PFF: ReFo: Bears @ Cowboys, Week 4

[Phoenix]

These guys are great, I think.

https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2012/10/02/refo-bears-at-cowboys-week-4/

After what looked like an inspirational opening-night victory in New York, the Cowboys have come crashing down to earth. Yes they won last week against Tampa Bay, but their hangover from the opening-night win culminated in their meltdown at home to the Chicago Bears. In a game that should have been close, the Cowboys’ offense conspired by hook or by crook to gift Chicago’s defense a pair of touchdowns that ensured this game turned into a comfortable victory. Chicago now finds itself in a tie for first place with the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC North.

Communication breakdowns and misreads have long been an unwanted feature of the Dallas offense, but they hit home hard this Monday night. Most of the time they lead to a loss of down or a loss of possession on a third down, but this week they led to turnovers and the turnovers led to scores. Without a misread by Dez Bryant, Charles Tillman doesn’t have a walk in touchdown. Without a dropped pass by Kevin Ogletree, Major Wright doesn’t have an interception. With some solid pass protection, Tony Romo has an easy dumpoff to Jason Witten rather than being hit and surrendering a pick-six. Taking your opportunities is what close football games are about. As the Bears took theirs and the Cowboys gave theirs away, the scoreboard ensured that this game would not be remembered as a close one.


Let’s take a look at some of the performances that turned the game, and some that are hidden by the few big plays that put this one away for Chicago.


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He recorded a sack and his hit on Romo caused an interception which Lance Briggs returned for a touchdown. This was most definitely a happy homecoming to Texas for former Longhorn Henry Melton.

 

[ufcrules1]

"holding him to account for very poor pass protection would be unfair"

I stopped reading right here^^ When you are inside your red zone at the 25 yard line and are guaranteed points, you have to protect the ball at all costs. Why? Because you are guaranteed freaking points! Live to play another down.
Blaming this on his line is ridiculous. They can't protect him 100% on every play. He has to use his head the same way Rodgers did against Seattle when he was sacked 9 freaking times and protected the ball on every one of them.

Romo for the SECOND week did not protect the ball in the redzone when his team was guaranteed points. All he had to do was take the sack there when he was in trouble.

 

[InDakWeTrust]

This loss was just like the Detroit one. This team struggles, but the defense keeps us somewhat in the game. We were on cloud 9 after the Ware strip sack. Then we refuse to run the ball regardless. I can pretty much tell the play being run before the ball is snapped. This team needs some infusion of running the ball. Our offense was better last year with an offensive line that was actually better than this one. Monday night was disappointing from all aspects on the offense.

This team needs to step back and redo their philosophy offensively. Our Defense is keeping us in every game, but the offensive mistakes are making us lose games. It all starts with the Oline and failure to find how to successfully run the ball. Spread other teams out and run stretch or zones. DeMarco would kill in a one cut scheme.

 

[Oh_Canada]

"holding him to account for very poor pass protection would be unfair"

I stopped reading right here^^ When you are inside your red zone at the 25 yard line and are guaranteed points, you have to protect the ball at all costs. Why? Because you are guaranteed freaking points! Live to play another down.
Blaming this on his line is ridiculous. They can't protect him 100% on every play. He has to use his head the same way Rodgers did against Seattle when he was sacked 9 freaking times and protected the ball on every one of them.

Romo for the SECOND week did not protect the ball in the redzone when his team was guaranteed points. All he had to do was take the sack there when he was in trouble.

Agreed-it's like people expect Romo not to be touched. All QB's get hit, and the Bears do it often. All things considered, the Oline held up pretty well in pass protection Monday night. Romonowski said it best on Sirius radio, the guy just isn't patient enough to dink and dunk the ball down the field.

 

[Numbers921]

At a certain point you have to wonder how this awful coaching staff has impacted Romo's inability to play situational football. Of course, Jason Garrett is the easiest guy to point to. Well the OC that Romo has played under the most has no idea of situations in games, so how he can help Romo? Then there's Wade Wilson. Has Wilson done anything positive during his entire tenure as the QB coach? Stephen McGee was a disaster and I've never heard anything about him aside from being busted with HGH. Nothing about how he helped any QB we've had here get better including Tony. I guess he's on the payroll because he's a former 90s player too.

 

[jobberone]

"holding him to account for very poor pass protection would be unfair"

I stopped reading right here^^ When you are inside your red zone at the 25 yard line and are guaranteed points, you have to protect the ball at all costs. Why? Because you are guaranteed freaking points! Live to play another down.
Blaming this on his line is ridiculous. They can't protect him 100% on every play. He has to use his head the same way Rodgers did against Seattle when he was sacked 9 freaking times and protected the ball on every one of them.

Romo for the SECOND week did not protect the ball in the redzone when his team was guaranteed points. All he had to do was take the sack there when he was in trouble.

I think you remain unreasonable. ALL QBs put the ball on the ground and throw INTs at times when pressured. And that includes the RZ. That's why it's so important to get pressure on the QB and if you don't most NFL QBs are going to complete passes. You are correct if you say the most important job a QB has is to protect the ball. But some of you seem to think Tony is the only QB to turn the ball over.

Tony is having a bad start. This is unlike him even for his early years. So if you say he has too many INTs I will agree. The question to ask is why and what can we do about it. The answer is we need to run the ball effectively enough so we have a balanced defense to attack. We need to stop making mistakes that put us in positions to have to pass; at least not as often. We need to protect Tony better. Our WRs need to stop dropping passes and running the wrong routes. It's been a perfect storm for us to do poor offensively and turn the ball over. There is no hidden secret as to why we are having problems.

 

[RS12]

Disconnect’ an Understatement

At this point Cowboy fans, coaches and players must simply be tearing their hair out. In spite of consistency in personnel at key positions, the hallmark of this offense continues to be miscommunications and disconnects between players. At some point you have to wonder when this will be picked up on as a recurring problem to the extent that it costs someone their job.

This is 100% on point, and after all this time I cant think of one good reason for it.

 

[Numbers921]

This is 100% on point, and after all this time I cant think of one good reason for it.

I can. The guy who's been controlling at least half of this football team since 2007.