Think Tony will let Dak in on the secret?

[CouchCoach]

What secret is that you ask? Thanks for playing your part so well.

The enemy is not the other team or the DC of the other team, it is his own offensive coaching staff. It has been this way for as long as Garrett has been here and the only way Romo could be successful was to overcome it.

Think of this for strange bedfellows (OK. I'll pause and wait for you to get your mind out of the gutter), the team builds an OL with 1st round picks and then ups the ante with a RB but who do they have as the OC?

Before being fired in DET, Linehan called the most pass plays every year for 5 years despite the team building a pretty good defense. The only time in the last 7 seasons he realizes the importance of the run game is when Callhan is there and I do not think it was coincidence that our OL and run game were at their peak. I do not count 2015. I actually don't count anything in 2015, I decided to ignore it.

So, what have we been seeing from Romo and how did he learn to be effective? Why did he need to become Houdini, why were there so many of the enemy in his backfield as if they knew the play? Did you see that from the Giants D on Sunday? Me too.

Dak is an unusual physical talent and he's going to need to use some more of that but stop short of being Robert Griffin thinking he's Jerome Bettis, what a tool. Dak has to take some pages from the Romo Book of Improvisational Plays and overcome some, not all, of his offensive play calling from the coach. Tall order, took Romo a long time to understand the defenses and Dak is on a crash course but it's that or suffer at the hands of his own coaching.

In a long line of stupid coaching I've seen from this team, this may have taken the top spot. 45 pass attempts for a rookie QB with, supposedly, the best run OL in the game is beyond stupid.

On the other side of that are the audibles. If Dak checked off to that many passes, then they need to get Sanchez ready. The identity of this team is not The Dak Prescott Show, it is a run team. If we do not run, we lose.

 

[DogFace]

Seemed like we did run a lot. Wonder what the ratio was?
Anyhow, a lot of the runs weren't successful and you pretty much have to pass on 3rd and long and in the desperate time at the end.

I agree though, we are a running team and have to find a way to make it work. Read option worked and I'd like to see Dak keep it more. Whatever happens we have to get much better at play calling and running and catching. Guess that sums it up.

 

[Clove]

Don't waste your breath man, this offense has no ingenuity period. The route tree is bland, it's like looking at straight lines on a chalk board. End guys go up field, slot guys go in the middle. Yada yada yada.

 

[SacramentoKing]

We tried to run but couldn't because we make it so obvious. Giants were ready when we were in our run formations. If we can predict the play calling they for sure can.

 

[erod]

Romo reads the defense and changes Dez' routes with a few hand signals at key moments. He also is brilliant at throwing guys open that are covered.

That takes an understanding of defensive schemes that Orton, Cassel, Weeden, Moore, and Prescott don't have. Very few QBs ever get there.

Dak has plenty to learn before he's ready for that. But he's a fast learner, so I'm hopeful it'll be sooner than later.

 

[CouchCoach]

Seemed like we did run a lot. Wonder what the ratio was?
Anyhow, a lot of the runs weren't successful and you pretty much have to pass on 3rd and long and in the desperate time at the end.

I agree though, we are a running team and have to find a way to make it work. Read option worked and I'd like to see Dak keep it more. Whatever happens we have to get much better at play calling and running and catching. Guess that sums it up.

45 PA 30 RA 60% Pass to run

 

[DandyDon1722]

Romo reads the defense and changes Dez' routes with a few hand signals at key moments. He also is brilliant at throwing guys open that are covered.

That takes an understanding of defensive schemes that Orton, Cassel, Weeden, Moore, and Prescott don't have. Very few QBs ever get there.

Dak has plenty to learn before he's ready for that. But he's a fast learner, so I'm hopeful it'll be sooner than later.

The word is he also changes play calls in the huddle because he sees defensive players cheating on routes that the coordinators aren't picking up.

 

[erod]

The word is he also changes play calls in the huddle because he sees defensive players cheating on routes that the coordinators aren't picking up.

Romo, Brady, Brees, Peyton, Rodgers....these guys are vastly superior to any offensive coordinator in the league. They understand far more than a guy who hasn't played at their level.

 

[yimyammer]

The word is he also changes play calls in the huddle because he sees defensive players cheating on routes that the coordinators aren't picking up.

where did you hear that?

 

[CouchCoach]

where did you hear that?

Any Given Sunday

 

[hornitosmonster]

I don't think Dak has the liberty to call his own plays like Romo does

 

[JS22]

We tried to run but couldn't because we make it so obvious. Giants were ready when we were in our run formations. If we can predict the play calling they for sure can.

Yes, it's super-depressing being able to call out the run plays as they were lining up. And I'm just a nobody sitting on a couch. I can only imagine the field-day defensive coordinators must be having.

 

[Aven8]

Dak threw the ball 45 times. Look up Romo's stats when he's thrown over 45. He's lost the majority of those games.

 

[Richmond Cowboy]

My pet peeve is the empty backfield especially on first down. Why not use play action more?

 

[DandyDon1722]

where did you hear that?

Bill Simmons spent an afternoon with Tony in the off-season and went on Cowherd's show and said it was the best three hours he's ever spent with an athlete. The things he learned from Romo and the position were priceless.

