Screen pass and draw are the two stupidest plays in the Dallas playbook. The draw results in a loss every time.
The screen pass is risking a pick 6 versus the reward of a small 3 yard pick up.
In KM's offense you just described our run game. It works in the regular season vs undisciplined defenses, but in the playoffs when things tighten up, not so much. SF beat us by doing what we should've done to them and it happened in consecutive years.
This is a good article on Kellen and his thought process :
https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2021/11/18/22788208/cowboys-offense-scheme-kellen-moore-dak-prescott
These things jump out at me:
- "But unlike those high-powered offenses of the recent past,
the Cowboys don’t have a clear ethos."
- "the offense is like a restaurant with a big menu. It’s ambitious, and awfully hard to pull off. But Moore is doing just that. To understand where this philosophy—
or lack thereof—comes from, and how Moore is running it, we have to go back to his days as one of the most prolific passers in NCAA history"
- “We run plays;
we don’t have an offense. It makes it difficult to defend.”
- “I wondered how an offense can’t be a system,” he wrote. “Coordinators pride themselves on establishing identities: ‘It’s what we do’ is a common mantra among the coaching profession. … Well, apparently Boise was the
Seinfeld of college football—
their lack of identity is their identity.”
Like I said, he did some good things but when the time comes for the team get back to it's identity and lean on what it does best there's nothing there.
