This Offense doesn't Fit Romo

[Doomsday101]

In that aspect you are correct. We did a great job protecting our lead.

There was no reason for Dallas to get foolish with the ball. People jump on Romo if he turns it over so to hear people complaining because he dinked and dunked instead of throwing into the heart of the defense is a bit mind blowing. No reason to beat yourself.

 

[Zman5]

Every defense tries to double the other teams elite receiver. But most offense will try to counter that by sending the receiver in motion or using a bunch formation.

Why we don't do this with our elite receiver is baffling.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Why are we taking so many TEs in the second round if we're not.going to use them??

It was just the first game of the season. Overreact much?

 

[ConstantReboot]

Romo has a lot of say in putting the game plan in. This one game should not in any way deter what the Cowboys want to do. You don't jump ship like that they will go back look at what they did good and bad and adjust.

Who said anything about jumping ship? My criticism is towards Garrett and his philosophy of making Romo a pocket passer. Romo is not a pocket passer. He is deadly when he is out of the pocket. Look back to when Peyton was calling the plays. We utilized Romo to the best of his ability. Now he seems nothing more than a pocket passer in a vanilla offense.

 

[ConstantReboot]

Dez, like D-Ware, was being double-triple teamed most of the night. Excellent game planning by the Gints. It was up to the other receivers & the running game to take advantage of that. We have little in regards to a running game, & some of the other receivers didn't step up. We're lucky the defense scored 14 points, or we would have lost that game. It all boils down to a quality O-line, which we just don't have, to have a quality running game. That opens up play-action, and some over-the-top passes.

The Oline gave Romo ample time. Even though we ran the ball I could only count once that we tried a play action. Its amazing that was once our bread and butter play long ago. Since Garrett took over, it seems its no longer part of our offense.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

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

Which teams? The ones with or without Emmitt?

 

[Doomsday101]

Who said anything about jumping ship? My criticism is towards Garrett and his philosophy of making Romo a pocket passer. Romo is not a pocket passer. He is deadly when he is out of the pocket. Look back to when Peyton was calling the plays. We utilized Romo to the best of his ability. Now he seems nothing more than a pocket passer in a vanilla offense.

Romo 2 td Witten came from the pocket, in the past he has had to run for his life and make the throw off broken plays that is not an offense. No QB is running every pass play on the role when you do that you close off half the field unless you are dumb enough to risk throwing a pass back across the field. I think Romo was a bit off I also think he protected the ball and was not taking unnessasary risk with the ball given the coverage he was looking at. He was over 70% of his passes last night. Some people love to moan to hear themselfs.

 

[Doomsday101]

The Oline gave Romo ample time. Even though we ran the ball I could only count once that we tried a play action. Its amazing that was once our bread and butter play long ago. Since Garrett took over, it seems its no longer part of our offense.

Callahan can call play action any time he wants it is still in the playbook.

 

[Staubacher]

Romo played well enough to win with half the game seriously banged up.

The offense featured a LOT of new looks and formations. Escobar actually played a lot.

I get being buttsore our O didn't come out blazing but they will get it going. Lots of new schemes and new players.

 

[Nav22]

Hahaha "throwback to the '90s offense"...

Gotta love the fans who double as offensive geniuses.

Psst: we don't employ a fullback, so our offense looks nothing like it did in the '90s. Oh, and I don't remember Troy in shotgun very much... much less the pistol.

 

[CowboyStar88]

2 thinks here

1. If Murray breaks a couple of those runs it would've loosened up the defense. IMO that's where Dunbar is going to make a huge impact. Murray is a decent back but he doesn't have elite speed and he seems to miss holes. He is content getting 3-4 yards a pop. He didnt create any fear in the defense to get the safeties to cheat up and play the run which would've opened up the passing game and it would've freed up Dez. 3 guys covering Dez is a direct reflection on the Giants not respecting Murray. Personally I think TD is absolutely on the money about Murray and this offense will stumble again until we get a real RB.

2. 5-15 in the 3rd down conversion that's pretty pathetic. I'm tired of seeing these guys run 3 yard routes that's a problem.