This Offense doesn't Fit Romo

[ConstantReboot]

I'm excited to see that we won. But I was a little disappointed with our offense. I would have thought that we would have opened it up more with the weapons that we have.

I remember when Romo was the best out of pocket QB in the league. We would run play action a lot and would make for big plays. All of that is gone now. Romo is nothing more than a pocket passer. I think Garrett's philosophy has gotten to him. No more scrambling out of the pocket and improvising. Its a throwback to the 90s offense now and Romo has become like Aikman.

Sad to say it but seeing our offensive philosophy holding back Romo. Romo is a gunslinger. Let him throw vertically downfield like he used to.

Frankly Im disappointed - especially what Garrett has brought to this offense. Lets discuss this.

 

[Boyz981]

Were you watching the coverage?

***Hint*** Callahan calls the plays now!

 

[superonyx]

Defense was playing over the top and keeping everything in front of them. If Romo would have forced the deep ball then people would be saying that they need a game manager and not a gunslinger.

The talent level in the NFL is too great to impose your will and be stupid in the process. It's not statistically sexy but the reality is that you need to take what the defense gives you. Last night that was underneath. The running game should have been much better than it was.

I am happy with the way Romo played. It wasn't perfect but it is understandable.

 

[ConstantReboot]

Were you watching the coverage?

***Hint*** Callahan calls the plays now!

It still Jason's playbook. Callahan is just calling it. I understand that he took what the Giants gave him. But Giants stopped us many times when they needed to. We have too many weapons to play vanilla IMO.

 

[BAZ]

Hopefully things improve when Berny parks it. First game, div rival, the Giants, all these factors make sit a bit early to judge. Seeing Witten pull a couple of TDs in shows improvement.

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

Were you watching the coverage?

***Hint*** Callahan calls the plays now!

Of course when you have a Dez Bryant and Miles Austin on the field....you are going to see bracket coverage on the outside. We saw it last year. So this is nothing new. This is when you MUST do 2 things. You MUST have a 3rd guy that can beat man coverage (Williams is supposed to do what Ogletree could not) And you should be able to run a team into the ground. Terrance Williams was awful last night. And DeMarco Murray is overated. He is looking like a slightly faster Marion Barber. I believe Terrell Davis said this week that Murray "runs to darkness". Witten will be open. And Murray will be open in the flats. You need guys that are EXPLOSIVE in those postitions. And can turn 4 yard passes into explosive plays. I guess the RB that is hurt will help some.

The Cowboys are going to have to show patience. Something we did not do last night enough. And Romo got hurt because of it. We threw 39 times in the 1st half. 39 times! And it was because we could not run it good enough....or get big chunks of yards in the passing game. Maybe Waters will help.

30 touches for DeMarco Murray is WAY TOO MUCH. First of all...he is injury prone. Secondly, he does not make people miss.

 

[Boyz981]

ok

 

[cannonball44]

.... is this real life?

 

[reddyuta]

the backup TEs have to step up and bail out romo,we cannot depend on witten to get us the first down every time.

 

[LatinMind]

until dallas can run consistently teams are going to play the pass first

 

[cannonball44]

Dunbar will add the missing dimension and Hanna has to be a force in the passing game. Why are we taking so many TEs in the second round if we're not.going to use them??

 

[Oh_Canada]

Dunbar will add the missing dimension and Hanna has to be a force in the passing game. Why are we taking so many TEs in the second round if we're not.going to use them??

Good question. I am having trouble believing the crappy Giant lb's would be able to cover Hanna. I love Witten, but this insistence on throwing to him on third downs is getting a little predictable and is probably responsible for killing as many drives as it is sustaining them.

 

[superonyx]

Good question. I am having trouble believing the crappy Giant lb's would be able to cover Hanna. I love Witten, but this insistence on throwing to him on third downs is getting a little predictable and is probably responsible for killing as many drives as it is sustaining them.

Hanna? Did you just say the "crappy" giants LB's wont be able to cover Hanna? Did I miss something that turned Hanna into Larry Fitzgerald? This is the NFL. You are suggesting to force the ball into Hanna because of a perception that the giants linebackers are "crappy" and Hanna is too good to be covered by them?

The talent is too great at this level. Every player is fast. Every player can cover. Yes some players have shown the ability to excel over others in some aspects and in some situations. However you don't force the ball into situations where you are expecting Hanna to overcome something he shouldn't be expected to overcome.

So how many passes were thrown to Witten on 3rd down that he didn't catch and led to killing drives?

 

[bayeslife]

Dez got owned last night. And Williams was just awful.

I think I'm just gonna chalk it up to the Giants defense always playing us tough no matter what.

 

[cannonball44]

Terrance Williams failed us mightily. We're STILL missing Laurent Robinson.

 

[boysfanindc]

Good question. I am having trouble believing the crappy Giant lb's would be able to cover Hanna. I love Witten, but this insistence on throwing to him on third downs is getting a little predictable and is probably responsible for killing as many drives as it is sustaining them.

Yes, those 2 Witten TD's kind of irritate me too.

 

[03EBZ06]

T. Williams failed only after his first NFL game? lol

Dude is a rookie and everyone should expect rookie mistake (see Dez's rookie year) which did occur but to say he is a failure is just insane.

 

[whynot]

We mocked the giants secondary and feared their running game going in. Turned out we should have been looking the other way around.

That's the beauty of divisional matchups I guess, particularly when you have the whole offseason to prepare for each other.

Still, at least we won. Phew!

 

[tupperware]

I'm excited to see that we won. But I was a little disappointed with our offense. I would have thought that we would have opened it up more with the weapons that we have.

I remember when Romo was the best out of pocket QB in the league. We would run play action a lot and would make for big plays. All of that is gone now. Romo is nothing more than a pocket passer. I think Garrett's philosophy has gotten to him. No more scrambling out of the pocket and improvising. Its a throwback to the 90s offense now and Romo has become like Aikman.

Sad to say it but seeing our offensive philosophy holding back Romo. Romo is a gunslinger. Let him throw vertically downfield like he used to.

Frankly Im disappointed - especially what Garrett has brought to this offense. Lets discuss this.

I said pretty much the same thing in my Concerned about Romo thread. I just don't think he's a pocket passer and that may be what this team really needs.

 

[17yearsandcounting]

Garrett has been trying to shoe horn Romo into his 1990's fantasy since he has been here.