anyway.

We had gotten rid of Murray and Romo broke and Dez missed 7 games and never looked healthy.

I don't think opponent preparation was our problem in 2015.
 
It’s similar to 2014 to 2015.


We make a big change in the offense by imposing the run game and teams weren’t ready for our new tendencies.

Then in 15 everyone was prepared for that.

2016 we got the explosive RB and a QB that was efficient when ahead of the chains and could run. Also Cole Beasley broke out.

Then in 17 we just stuck to the same thing we did the year before in stubborn fashion.

We never get ahead of these things for any long period of time.

If we come out more deceptive in 2018 I’m sure we will bring the same thing to the table in 2019 and have another down year.
like I always say......this team is always a day late and a dollar short on everything they do.
 
Take all the options away from Dak and give him two plays and be done.. he's no manning, just run the dang play.. sheesh.. not even sure he can read defenses.
 
Take all the options away from Dak and give him two plays and be done.. he's no manning, just run the dang play.. sheesh.. not even sure he can read defenses.

Dak has been going through his progressions since his first pre-season game.

He reads the defense perfectly fine.
 
a little pressure and he doesn't even see a third of the field.. without pressure he might be able to see half the field.
 

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