TO's role against the Rams

[lurkercowboy]

It seemed to me that Garrett did not use TO in the same role against the Rams as against the Bears. There was very little effort made to move TO around, like from the backfield etc. to disguise his routes. Did anyone else notice this? Am I wrong?

 

[RomoIsBack]

they did not use t.o even in the second half t.o was like not moveing in motion or nothin he just stay in his spot

 

[YosemiteSam]

Poker Face. You know not what we are going to do until we do it.

 

[EPL0c0]

Seems Garrett does this every game... Every game seems to have a different guy making up the bulk of the catches. I think it's great and tells defenses that you cannot focus on just one guy. Romo is showing that you cannot committ TOO much to spying or blitzing b/c he can move and find the receivers. Garrett's working with what he has and doing a great job imo

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

In TO's post game interview, he said that he was used alot to bring the safeties over to his side which left Crayton with one on one. He looked like he we was ok with it.

I'm guessing that Red told TO "Hey look, you're going to get the ball alot this season, but there will be some games where I have to show present and future oponents that you can't gameplan to stop TO and get by with it" I bet this was one of those games.

If you're Buffalo, what do you do now? You double cover TO and we've shown that Romo can get the ball to other recievers.

 

[dargonking999]

I think Garett said, Hey T.O i know you like numbers, but for this game we want to open up some other players get them invovled. Monday night, we got you though.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

T.O. allows the offense to open up because the guy is unstoppable and teams fear him like they do the plague!

 

[Marktui]

Maybe he just saw that no matter what they did with Owens the safety would always come over the top. Also, did you see that even the middle linebacker would totally just focus on TO coming over the middle that he would ignore the rest of the receivers in his zone.

Garrett probably saw that and schemed his offense to take advantage of that went the other way. Why try and force it into TO and Witten, when the the other weapons are left to single coverage.

It only makes us that much better!! Use all the resources that we have!!

 

[Boyzmamacita]

Did anybody see the pregame piece where they showed Garrett talking to Romo in the locker room? That was pretty awesome to me. The two of them really click. I hope RedBall wants to stay in Dallas with all his heart. I hope Jerry persuades him to stick around until the Wade era ends and the job is his.

 

[31smackdown]

Romo said.. at least I think it was him.. that they were running some really exotic stuff early on and they were essentially doubling both TO and Witten... Which I guess is rare because the other remark was something like.. you can't do that in this league..

I'm guessing if they had Witten and TO running routes to one side that both safeties would go with them and leave the rest of the field to Crayton.

If Crayton can win those one on one's there is no point in moving TO all around to free him up because he will probably still be doubled. Especially if every time you put a certain alignment out there they give you a favorable matchup(one on one outside with no help over the top), then you just keep lining up that way until they prove they can stop you.

 

[CowboyMike]

they did not use t.o even in the second half t.o was like not moveing in motion or nothin he just stay in his spot

huh?

ummmm.... here ya go buddy: http://merriam-webster.com/

 

[Future]

Romo said.. at least I think it was him.. that they were running some really exotic stuff early on and they were essentially doubling both TO and Witten... Which I guess is rare because the other remark was something like.. you can't do that in this league..

I'm guessing if they had Witten and TO running routes to one side that both safeties would go with them and leave the rest of the field to Crayton.

If Crayton can win those one on one's there is no point in moving TO all around to free him up because he will probably still be doubled. Especially if every time you put a certain alignment out there they give you a favorable matchup(one on one outside with no help over the top), then you just keep lining up that way until they prove they can stop you.

Good stuff, makes sense to me. I haven't really looked at it so I don't know, but you sound like you know what you are talking about :laugh2:

 

[Mavs Man]

He likes getting the ball, but seems to me T.O. is happy as long as we're winning.

 

[Catch-22]

Well, to be fair, TO's numbers would have looked a little better had he not had an epic battle between his hands and the ball the entire game.

 

[SupermanXx]

they did not use t.o even in the second half t.o was like not moveing in motion or nothin he just stay in his spot

 

[zeromaster]

T.O. allows the offense to open up because the guy is unstoppable and teams fear him like they do the plague!

Hater...

j/k

 

[FLcowboy]

It seemed to me that Garrett did not use TO in the same role against the Rams as against the Bears. There was very little effort made to move TO around, like from the backfield etc. to disguise his routes. Did anyone else notice this? Am I wrong?

You're absolutely right. I didn't notice it, but now that you mention it.......

I wonder if the game plan was to develop more options so that NE has to game plan everyone. Now the world knows that T.O., Witten, and Crayton are real threats, and must be accounted for. This is the equivalent of Terry Glenn being in the game.

Red is using these "easy" games to set up the team for the harder ones. Hurd had a pretty productive supportive role in the Chicago game, but caught one pass against St. Louis for 4 yards.

Garrett wants all of these names to appear on the scouting reports.

Buffalo now has to think twice about double coverage on T.O. and Witten. Crayton will kill them.

 

[dogunwo]

LOL :laugh2:

 

[arglebargle]

Romo threw to Owens a lot in the first half, and almost totally in the early part of the game. I think the Rams overadjusted to it, and the Cowboys re-adjusted to the weaker part of the defense. As it should be.