Scout's Eye: Assessing Moore, Another Strong Day For Free; Other Thoughts

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By Bryan Broaddus
Football Analyst/Scout

@BryanBroaddus



IRVING, Texas – It’s interesting to think that, for all the take about these last two games being meaningless, this will be some important tape for the Cowboys to study in the offseason.

We got our all-important first look at Kellen Moore on Sunday, and now comes time for the all-important film session of his game. Moore has another opportunity to impress this weekend when he starts against Washington, so it’s important go back and digest his performance in Buffalo.

There’s plenty of other notes worth inspecting – including the defense’s troubles against Tyrod Taylor, as well as several other interesting developments from the tape.

This might be a disappointing season, but we’ll still miss it in the coming months when we’re counting the days until football returns. So let’s jump into the tape for one of our last remaining opportunities.

Let’s check it out:

link/http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...-moore-another-strong-day-free-other-thoughts

 

[DandyDon52]

"I was wondering how Rex Ryan took Jason Witten out of the game on Sunday. Film showed it was the Dallas coaches that did it for him. I had an idea that the plan would be to try and help Kellen Moore as much as possible, and they did that with “max” protection. Jason Garrett said they went in this direction because they wanted to firm things up protection-wise because of the different looks the Bills like to use."

Kellen had more time to throw but less options.
I thought many times he should have and could have taken more time to look over the field and find the best target.

 

[Redball Express]

"I was wondering how Rex Ryan took Jason Witten out of the game on Sunday. Film showed it was the Dallas coaches that did it for him. I had an idea that the plan would be to try and help Kellen Moore as much as possible, and they did that with “max” protection. Jason Garrett said they went in this direction because they wanted to firm things up protection-wise because of the different looks the Bills like to use."

Kellen had more time to throw but less options.
I thought many times he should have and could have taken more time to look over the field and find the best target.

It was the same way with Weeden and Cassel.

The keys in the Dallas offense must show that the QB takes the first open guy and release.

Obviously..holding the ball is frownned on.

Then there is Romo who constantly holds the ball looking for the big play downfield.

Often resulting in sacks.

So it looks to me as if its the system and the QBs are not succeeding because of it.

Romo gets to put his own spin on things where the others don't seem to have that.

All QBs have their signature styles they are most comfortable with.

I never could discern it when the QB was anyone other than Romo.