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I told someone I'd look at the coaches film but I've been gone all day and most of my responses have been by phone and it really sucks. I looked at the condensed film to get an overall impression then I was going to look at the All-22 then go to the stats then back to the film and make a report. I just don't have the time tonite to do that and the admiral is giving me the 'look'. I have my back to her but I know she is doing 'it'.
I can't promise but I'll try to do something comprehensive tomorrow. Sorry.
I made some quick notes then abandoned them because this game wasn't as hard to look at as I thought. Again this is just a really quick eyeball look at it so my thoughts may change if I get the time to do a hardcore review. And a general disclaimer is I'm no better at this than the average fan so take it FWIW.
1. Thank God for Tony Romo
2. Ditto
3. The reason we didn't run was because we had a hard time doing so. The run Murray made for 27 was great blocking by the interior and Murray hitting the hole hard and cutting back. Murray is a very solid NFL RB. The better reason was because Romo pretty much threw the ball at will. They didn't make any great plays defensively except the INT which was a pretty good play on a not too bad of a throw to a less than aggressive WR not snatching the ball and letting the D guy do so. I still cringe on that intermediate out esp to the right as teams seem to play that well and jump it too much for me to like.
4. Without the film it did appear MN smelled out some running plays. They disguised their run blitzes well and often brought 5 or more on several runs in the first half. I didn't look very hard at the 2nd half because we didn't run much. When we did it didn't look pretty. But I'll look again.
5. So how come we didn't score more than 27? Well 27 ain't bad but it barely won this game and 7 points were defensive gifts. We make too many mistakes that's why. I'll bet when I look at the stats I'll see 6 or more dropped passes. Romo threw by my eyeball about three bad passes and at least one probably should have been caught. BTW, Romo was I think 7 of 9 on the GWD and one was dropped and he threw the other away.
6. Drives stalled with dropped passes and/or sacks and/or penalties and/or bad calls on three occasions. I never question refereeing in W&Ls but this one seemed to go mostly the wrong way including hits to the head, hits on defenseless players, bad spots us good spots them yada. I'll stop there. So essentially we stopped ourselves all but once.
7. We don't tackle well consistently.
8. Our pass defense looked reasonable without looking at numbers. They hit some passes but we won the passing battle by eyeball easily. It will probably look worse on the coaches film but it wasn't as bad as I thought Sunday. I still need a better look on all of this.
9. Not the best talent out there on defense but they are scrappers.
10. Oh, we ran the ball once or twice and didn't get necessary yardage but I do think one might have been a bad spot. Still, we just don't run block well much too often. I'm looking forward to see where the running plays went and the film to see why they didn't go anywhere.
Again, we didn't really need the running game against MN. We needed to catch the ball and not make critical holds, hands to the face, offensive PI, take helmets off after offensive PI, or go backwards in or near the RZ.
A conversation in another thread was about why didn't we run more. Well you have a partial answer. But it is not THE answer. There will be games where we will need to run to balance their D out, set up the run, take it in from the 1 yard line, etc. I'll look at the film and see what I can say about that but there weren't a lot of run attempts to make much of even an uneducated opinion.
I can't promise but I'll try to do something comprehensive tomorrow. Sorry.
I made some quick notes then abandoned them because this game wasn't as hard to look at as I thought. Again this is just a really quick eyeball look at it so my thoughts may change if I get the time to do a hardcore review. And a general disclaimer is I'm no better at this than the average fan so take it FWIW.
1. Thank God for Tony Romo
2. Ditto
3. The reason we didn't run was because we had a hard time doing so. The run Murray made for 27 was great blocking by the interior and Murray hitting the hole hard and cutting back. Murray is a very solid NFL RB. The better reason was because Romo pretty much threw the ball at will. They didn't make any great plays defensively except the INT which was a pretty good play on a not too bad of a throw to a less than aggressive WR not snatching the ball and letting the D guy do so. I still cringe on that intermediate out esp to the right as teams seem to play that well and jump it too much for me to like.
4. Without the film it did appear MN smelled out some running plays. They disguised their run blitzes well and often brought 5 or more on several runs in the first half. I didn't look very hard at the 2nd half because we didn't run much. When we did it didn't look pretty. But I'll look again.
5. So how come we didn't score more than 27? Well 27 ain't bad but it barely won this game and 7 points were defensive gifts. We make too many mistakes that's why. I'll bet when I look at the stats I'll see 6 or more dropped passes. Romo threw by my eyeball about three bad passes and at least one probably should have been caught. BTW, Romo was I think 7 of 9 on the GWD and one was dropped and he threw the other away.
6. Drives stalled with dropped passes and/or sacks and/or penalties and/or bad calls on three occasions. I never question refereeing in W&Ls but this one seemed to go mostly the wrong way including hits to the head, hits on defenseless players, bad spots us good spots them yada. I'll stop there. So essentially we stopped ourselves all but once.
7. We don't tackle well consistently.
8. Our pass defense looked reasonable without looking at numbers. They hit some passes but we won the passing battle by eyeball easily. It will probably look worse on the coaches film but it wasn't as bad as I thought Sunday. I still need a better look on all of this.
9. Not the best talent out there on defense but they are scrappers.
10. Oh, we ran the ball once or twice and didn't get necessary yardage but I do think one might have been a bad spot. Still, we just don't run block well much too often. I'm looking forward to see where the running plays went and the film to see why they didn't go anywhere.
Again, we didn't really need the running game against MN. We needed to catch the ball and not make critical holds, hands to the face, offensive PI, take helmets off after offensive PI, or go backwards in or near the RZ.
A conversation in another thread was about why didn't we run more. Well you have a partial answer. But it is not THE answer. There will be games where we will need to run to balance their D out, set up the run, take it in from the 1 yard line, etc. I'll look at the film and see what I can say about that but there weren't a lot of run attempts to make much of even an uneducated opinion.
