Running scared

[Zimmy Lives]

Garrett needs to sack up. He is the head coach, not Romo. For those who compare him to Landry, I simply laugh. Even the great Roger Staubach could not call his own plays. He just executed in spectacular fashion.

Um, not always. Roger was not unlike Tony in his ability to improvise. I'll have to look up some of my old Cowboys books for documentation. I also had the pleasure of working for him and recall conversations of how Coach Landry would be cross with him because he didn't always run the called play.

 

[Plankton]

Um, not always. Roger was not unlike Tony in his ability to improvise. I'll have to look up some of my old Cowboys books for documentation. I also had the pleasure of working for him and recall conversations of how Coach Landry would be cross with him because he didn't always run the called play.

Landry did call the plays - Staubach didn't always run what he called.

Some of the biggest, most seminal plays in Cowboy history are when Staubach went off script: the TD to Ron Sellers that beat the 49ers in the 1972 playoffs, the TD on the post route to Drew Pearson that beat the Rams in the 1973 playoffs, the Hail Mary pass to Pearson against the Vikings in 1975, the game winning (and his last regular season) TD pass to Tony Hill against the Commanders in 1979. Staubach was a winner who bred confidence in his entire team. They never thought that they were out of a game.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

Landry did call the plays - Staubach didn't always run what he called.

Some of the biggest, most seminal plays in Cowboy history are when Staubach went off script: the TD to Ron Sellers that beat the 49ers in the 1972 playoffs, the TD on the post route to Drew Pearson that beat the Rams in the 1973 playoffs, the Hail Mary pass to Pearson against the Vikings in 1975, the game winning (and his last regular season) TD pass to Tony Hill against the Commanders in 1979. Staubach was a winner who bred confidence in his entire team. They never thought that they were out of a game.

Good recall, Plankton. I'm too old to pull out all the successful Roger improvised plays off the top of my head.

 

[theSHOW]

Murray is showing too much political correctness for my liking. He needs to show more frustration Ala Dez after plays like this. Go to the sidleline, pick up a phone and throw a fit to get the rock more in short yard/field situations. Make a beeline to Linehan and make sure he knows. OT to audible anymore as well. This spread offense from within the 5 is ridiculous. Line upand hit someone. We are so soft mentally on offense it's not even funny and that starts with the HC & QB.

He doesn't need to act like an immature baby when he doesn't get the ball. But he should get it. Dallas would have had 2 more touchdowns and had a shot to win the game if Murray was handed the ball when the team was close.

 

[theSHOW]

Landry did call the plays - Staubach didn't always run what he called.

Some of the biggest, most seminal plays in Cowboy history are when Staubach went off script: the TD to Ron Sellers that beat the 49ers in the 1972 playoffs, the TD on the post route to Drew Pearson that beat the Rams in the 1973 playoffs, the Hail Mary pass to Pearson against the Vikings in 1975, the game winning (and his last regular season) TD pass to Tony Hill against the Commanders in 1979. Staubach was a winner who bred confidence in his entire team. They never thought that they were out of a game.

what play did Landry call instead of the hail mary. That's hard to believe anything but the HAIL

BTW it was Drew Pearson who caught the bomb at the 5 yd and ran it it clutching the ball.

 

[Doomsday101]

I don't care if Romo checked out of the call fact is you still throw it away when there is nothing open. You don't force it and that is not on the HC. Teams do pass from the 1 NY did it 3 fricken times in their game and I doubt anyone would call their HC soft or stupid. I want Romo to have the ability to check out of a play if he has to but part of the responsibility he has as the QB is to throw it away and come back on the next play and he failed to do it.

 

[50cent]

He doesn't need to act like an immature baby when he doesn't get the ball. But he should get it. Dallas would have had 2 more touchdowns and had a shot to win the game if Murray was handed the ball when the team was close.

Calling out teammates isn't always about being immature. Like I said, Manning has been called out in a mature manner. Ray Lewis called out teammates. It's called leadership.

 

[Plankton]

what play did Landry call instead of the hail mary. That's hard to believe anything but the HAIL

BTW it was Drew Pearson who caught the bomb at the 5 yd and ran it it clutching the ball.

I said it was Pearson.

When the play was run, there was 32 seconds left in the game. Landry sent in a play for Pearson to run a deep in route. Staubach told Pearson to run a pump and go, similar to what he ran when Clint Longley threw the game winning touchdown pass against the Commanders on Thanksgiving in 1974.

 

[starfrombirth]

Murray is showing too much political correctness for my liking. He needs to show more frustration Ala Dez after plays like this. Go to the sidleline, pick up a phone and throw a fit to get the rock more in short yard/field situations. Make a beeline to Linehan and make sure he knows. OT to audible anymore as well. This spread offense from within the 5 is ridiculous. Line upand hit someone. We are so soft mentally on offense it's not even funny and that starts with the HC & QB.

The spread is fine. It opens up running lanes. The trick is to actually run from it.

 

[50cent]

The spread is fine. It opens up running lanes. The trick is to actually run from it.

No the spread.is not . fine. It give Romo opportunities to see what he believes is an opening to pass. Thus audibling out of perfectly good down and distances. Line up in jumbo formation (no receivers) and run. The spread is the devil deep.in other teams territory. Take any chance that Romo might screw it up put of the equation.

 

[mrmojo]

what play did Landry call instead of the hail mary. That's hard to believe anything but the HAIL

BTW it was Drew Pearson who caught the bomb at the 5 yd and ran it it clutching the ball.[

Landry did call the plays - Staubach didn't always run what he called.

Some of the biggest, most seminal plays in Cowboy history are when Staubach went off script: the TD to Ron Sellers that beat the 49ers in the 1972 playoffs, the TD on the post route to Drew Pearson that beat the Rams in the 1973 playoffs, the Hail Mary pass to Pearson against the Vikings in 1975, the game winning (and his last regular season) TD pass to Tony Hill against the Commanders in 1979. Staubach was a winner who bred confidence in his entire team. They never thought that they were out of a game.

Man all those memorable, clutch, historic NFL plays all involve Drew.....how he isn't in the HOF is beyond me. Nice recap.

 

[MissouriCowboy]

Murray is one of mine favorite players on team. All class.

 

[Cowboyz88]

Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines ?

 

[DC Cowboy]

This play was one of the stupidest decisions I can remember. Sounds like JG was on board with it also. It is an easy run and I was screaming it before the play.
They often times try to outsmart the other team only to outsmart themselves.

Crap.

not sure about outsmart but I would called it dumb and soft.