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I was just over at cowboyszone reading an article by the candle man himself on some very interesting routes he noticed our WR's running during TC. I hadn't seen it mentioned anywhere prior to this, but it seems that Jimmy Robinson is putting in quite a few triple move routes such as a slant and go out route.
Two key points he brought up were that a triple move is really nice to throw off an aggressive cornerback and that you must believe that your offensive line will give you the time to pull it off if its an actual route rather than a decoy.
Of course my first thoughts were to the aggressive CB who likes to jump routes. We've got two of them in this division, Asante and Hall. I profess ignorance to the propensity of Nnamdi to do the same. IIRC, Aaron Ross of the Giants kind of plays the same style. So at least four games this season we'll come up against CB's who play a high risk/high reward style. Keeping them guessing and off of their game is an edge to exploit that works to our advantage. It makes the entire secondary a half step slower.
One thing I think that Vela overlooked that really plays against an aggressive secondary is Romo's shoulder shake to move the safety around. We saw it go bad this past week with Weddle taking the ball, but there have been plenty of times where Romo has been able to move them around or get them out of position by a step. That one step is all that is needed. On a corner/post/corner with the shoulder shake coming at the transition from the first corner to post route, you can get double coverage reduced to single coverage when the WR goes back outside if either the safety or CB bite on the shoulder/route change provided they see the shoulder shake even if Romo is staring down the WR.
This of course is all predicated on the offensive line keeping the pocket clean or Romo moving away from pressure.
Its just something I'm going to be looking for tomorrow night. Link to the article:
http://www.cowboyszone.com/2011/08/strange-fruit-from-cowboys-receiver.html
Two key points he brought up were that a triple move is really nice to throw off an aggressive cornerback and that you must believe that your offensive line will give you the time to pull it off if its an actual route rather than a decoy.
Of course my first thoughts were to the aggressive CB who likes to jump routes. We've got two of them in this division, Asante and Hall. I profess ignorance to the propensity of Nnamdi to do the same. IIRC, Aaron Ross of the Giants kind of plays the same style. So at least four games this season we'll come up against CB's who play a high risk/high reward style. Keeping them guessing and off of their game is an edge to exploit that works to our advantage. It makes the entire secondary a half step slower.
One thing I think that Vela overlooked that really plays against an aggressive secondary is Romo's shoulder shake to move the safety around. We saw it go bad this past week with Weddle taking the ball, but there have been plenty of times where Romo has been able to move them around or get them out of position by a step. That one step is all that is needed. On a corner/post/corner with the shoulder shake coming at the transition from the first corner to post route, you can get double coverage reduced to single coverage when the WR goes back outside if either the safety or CB bite on the shoulder/route change provided they see the shoulder shake even if Romo is staring down the WR.
This of course is all predicated on the offensive line keeping the pocket clean or Romo moving away from pressure.
Its just something I'm going to be looking for tomorrow night. Link to the article:
http://www.cowboyszone.com/2011/08/strange-fruit-from-cowboys-receiver.html
