Roy's long TD

[JohnsKey19]

Very clever play design and risky. If you watch it, everyone else sells the run hard even the RB and other WRs/TEs. Romo doesn't carry the play-action so i'm guessing it was a fake delayed draw. It turns out to be a 1 route pass play - a quick slant to Roy. Major props to Roy because if he doesn't quickly beat the jam at the LOS, Romo has to eat the ball or simply throw it away. The design worked as the FS and LBs all cheated up playing the run leaving noone in Roy's path once he beat the CB's jam.

 

[BEMYDADJERRY]

that's why it is so important to establish the run.....once you run the ball and make yards doing it...it open up the throwing game big for us.....

 

[casmith07]

that's why it is so important to establish the run.....once you run the ball and make yards doing it...it open up the throwing game big for us.....

:clap2:

This is all most of us have been saying about Garrett's game plans. We don't expect to run the ball 35 times like Tennessee, but you have to "keep the defense honest" and in this case, the Texans got too honest and cheated up.

Easy play for a big TD.

 

[jzcowboy]

That's a play you set up in the 1st and 2nd quarters. Then in the picture study on the sideline, you see how that corner is playing and get feedback from Roy. Agreed it is risky, but I'm sure Garrett had that play circled sometime in the 2nd quarter.

 

[tupperware]

:clap2:

This is all most of us have been saying about Garrett's game plans. We don't expect to run the ball 35 times like Tennessee, but you have to "keep the defense honest" and in this case, the Texans got too honest and cheated up.

Easy play for a big TD.

You don't really make the defense play honest by running the ball, you make them play honest by running the ball effectively.

 

[Jarv]

that's why it is so important to establish the run.....once you run the ball and make yards doing it...it open up the throwing game big for us.....

Ding, ding, ding...Winner !

 

[casmith07]

You don't really make the defense play honest by running the ball, you make them play honest by running the ball effectively.

A reasonable person could infer that from reading the posts. Excuse me for not laying it out with every single detail.

Should we then say running it effectively on obvious running downs, as well as throughout the first half in order to set up the play action for the second half?

Good grief.

 

[tupperware]

A reasonable person could infer that from reading the posts. Excuse me for not laying it out with every single detail.

Should we then say running it effectively on obvious running downs, as well as throughout the first half in order to set up the play action for the second half?

Good grief.

You do have to lay it out. Obviously, we've had games where we just couldn't run the ball on the opposing defense and everyone says "Oh but we didn't run the ball enough!"

Good grief.

 

[casmith07]

You do have to lay it out. Obviously, we've had games where we just couldn't run the ball on the opposing defense and everyone says "Oh but we didn't run the ball enough!"

Good grief.

Shouldn't you be somewhere predicting us to lose?

 

[Doomsday101]

:clap2:

This is all most of us have been saying about Garrett's game plans. We don't expect to run the ball 35 times like Tennessee, but you have to "keep the defense honest" and in this case, the Texans got too honest and cheated up.

Easy play for a big TD.

I agree. Dallas ran the ball effectively not great, Barber had 3.2 per carry in the game

 

[Yeagermeister]

Is that the same play that got called back on the Barron hold vs Wash?

 

[tupperware]

Shouldn't you be somewhere predicting us to lose?

Way to go OT, bro. Dunno we'll see how I feel when a prediction thread gets made for the Titans game. If we play like we did this past Sunday, we can beat any team. But that's the problem.

 

[zrinkill]

Shouldn't you be somewhere predicting us to lose?

 

[JBell]

Good post OP. Red can look like a genius at times.

 

[tupperware]

 

[Baileyneverfailey]

Yesterday showed exactly why a balance of run and pass is so important. You run it effectively, the other team's safeties have to cheat up to help. If you're testing them downfield, the safeties can't cheat up quite as much because they have to respect the over the top passing game.

People think of terms like 8 in the box, but sometimes both safeties cheating up only about 5 yards because they don't want to give up a big play makes a big difference.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

You don't really make the defense play honest by running the ball, you make them play honest by running the ball effectively.

I don't really agree with this. Obviously, the better you run the ball, the more you can do in the passing game. However, I think you have to run the ball regardless of success. It's not about how well you run it. It's about spacing and how you force the defense to play. I think you have to run the ball regardless.

 

[tupperware]

I don't really agree with this. Obviously, the better you run the ball, the more you can do in the passing game. However, I think you have to run the ball regardless of success. It's not about how well you run it. It's about spacing and how you force the defense to play. I think you have to run the ball regardless.

They're not going to respect it nearly as much if you're not breaking off any runs. The hesitation caused is the sole purpose for using the play action and if they aren't hesitating it isn't doing its job.

 

[DanTanna]

That vid shows Roy has stamina. The defender was catching up to Roy quickly, but ran out of juice while Roy kept trucking.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

But if you're not running the football effectively than that play doesn't work. That's the key. Its not how many times Garretts run. Its if the Cowboys run it effectively. They did yesterday. No reason to stick with the run if you're not going anywhere and the opposing teams corners suck.