Scout's Eye: Randle's Decision Making, Claiborne's Success; More From Week 3

[jnday]

either you do not want to get it (likely) or you cannot get it. You harp on knowledge but are silent on judgement. Judgement without knowledge and knowledge without Judgement - either way its useless. Broaddus clearly has been around and in the atmosphere as regards getting knowledge. It is his JUDGEMENT that many question. And considering some of his very clear misses (Marinelli to Tampa is a done deal, etc) your harping about taking everything he says as something written by Gods hand is a joke.

Have you ever considered that he wasctold by different sources that he had reasons to repeat some of these things? Some people don't throw others under the bus when the heat is on.

 

[xwalker]

• Tyrone Crawford was asked postgame what role injuries played in the Cowboys’ defeat to the Falcons. Crawford’s answer wasn’t surprising when he said “We just didn’t do our jobs.” As well as this Dallas front seven played in the victory last week against the Eagles, it was the complete opposite on Sunday. Against Philadelphia they were able to control the line of scrimmage and rally to the ball – but there was little of that against Atlanta. The Falcons came into the game without their best running back in Tevin Coleman, but that didn’t slow them down one bit. Like I said in my observations shortly after the game, Devonta Freeman punished the Cowboys with his running style. It didn’t matter whether it was inside or outside, Freeman found holes and finished runs. Fullback Patrick DiMarco also played a significant role in the way the Falcons ran the ball. DiMarco was not only physical blocking on the edges, but he was able to inflict damage inside to Anthony Hitchens andSean Lee with his cut blocks that left the pair scrambling to get back on their feet.

• If Joseph Randle is going to have any success in this scheme, he is going to need to do a better job of trusting the play and following his blockers. Randle hit the Falcons with some large runs, but he also left some potential yards on the field with poor decisions. One play in question saw Scott Linehan send a call in that was designed for Travis Frederick and Tyler Clutts to get outside and capture the corner -- which they were both able to do. On theplay Randle even got a block from Devin Street, which created even more space to the outside. For some unexplained reason, Randle didn’t follow his blockers to the outside, where things had developed – he veered to the inside where Justin Durrant was standing right there to meet him for a one-yard gain instead of having a shot for a larger gain.
• Even when this Dallas defense tried to double Julio Jones in coverage, he managed to find a way to beat it. On his long touchdown reception, Tyler Patmon jumped to the outside as if he was expecting help to the inside fromJ.J. Wilcox. I am not sure what Wilcox was thinking, because he was also hanging to the outside -- which gave Jones a free release inside. Just by alignment, Wilcox was beaten and had no shot of rallying to Jones to prevent him from catching the ball.
• At the time I saw it from the press box, I had my questions why Jason Garrett would use a timeout right before the end of the half with the ball on the Atlanta goal line.

http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2015/09/28/scouts-eye-randles-decision-making-claibornes-success-more-week-3?campaign=sf13595304 sf13595304

Even when this Dallas defense tried to double Julio Jones in coverage, he managed to find a way to beat it. On his long touchdown reception, Tyler Patmon jumped to the outside as if he was expecting help to the inside from J.J. Wilcox. I am not sure what Wilcox was thinking, because he was also hanging to the outside -- which gave Jones a free release inside. Just by alignment, Wilcox was beaten and had no shot of rallying to Jones to prevent him from catching the ball.


This is complete nonsense. There is no way that Wilcox can help Patmon "inside" on this play. Wilcox is the deep Safety to the (offensive) left side of the field because there are 3 WRs left with Jones in the slot.

Patmon stays on the outside of Jones giving him a free release inside which is away from Wilcox. Church was inside and probably needed to drop deeper to help Patmon; although, the actual problem was Patmon played the wrong technique. He was probably supposed to give Jones the release towards Wilcox not away from him. Patmon should have played off coverage but was up on Jones.

I think Broaddus watches the game and then tries to remember what happened when he is writing his article instead of writing it down as he watches each play (assuming that he actually reviews each play and is not just going by what he saw from the press box).

 

[starfrombirth]

Last year we still ran the even with 8 to 9 people in the box. Why can't we do it this year?

Fact is we don't have anyone that can pound the ball and break tackles. Our runningbacks are nothing more than change of pace backs that can't run it 15-20 times again. That dynamics has gone once Murray left and we failed to find a capable runningback to fill in the void.

Sorry to say but we no longer run the ball well. Thats because we failed to find a replacement for Murray. Not because we had injuries.

You do realize that Randle has already had more 20+ yard runs than Murray had all of last year... right?

 

[ConstantReboot]

You do realize that Randle has already had more 20+ yard runs than Murray had all of last year... right?

Randle also has several negative runs and runs that went for 1 or 2 yards which Murray would have turned into 8-10 yard gains. Randle is similar to both Dunbar and MacFadden. We need someone else that can pound the ball like what Murray did last year.