Offensive Play Calling Horrendous

[Baileyneverfailey]

My big problem with the play calling was the continual forcing of the ball to Bryant.

I mean I agree we probably gave him too many targets and it took away some quality looks for Beasley, but if Dak's accuracy is on better instead of 4 catches for 113 and a TD Dez has like 7 or 8 catches for 200+ yards and 3 TDs. Feeding the ball to a superstar is not a bad idea.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I mean I agree we probably gave him too many targets and it took away some quality looks for Beasley, but if Dak's accuracy is on better instead of 4 catches for 113 and a TD Dez has like 7 or 8 catches for 200+ yards and 3 TDs. Feeding the ball to a superstar is not a bad idea.

Oh I agree Dak's accuracy was not acceptable for most of the game.

 

[T-RO]

Dak targeted Dez 14 times last night. 14. Twice as many as anybody else. 4 catches. That's less than a 30% completion percentage.

I POUNDED this point last week.

Dez is a low-percentage..but big play option. He's almost always blanketed in coverage and that's difficult for a rookie quarterback lacking precise accuracy. Dez also isn't always reliable in his routes.

Dak's accuracy last night:
4-14 - 29% To Dez
15-25 - 60% everyone else

I believe there was a deliberate effort to go to Dez more. Jerry pressed Dak to do this earlier in the season and may have been again leading up to this game.

 

[LocimusPrime]

Beasley is clutch. We need to continue to feed him. He moves the chains.

 

[Wezsh0T]

Schwartz guessed right all game, but we won our individual matchups in the passing game. I do feel that this game wouldn't have been close if we ran more screens when they all-out blitzed us or ran in the Shotgun formation. I noticed anytime Dak was in the Shotgun set we passed, and the Eagles stacked the line, but a few delayed Shotgun runs would've softened the Eagles aggressiveness.

I think they tried two delay shotgun runs. I think one ended up being stuffed for 7 yards and the other for 3. Those might have been different situations, but I thought I remembered seeing that.

 

[theebs]

I disagree. There were guys wide open all over the field and the throws were not completed and there were runs where the eagles did a great job beating our lineman to their spots and they slowed the running game down.

I think the playcalls were very good.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

When it works it is great playcalling when it doesn't its not.

I have been warning people what would happen if we ran into a team that could stop our run. GB failed. Eagles did not.

Without the threat of the run all those PA looks that Dak has relied on dried up. He wilted under the blitz. It was a good game plan. Expect to see it from other defenses. CLE cannot pull it off but PIT might.

 

[BAT]

You are right. I will say that not pounding the ball into the endzone with Zeke on two drives at the 5 was a huge mistake. We are a running team. Run the ball. We got 3 points and should have had 14. Sometimes OCs complicate the game. Its simple. Pound it.

Exactly. Cowboys SHOULD have been up 21 to 7 at the half if Cowboys committed to run inside the 30. The INT in the redzone, settling for FG and giving Eags enough time after INT to go down field and kick FG before halftime was the result of poor player execution, play calling, time management and in game adjustments.

 

[BAT]

When it works it is great playcalling when it doesn't its not.

I have been warning people what would happen if we ran into a team that could stop our run. GB failed. Eagles did not.

Without the threat of the run all those PA looks that Dak has relied on dried up. He wilted under the blitz. It was a good game plan. Expect to see it from other defenses. CLE cannot pull it off but PIT might.

Eagles did not stop the Cowboys run game, this is a fallacy. Cowboys chose not to run. All the 3 and outs were proof of that, Cowboys became one dimensional and that added to Dak's stress. Heck, Dak runs 12 hard yards for a first down then Linehan calls a pass play right after that, the guy could barely breathe, so lucky that off target pass was not also intercepted. Cowboys were too pass happy last night. Whether the pass was not working due to poor execution or being one dimensional, the point being missed was that IT WAS NOT WORKING for almost 3 full quarters.

Definition of insanity.

 

[Sydla]

Elliott at the half had 8 carries for like 52 yards. Cowboys went away from the run mostly on their own, not because Philly was stonewalling them and holding Elliott to like 3 yards a carry.

Twice inside the 10 yard line in the first half, they never even let Elliott touch the ball.

