The coaches aren't to blame

[Aven8]

How many times does this offense even attempt to attack up the seams? You can motion Dez in the slot and have him run a drag route. That route was huge for this team two years ago when they went toe to toe with Denver in particular.. Nobody could stop it..

You can throw some flare routes up the middle...

This offense limits itself to the sidelines, otherwise have Witten bail the play out, with his syncing with Romo...

With Romo out, you don't see that now..

How about moving Dez in the slot?? Troy said it himself, Sherman won't cover in the slot. But yet we play the same line up, you must beat your man philosophy. We don't fool anybody. It's so vanilla and frustrating, even with the savior Romo! Too bad its too late for the savior!

 

[SportsGuru80]

Coaches get plenty of blame for this loss...

 

[SportsGuru80]

Harrison just said castle looked like he never played quarterback before. Thats because redbozo and gang have him scared outa his mind to make a mistake.

How did those 3 mistakes turn out last week though? Same result, a loss.

 

[Amy50632]

Goodness, it might have to take Garrett to admit that he sucks to have people not defend him anymore.

 

[mattjames2010]

How about moving Dez in the slot?? Troy said it himself, Sherman won't cover in the slot. But yet we play the same line up, you must beat your man philosophy. We don't fool anybody. It's so vanilla and frustrating, even with the savior Romo! Too bad its too late for the savior!

Dez was in the slot quite a few times. Sherman followed him everywhere.

I watched this during the game, Sherman was attached to Dez nearly all game.

 

[black label]

How did those 3 mistakes turn out last week though? Same result, a loss.

OK then lets run the ball some more in the redzone

 

[khiladi]

How about moving Dez in the slot?? Troy said it himself, Sherman won't cover in the slot. But yet we play the same line up, you must beat your man philosophy. We don't fool anybody. It's so vanilla and frustrating, even with the savior Romo! Too bad its too late for the savior!

They just fall back to the Dez is injured excuse. He looked fine to me and they surely weren't saying that before this game.

That being said, Sherman was a beast this game and he was following him around on both sides. It's a myth that Shermsn can't cover both sides.

 

[superonyx]

Let's say Romo decides after this year to hang it up. He is 35 so its not an impossible scenario.

Who here actually believes our FO and JG could replace him with a QB that would allow us to win more than 4 games next year?
Now lets say Brady retires at the end of the year.
How many people believe the Patriots would still be able to win more than 4 games next year.

We have enough talent that Romo being injured isn't a good enough excuse. Its the coaches jobs to put players in position to succeed and make sure they do succeed.

 

[wileedog]

So we are now into week 5 of the post Romo Injury Era, and I have yet to see any kind of offensive adjustment from this team. We are seeing the exact same play calling 5 weeks in a row with a few WR reverse plays and a RB pass play thrown in the last two weeks. Our WR's cant get open and this coaching staff does not have a clue how to fix it.

Want to start blaming coaching? How about this team getting burned by purposely kicking short in the Giants game and then turning around and doing it again this week? This team is struggling on kick coverage so you kick short?

Has this coaching staff thrown out all slant plays? Never ever see one being called. Play action pass? Forget about it.

Check downs, bubble screens, and out routes.........that's pretty much the playbook.

This to me is pretty much the problem, not necessarily aggressiveness or lack thereof.

We had a backup QB who refused to throw downfield.

We brought in a new backup QB, who did throw downfield, but in his first NFL start in over a year made some mistakes. The coaches obviously worked to reign him in this week.

So now we have a new backup QB doing exactly what the old backup QB was doing because we are too worried about his 'mistakes.'

What was the point of trading for Cassel again?

 

[silver]

We're not winning another game before Romo returns. That streak might continue with Romo and people will blame him for being rusty. At the end it should give us a top ten draft pick and will cost Garrett and the whole coaching staff their collective jobs. The front office who deserves most of the blame for not addressing key positions namely backup QB, RB and WR will carry on for another "promising" offseason.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Cassel isn't great by any stretch. He has deficiencies we can discuss till the sun comes up.

However, he is not the kind of guy who throws for less than 100 yards on 25 attempts, and that's exactly what he did today. The coaches are not putting him in a position to be successful.

 

[reddyuta]

How about moving Dez in the slot?? Troy said it himself, Sherman won't cover in the slot. But yet we play the same line up, you must beat your man philosophy. We don't fool anybody. It's so vanilla and frustrating, even with the savior Romo! Too bad its too late for the savior!

even the fricking Commanders are good on how they get theri WRs and TEs open,we are getting outcoached every week.

 

[percyhoward]

Everyone complained about Weeden and were screaming for Cassel but statistically he's been far worse with a 58.5 passer rating in his two starts.

Going back 20 games for each of them, there's little separating them statistically.

Cassel
>100 3 games
80-100 4 games
<80 13 games
364 of 621 4094 yd 20 td 26 int 71.7

Weeden
>100 1 game
80-100 7 games
<80 12 games
404 of 692 4630 yd 21 td 20 int 76.7

 

[black label]

This to me is pretty much the problem, not necessarily aggressiveness or lack thereof.

We had a backup QB who refused to throw downfield.

We brought in a new backup QB, who did throw downfield, but in his first NFL start in over a year made some mistakes. The coaches obviously worked to reign him in this week.

So no we have a new backup QB doing exactly what the old backup QB was doing because we are too worried about his 'mistakes.'

What was the point of trading for Cassel again?

 

[KJJ]

Cassel isn't great by any stretch. He has deficiencies we can discuss till the sun comes up.

However, he is not the kind of guy who throws for less than 100 yards on 25 attempts, and that's exactly what he did today. The coaches are not putting him in a position to be successful.

He scared the coaches with his 3 INT's last week which should've been 5 so they had him and the offiense play not to lose today. The defense was pretty solid but the offense was too conservative to take advantage of the scoring opportunities they had which helped keep us out of the end zone. Can't settle for FG's all day and expect to win.

 

[dallasdave]

Goodness, it might have to take Garrett to admit that he sucks to have people not defend him anymore.

 

[dallasdave]

Don't worry, I chimed in lol

 

[Rockport]

Ergo, there was no deep threat in this game. At all. Which means they Seattle could quickly and easily clean up all of the check downs.

I'm not on your side of this debate.

Well you proved one of my points. Cassel wasn't getting it done. Coaches can't play for him. When he went deep it was under thrown. He has no arm for the deep ball. Coaches know that. Fans don't apparently.

 

[cml750]

Let's say Romo decides after this year to hang it up. He is 35 so its not an impossible scenario.

Who here actually believes our FO and JG could replace him with a QB that would allow us to win more than 4 games next year?
Now lets say Brady retires at the end of the year.
How many people believe the Patriots would still be able to win more than 4 games next year.

We have enough talent that Romo being injured isn't a good enough excuse. Its the coaches jobs to put players in position to succeed and make sure they do succeed.

Excellent post!!!!!

 

[KJJ]

Going back 20 games for each of them, there's little separating them statistically.

Cassel
>100 3 games
80-100 4 games
<80 13 games
364 of 621 4094 yd 20 td 26 int 71.7

Weeden
>100 1 game
80-100 7 games
<80 12 games
404 of 692 4630 yd 21 td 20 int 76.7

I went back the past two games and statistically Cassel has been worse despite a better running game.