Pick Plays

[CATCH17]

I was watching Denver yesterday and anytime they needed short yardage or they were around the goal line you saw them run a lot of pick plays.

Evidently they aren't illegal if you block the DB in a 1 yard area.

Dallas and all 31 other teams need to be copying this strategy because it's almost impossible to stop.

 

[ajk23az]

From what I see, Denver WR aren't "blocking" right away, they are just getting in the way of the defender, so he has to take a step around him giving the targeted WR a little room, especially on those 3 yard flare routes.

Almost every good passing team seems to run them except us.

 

[dfense]

I was watching Denver yesterday and anytime they needed short yardage or they were around the goal line you saw them run a lot of pick plays.

Evidently they aren't illegal if you block the DB in a 1 yard area.

Dallas and all 31 other teams need to be copying this strategy because it's almost impossible to stop.

If you are familiar with Denver, there entire offensive philosophy is based on pick plays.

 

[CATCH17]

From what I see, Denver WR aren't "blocking" right away, they are just getting in the way of the defender, so he has to take a step around him giving the targeted WR a little room, especially on those 3 yard flare routes.

Almost every good passing team seems to run them except us.

Yeah it's almost impossible to stop.

You have to use Man Coverage against Manning to even stand a chance and when there receivers are running these routes that are making DB's run into each other it's impossible to stop.

If Dallas did this it could take this offense to another level. I just wish we'd try it you know? Play with some urgency and use these rules to our advantage.

 

[Idgit]

We actually do run them some, but, I agree, we should run them more. We had good luck running one to Dez late in the Thanksgiving day game, for example.

I'm not sure why the entire league (well, anyone with the QB to pull it off) isn't doing it more. Dallas, in particular, has good personnel to pull it off with the WRs we have and can get into the slot. Especially against a team like PHI, where the CBs have difficulty tackling well in space. I hope to see us try it a bit more often with Miles back, and if we continue to give Dez more chances in the slot.

 

[Direwolf63]

If you are familiar with Denver, there entire offensive philosophy is based on pick plays.

Right.

They are constantly running picks to get their guys free. They aren't being called by the refs, so what they are doing is legal.

 

[btcutter]

I was watching Denver yesterday and anytime they needed short yardage or they were around the goal line you saw them run a lot of pick plays.

Evidently they aren't illegal if you block the DB in a 1 yard area.

Dallas and all 31 other teams need to be copying this strategy because it's almost impossible to stop.

New England does the same. The last play where they scored the winning TD was a pick play to free Amendola.

 

[CATCH17]

Right.

They are constantly running picks to get their guys free. They aren't being called by the refs, so what they are doing is legal.

Because evidently you can pick a DB in a 1 yard window. That is how you get away with it.

With our big receivers and Witten we could spam this and nobody could stop it.

 

[blindzebra]

If we did it it would be a penalty.

And Denver does it way beyond the LOS. When they played us we were getting picked 5-10 yards downfield.

 

[xwalker]

Multiple teams have run pick plays against Dallas this season.

I agree that Dallas should do it more often.

 

[Fritsch_the_cat]

If we did it it would be a penalty.

And Denver does it way beyond the LOS. When they played us we were getting picked 5-10 yards downfield.

Aikman said yesterday that Green Bay also does it constantly but never gets called.

 

[CowboyGil]

It favors the offense, so why wouldn't they allow it? Goodell is probably giddy because a record number of TDs was scored yesterday.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

There are issues with pick plays.

Mainly that you can chuck the WR right to the ground if they are within 5 yards of the LOS. Perfectly legal. So if you try a pick play, the WR is engaging the DB and the DB can just chuck the WR down to the ground. That can take away 2 receivers on the play alone.

Denver's passing game is *not* based on pick plays. It's part of what they do, but they need to set them up with other plays because of the risk of the WR being chucked to the ground. Set it up with some other non-pick plays, then get the matchup you like (i.e. Welker on a poor coverage DB), run a pick play and catch the defense off-guard and watch Welker run free.





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[gimmesix]

Multiple teams have run pick plays against Dallas this season.

I agree that Dallas should do it more often.

I think we're gun shy about them because Witten gets penalties called against him often when he does them. Of course, that's one area of Witten's game he's not very good at. It supposed to look like the receiver is running his route, but Witten's always just looks like a pick.