per Dungy... Romo missed Woodson?

[tyke1doe]

I don't really care if Romo missed him or saw him. My entire problem with that play is why we chose to pass the ball on 1st and goal @ the 1. An Extremely stupid call. It is the root of the problem with this offensive unit. Garrett has no idea how to coach Romo or how to call plays fir him to be successful through rough patches. When Romo is on that is a Touchdown or a do over, on off days, like Romo was clearly having yesterday, the pick is actually going to happen. Garrett will never recognize this and needs to go.

I blame all three losses not on Romo but on Garrett.

Giants loss - up by four, we should be running left especially since we were gashing and tiring the Giants defensive line. What do we do? Pass down field. Interception. Giants score a touchdown. Instead of being up by 11, we're playing catch up.

Broncos loss - up by 10 in hostile environment. 3 and 17 deep in your own territory. Safe run play? Nnnoooo. Not Garrett. Pass, Romo hit, fumble. Denver scores. Shifts the entire momentum of the game.

Packers game - Barber is running and running well. We've establish that so enough of that, Garrett says. Pass. Incomplete. Kick. Miss field goal.
We have three good backs. Hostile crowd. Defense doing great just to keep us in the game - first no score, then down by three then down by a manageable 10. Do we run? Do we keep running? Nnnooo. Not Garrett. Pass. Pass. Hit. Fumble. Packers score.

:bang2:

If you know your quarterback isn't on target, why not use one of the three very good backs we have to run the ball. Keep running and play field position. Understand the game and the flow of the game and try to win at the end.

Garrett is frustrating. :bang2:

 

[tyke1doe]

...bottom line is that Crayton saw it...

What difference does that make? Crayton isn't throwing the ball. Romo has to see that corner blitz, especially when the Packers have been blitzing all day.
I'm not knocking Romo, but he should have picked up that blitz too. It wasn't on his blind side. If he simply scans the field, he picks it up and secures the ball before he gets hit. Crayton is irrelevant to the scenario.

 

[kramskoi]

The next time any of you guys see an OT block outside to take on a blitzing CB, let me know.

Flo did what he's supposed to do in protection.

Whenever a CB blitzes, it's the QB's responsibility and maybe he gets help from a RB if there is one....that's the whole concept...Romo sees the CB blitz and hits the guy in the open for a nice gain while a safety slides over for the tackle after a first down.

You don't ask your OT to block a CB.

...the only reason why i brought this up was because of Dungy's comment and a similar play with similar result in Denver, when it looked like Bennett was trying to tell Romo something pre-snap...Aikman thought that Adams was the culprit but i'm conflicted by what i saw from Crayton...Romo seemed locked on Williams the entire way...Jones was on the wrong side to pick up a CB blitz...

 

[cowboyz]

Hopefully someone can post video for these two blitz plays.


i went back and watched that play. a lot of things happened. very well designed blitz scheme.


it was a zone blitz from the left side with both the cb and ilb coming, and the right side dropping back.

on offense left side, witten-flozell-kosier

on defense, olb matthews is across from witten, dt is between flozell and kozier.

so at the snap the dt crosses kosiers face. and the ilb takes on flozell on his inside shoulder. the olb takes on witten with an outside move.

so it looks like 3 on 3. but then woodson comes in blitzing between the olb and ilb. uh oh.

on the defensive side the dt continues crossing and takes on gurode, leaving kosier standing there next to flozell.


very hard to tell who's supposed to pick the cb up without knowing their pass protection scheme. flozell/romo/felix/kosier?



the right safety on roy's side drifts to the middle because of the blitz. leaving roy one-on-one, which is where romo looks the entire time.



now compare and contrast to a dallas cb blitz on the previous drive which allowed a TD. this is what i see as the big difference between pittsburgh and dallas. maybe it's wade's scheme, but you see pittsburgh blitzes create a clear path for one guy by moving everyone else out of the way.

on dallas' blitz. they do a cb zone blitz from the left side too.

on the left side ware/bowen? do a stunt with ware coming inside over the top. ware takes a huge pathway because he runs around the TE going on a pass route. rilb brookings blitzes from the right side to the G/C gap.

scandrick blitzes from the left mid field.

bowen is taking on the OT/G but coming from the inside he takes an outside move instead of splitting the gap and collapsing the pocket, making scandrick's path wider. scandrick tries to go around the OT which is a farther path. and the OT easily picks him up.

because ware does a stunt, he takes a huge loop and is about 2 yds away from the center, essentially in no mans land for a while. so there's no inside gap for scandrick either.

and brookings doesn't collapse the pocket, but gets ridden from the right side to the left side.


maybe if it's executed properly it works, but it just seems like too many moving parts that aren't acting as a unit like the green bay blitz to create a clear lane to the qb.