Paying attention to offense is paying off

[percyhoward]

Can you remove all the non offensive touchdowns from all the rest of the teams as well?

We rank 10th in points per offensive possession.

 

[jobberone]

We're getting 2.19 points per drive which is 10th. That's based on 79 drives although I have us at 81 drives. Wouldn't make a lot of difference though.

 

[Vintage]

With the rule changes, its easier to score a bunch of points than it is to limit your opponent's scoring consistently. And when you have an elite QB (I'll pause for a few seconds for the detractors), it makes sense to try and maximize that side of the ball.

 

[percyhoward]

We're getting 2.19 points per drive which is 10th. That's based on 79 drives although I have us at 81 drives. Wouldn't make a lot of difference though.

There were a couple of kneel-down possessions that don't count against the team.

 

[The Quest for Six]

read somewhere the offense has six scoring drives of over 20 yards, not exactly a prolific offense..

 

[percyhoward]

read somewhere the offense has six scoring drives of over 20 yards, not exactly a prolific offense..

Don't know where you read that, but we had seven scoring drives of 40+ yards in the Broncos game alone.

We've had 27 scoring drives of 40 yards or more, which is 2nd only to the Broncos.

 

[Vintage]

Don't know where you read that, but we had seven scoring drives of 40+ yards in the Broncos game alone.

Maybe we had -1 the remaining 6 games....

 

[jobberone]

There were a couple of kneel-down possessions that don't count against the team.

Ok that makes sense. I didn't realize anyone counted those as 'drives'.

 

[Crown Royal]

The offence needs to be able to make teams pay for the blitz. The gameplay has been to blitz the ever loving hell out of the cowboys until they make a mistake or just don't get completions. Until we consistently get teams thinking better of that we will be less scary.

 

[Nightman]

They were also pretty conservative against KC and San Diego when Romo was hurting. The first half of the Philly game was pretty awful. Some have blamed the wind, but it seemed like they played the game in front of them. Philly was awful as well and there seemed to be little enthusiasm for opening it up and taking chances.

I don't think we will see many more games like the Denver game, but if they start clicking they should be a Top 8 offense.

 

[tico]

Read my sig..

Cowboys are averaging 18 points in three roard games. Not exactly parade worthy production.

Cowboys scoring is up because of turnovers, special teams, and fluke performance vs. the broncos. And we have improved in the red zone.

Road scoring..
@ KC 16
@ SD 14
@ Phi 17

Garrett with the conservative playcalling, it's like watching a old lady drive a muscle car in the slow lane.. Hit the pedal Carrot-Garrett

 

[big dog cowboy]

I'm more concerned with the defense. But they are playing better since the Denver game.

 

[Gameover]

Garrett with the conservative playcalling, it's like watching a old lady drive a muscle car in the slow lane.. Hit the pedal Carrot-Garrett

I blame the hundred million dollar QB more than Garrett's playcalling. Garrett's no longer calling plays anyway.

 

[Gameover]

Don't know where you read that, but we had seven scoring drives of 40+ yards in the Broncos game alone.

We've had 27 scoring drives of 40 yards or more, which is 2nd only to the Broncos.

What about 60-70 yard drives?

How do you explain the 18ppg road avg.?

 

[tico]

I blame the hundred million dollar QB more than Garrett's playcalling. Garrett's no longer calling plays anyway.

You really think he doesn't has his fingers in the playbook? Callahan going conservative? Romo going conservative? No that's JG bro!

 

[percyhoward]

What about 60-70 yard drives?

Those 10 yards make a surprising difference. For drives of 70+ yards, the Cowboys rank 13th in TD, after ranking 8th in 2012.

Move 10 yards farther down the field, and the numbers change considerably. Dallas ranks 4th in the NFL in touchdowns on drives of 60+ yards, after ranking 10th last year.

Compared to last year, to this point the offense has traded 2012's poor red zone performance and lots of yards and FG for an average long drive performance with not enough FG, but great in the red zone.