Report: Matt Cassel 'highly likely' to start Week 7 for Cowboys

[Idgit]

What ??? Cassel QBing this team to the playoffs? Are you serious or are you reading too much JRR Tolkien?

When that team was the Patriots, he was capable of it. Because they support their struggling QB by picking up the level of play everywhere else. If you're getting a bunch of false starts and holding calls and drops and negative runs, you're sunk.

 

[CCBoy]

When that team was the Patriots, he was capable of it. Because they support their struggling QB by picking up the level of play everywhere else. If you're getting a bunch of false starts and holding calls and drops and negative runs, you're sunk.

100.0: percentage of plays in the Patriots playbook that involve picks or rubs. This is a terrific strategy to employ with diminutive wide receivers who win with quickness. When a receiver can accelerate quickly, a pick has the potential to create necessary separation. With big wideouts who get up to speed slowly, these are less effective, as defenders can close the gap that the pick has just created.

Under Jason Garrett (as well as under Norv Turner and Ernie Zampese, under who he learned his system), Dallas has preferred the latter kind of receiver, and has collected a cadre of wideouts who have the height and physicality to win on the outside. The poster child, of course, is Dez Bryant.. who can body up defenders to make catches even when he;'s not open. The exception, of course, is Cole Beasley, who is a clone of the Pats' Edelman and Amendola.There are certainly times when the Cowboys use stacks to help him to get open underneath but, after watching how effective New England's jitterbugs are when a pick gives them a bit of space, I'd like to see a couple of the chapters on pick plays from the Patriots' playbook (and there must be many of them; the pick play IS their passing offense) added to Scott Linehan's arsenal.

http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2015/10/12/9501003/patriots-cowboys-the-day-after-by-the-numbers

 

[RunDMC]

What ??? Cassel QBing this team to the playoffs? Are you serious or are you reading too much JRR Tolkien?

I'm saying he did that before in 2010. I'm in no way saying he can take this team to the playoffs, but he can help us win a couple of games? Maybe, maybe not, but he gives a chance than Mr. 11 game losing streak.

 

[Idgit]

100.0: percentage of plays in the Patriots playbook that involve picks or rubs. This is a terrific strategy to employ with diminutive wide receivers who win with quickness. When a receiver can accelerate quickly, a pick has the potential to create necessary separation. With big wideouts who get up to speed slowly, these are less effective, as defenders can close the gap that the pick has just created.

Under Jason Garrett (as well as under Norv Turner and Ernie Zampese, under who he learned his system), Dallas has preferred the latter kind of receiver, and has collected a cadre of wideouts who have the height and physicality to win on the outside. The poster child, of course, is Dez Bryant.. who can body up defenders to make catches even when he;'s not open. The exception, of course, is Cole Beasley, who is a clone of the Pats' Edelman and Amendola.There are certainly times when the Cowboys use stacks to help him to get open underneath but, after watching how effective New England's jitterbugs are when a pick gives them a bit of space, I'd like to see a couple of the chapters on pick plays from the Patriots' playbook (and there must be many of them; the pick play IS their passing offense) added to Scott Linehan's arsenal.

http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2015/10/12/9501003/patriots-cowboys-the-day-after-by-the-numbers

With Dunbar and Whitehead and Beasley, we had the personnel to take advantage of it. Randle can maybe do it, too. He's a good WR. I've said it before, but as long as it's not getting called, I'd be doing it all the time. Especially right now, with Dez out and no downfield pressure on the defense at all.

Heck, let's do it with our TEs. Bunch them all up and just run over defenders. Throw your hands up and look at the QB while doing it. Who, us? No! We were playing the ball. Really!

 

[CCBoy]

With Dunbar and Whitehead and Beasley, we had the personnel to take advantage of it. Randle can maybe do it, too. He's a good WR. I've said it before, but as long as it's not getting called, I'd be doing it all the time. Especially right now, with Dez out and no downfield pressure on the defense at all.

Heck, let's do it with our TEs. Bunch them all up and just run over defenders. Throw your hands up and look at the QB while doing it. Who, us? No! We were playing the ball. Really!

The ol' New England, get away with everything one can...before it becomes another Cowboy NFL rule.

 

[Idgit]

The ol' New England, get away with everything one can...before it becomes another Cowboy NFL rule.

Best way to get the pick plays to stop is to have the Cowboys start running them. We could all it The Beasley Rule.