One of the things Simmons mentioned is that Romo knows when a DB has been trying to bait him so he'll change the play in the huddle to double-cross him when he's got him set up. It's the game within the game. For instance, he spots a guy laying back on an a slant but Romo knows he wants to jump it he'll change the call to a Slugo (slant & go). Same on running plays with linebackers, he'll change a call to the opposite side of the field, things like that. Said the coaches give him the latitude to do it if he knows he's got a guy because he' s the only one who can sense it.

Pretty cool stuff actually.

 

[Clove]

My pet peeve is the empty backfield especially on first down. Why not use play action more?

Don't get me started. I hate the empty set because there is absolutely ZERO threat of running.

 

[Jinxx13x]

What secret is that you ask? Thanks for playing your part so well.

The enemy is not the other team or the DC of the other team, it is his own offensive coaching staff. It has been this way for as long as Garrett has been here and the only way Romo could be successful was to overcome it.

Think of this for strange bedfellows (OK. I'll pause and wait for you to get your mind out of the gutter), the team builds an OL with 1st round picks and then ups the ante with a RB but who do they have as the OC?

Before being fired in DET, Linehan called the most pass plays every year for 5 years despite the team building a pretty good defense. The only time in the last 7 seasons he realizes the importance of the run game is when Callhan is there and I do not think it was coincidence that our OL and run game were at their peak. I do not count 2015. I actually don't count anything in 2015, I decided to ignore it.

So, what have we been seeing from Romo and how did he learn to be effective? Why did he need to become Houdini, why were there so many of the enemy in his backfield as if they knew the play? Did you see that from the Giants D on Sunday? Me too.

Dak is an unusual physical talent and he's going to need to use some more of that but stop short of being Robert Griffin thinking he's Jerome Bettis, what a tool. Dak has to take some pages from the Romo Book of Improvisational Plays and overcome some, not all, of his offensive play calling from the coach. Tall order, took Romo a long time to understand the defenses and Dak is on a crash course but it's that or suffer at the hands of his own coaching.

In a long line of stupid coaching I've seen from this team, this may have taken the top spot. 45 pass attempts for a rookie QB with, supposedly, the best run OL in the game is beyond stupid.

On the other side of that are the audibles. If Dak checked off to that many passes, then they need to get Sanchez ready. The identity of this team is not The Dak Prescott Show, it is a run team. If we do not run, we lose.

CC great read as always i will have to disagree with you on getting sanchez ready though! Dak Presscott needs to play in these divisional games this experience is invaluable. Honestly i don't think Dak was the problem, we needed to have some big plays in the passing game to get the giants out of the box and those key drops came back to haunt us. With no threat in the passing game there is not one of us who wouldn't have continued to pressure the run game. I just wish the ran outside more to try to tire the 2 middle monsters Hankins and snacks more.

 

[Roadtrip635]

Romo covers a lot of the offensive coordinators shortcomings by constantly calling audibles, making changes and just by his own ability to create. Little of our offensive success comes about through superior schemes, play design or play calling by the coaching staff.

 

[Zman5]

Watching All22, one of the big issue with our passing game is we rarely attack the deep middle of the field. This makes it easier for the opposing DB to defend the outside routes. They have less ground to account for. We need to have them defend the whole field.

 

[CowboyRoy]

What secret is that you ask? Thanks for playing your part so well.

The enemy is not the other team or the DC of the other team, it is his own offensive coaching staff. It has been this way for as long as Garrett has been here and the only way Romo could be successful was to overcome it.

Think of this for strange bedfellows (OK. I'll pause and wait for you to get your mind out of the gutter), the team builds an OL with 1st round picks and then ups the ante with a RB but who do they have as the OC?

Before being fired in DET, Linehan called the most pass plays every year for 5 years despite the team building a pretty good defense. The only time in the last 7 seasons he realizes the importance of the run game is when Callhan is there and I do not think it was coincidence that our OL and run game were at their peak. I do not count 2015. I actually don't count anything in 2015, I decided to ignore it.

So, what have we been seeing from Romo and how did he learn to be effective? Why did he need to become Houdini, why were there so many of the enemy in his backfield as if they knew the play? Did you see that from the Giants D on Sunday? Me too.

Dak is an unusual physical talent and he's going to need to use some more of that but stop short of being Robert Griffin thinking he's Jerome Bettis, what a tool. Dak has to take some pages from the Romo Book of Improvisational Plays and overcome some, not all, of his offensive play calling from the coach. Tall order, took Romo a long time to understand the defenses and Dak is on a crash course but it's that or suffer at the hands of his own coaching.

In a long line of stupid coaching I've seen from this team, this may have taken the top spot. 45 pass attempts for a rookie QB with, supposedly, the best run OL in the game is beyond stupid.

On the other side of that are the audibles. If Dak checked off to that many passes, then they need to get Sanchez ready. The identity of this team is not The Dak Prescott Show, it is a run team. If we do not run, we lose.

The secret is pretty simple. You have to take some chances, make some big plays, and get some wins under your belt so that you get respect from the coaches and other DC's. Then things loosen up. Romo did that better than anyone and pretty much got hammered for it for most of his career.