 

[landryscorner]

Same thing happened in the game against the packers with 3 straight passes in the redzone. Many of us were arguing last nite that if Romo would of been in there he would of changed the play no matter what play Linehan called. Just like Romo Dak needs to be the LEADER of this team and call those shots. I guarantee if Dak would of switched the play that for him the interception Zeke would of ran it in instead they callled 2 pass plays..just horrible the Offensive play calling has been bad since last game this one was no different. Okay so Philly was trying to stop the run so WHAT so was Green Bay and we ran all over them.

 

[Brooksey]

A couple of examples of the terrible situational playcalling that especially stand out in my mind:

• The end of the 2nd quarter when Dak threw the pick
• The drive in the third quarter where we went empty set on second and third down from the 5 yard line and had to settle for a FG
• The 3 and out and the end of the 4th quarter when we had tons of time and all three timeouts, yet went totally one-dimensional

All inexcusable. No logic to that at all.

 

[jobberone]

But you would think that would call for more screens and slot receiver passes

That did not happen

They were blowing up the sprint outs, etc so I'd guess they were going to take the screens away. Philly has a very aggressive defense and they had played the short game all day long. Finally it was getting to the offense and Philly took the lead.

I said they had to open it up and go deep to win because of this. And fortunately they trusted (whether they wanted to or not they had to) Dak enough to unleash the longer routes. And they started going to Beasley and the others some. They just had to beat the blitz to wait for the patterns to open. The rest is history.

That's a good Philly team and they are going to get tougher as the season continues. They are going to have to turn Wentz loose as well....at least some.

Sometimes you just have to beat the blitz and make them pay. That's what we did.

 

[ilykdrama]

You guys are hilarious.

 

[ConstantReboot]

Yes that was bad playing calling. Where were the quick screens and slants to keep the blitzing Eagles honest?

 

[Blackspider214]

Play calling didn't change in OT

Team went down and scored a TD

What changed at the end of the game and OT was to quit force feeding Dez. Our offense is stagnant when that happens. Dak started to finally find TWill and Beasley. Even Butler.

 

[DandyDon52]

Eagles did not stop the Cowboys run game, this is a fallacy. Cowboys chose not to run. All the 3 and outs were proof of that, Cowboys became one dimensional and that added to Dak's stress. Heck, Dak runs 12 hard yards for a first down then Linehan calls a pass play right after that, the guy could barely breathe, so lucky that off target pass was not also intercepted. Cowboys were too pass happy last night. Whether the pass was not working due to poor execution or being one dimensional, the point being missed was that IT WAS NOT WORKING for almost 3 full quarters.

Definition of insanity.

yeah bat, EE had only 22 carries, that is like 5 per qtr.
Should have had more mainly in redzone.
Dak had 39 passes, that is way too many, need to keep that at 29 or less, unless more are to EE like I think 3 were in this game.

Eagles didnt run enough either, sproles only had 15 carries, and he was killing us.

also 14 targets to dez is way too much.
We were doing fine without him, and if he now plays, dont "target" him, let dak choose to throw to him , just like
the others.
let dak just find the open guy, like the td pass to witten.

 

[ConstantReboot]

yeah bat, EE had only 22 carries, that is like 5 per qtr.
Should have had more mainly in redzone.
Dak had 39 passes, that is way too many, need to keep that at 29 or less, unless more are to EE like I think 3 were in this game.

Eagles didnt run enough either, sproles only had 15 carries, and he was killing us.

also 14 targets to dez is way too much.
We were doing fine without him, and if he now plays, dont "target" him, let dak choose to throw to him , just like
the others.
let dak just find the open guy, like the td pass to witten.

I think Dez was one reason why Dak was off his game. We focused on getting Dez the ball too much even when double teamed.

 

[Tommy]

When it works it is great playcalling when it doesn't its not.

I have been warning people what would happen if we ran into a team that could stop our run. GB failed. Eagles did not.

Without the threat of the run all those PA looks that Dak has relied on dried up. He wilted under the blitz. It was a good game plan. Expect to see it from other defenses. CLE cannot pull it off but PIT might.

They don't care. They will blame the play calling again.

 

[DandyDon52]

I think Dez was one reason why Dak was off his game. We focused on getting Dez the ball too much even when double teamed.

well think about it, dak and dez have not played much together, it was dez's 2nd game?
dez had not been playing.

So with that to consider, 14 targets is too much for Dez.
maybe later on after they play more games together but not at this point.
Dez did make 2 big plays, so that helped.
But it would be better to just let dak choose who to throw to and not force it to any one wr.