Coy
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 3,412
- Reaction score
- 2,539
Great read on the play of the game.
Tony Romo's magic trick revealed
By Danny Kelly @FieldGulls on Oct 15 2014, 11:41a 10
Against all odds, Tony Romo kept the Cowboys alive with a 23-yard pass to Terrance Williams on third-and-20. Danny Kelly takes a closer look at how he did it.
Getting to 5-1 hasn't always been easy for the Dallas Cowboys. After stumbling out of the gate against the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas needed a huge comeback against the St. Louis Rams in Week 3. The Cowboys mounted another this past week in Seattle to knock off the defending champs.
Their shocking defeat of a Seahawks team that had lost one of its previous 19 games at home almost didn't happen, though, and it took a brilliant, absurdly low-probability, gutsy play by Tony Romo on a third-and-20 late in the game to put the Cowboys alone in the NFL spotlight after six weeks.
Here's what the official boxscore says:
3-20-DAL 31 (4:55 4th Quarter) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass deep right to T.Williams ran ob at SEA 46 for 23 yards.
I feel like they should add an exclamation mark to plays like this, because that vapid, emotionless fragment does nothing to capture what might be the play of the year thus far in the NFL.
With 4:55 remaining in the game, the Seahawks led 23-20 despite Dallas' huge advantage in yards, first downs and time of possession. Seattle had Dallas on the ropes, though, and after Romo missed Dez Bryant to the short left, the Cowboys faced a third-and-20 and the prospect of giving the ball back to the Seahawks so they could run the clock out.
At this moment, according to Advanced NFL Analysis Win Probability Chart, which is based on extensive modeling of previous game situations of this down/distance/time, the Cowboys had an 18 percent chance of winning the game..
Continue Reading.. http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2014/10/15/6980837/tony-romo-pass-terrance-williams-cowboys-seahawks
Tony Romo's magic trick revealed
By Danny Kelly @FieldGulls on Oct 15 2014, 11:41a 10
Against all odds, Tony Romo kept the Cowboys alive with a 23-yard pass to Terrance Williams on third-and-20. Danny Kelly takes a closer look at how he did it.
Getting to 5-1 hasn't always been easy for the Dallas Cowboys. After stumbling out of the gate against the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas needed a huge comeback against the St. Louis Rams in Week 3. The Cowboys mounted another this past week in Seattle to knock off the defending champs.
Their shocking defeat of a Seahawks team that had lost one of its previous 19 games at home almost didn't happen, though, and it took a brilliant, absurdly low-probability, gutsy play by Tony Romo on a third-and-20 late in the game to put the Cowboys alone in the NFL spotlight after six weeks.
Here's what the official boxscore says:
3-20-DAL 31 (4:55 4th Quarter) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass deep right to T.Williams ran ob at SEA 46 for 23 yards.
I feel like they should add an exclamation mark to plays like this, because that vapid, emotionless fragment does nothing to capture what might be the play of the year thus far in the NFL.
With 4:55 remaining in the game, the Seahawks led 23-20 despite Dallas' huge advantage in yards, first downs and time of possession. Seattle had Dallas on the ropes, though, and after Romo missed Dez Bryant to the short left, the Cowboys faced a third-and-20 and the prospect of giving the ball back to the Seahawks so they could run the clock out.
At this moment, according to Advanced NFL Analysis Win Probability Chart, which is based on extensive modeling of previous game situations of this down/distance/time, the Cowboys had an 18 percent chance of winning the game..
Continue Reading.. http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2014/10/15/6980837/tony-romo-pass-terrance-williams-cowboys-seahawks
