What Are The Cowboys Missing On Offense?

[Fredd]

my God, just get a decent back up who will actually not stare down receivers that are triple-covered while your 3rd option is running free

....I digress....

 

[VACowboy]

1) a new playbook
2) Wes Welker
3) Moose

 

[Ren]

The offense is fine when heathy, we lost the skins game cause Romo couldn't read the blitz, the cards game cause Weeden can't pass. Getting Leary and Free back plus Romo getting heathy should fix our problems in the side of the ball.

 

[Ren]

Better play design

Go design some plays that will work with Weeden at QB and you'll have your pick of NFL coaching jobs. Maybe if we give him a different play call then the rest of the O he'll accidentally hit his targets while trying to put the ball somewhere else

 

[visionary]

The offense is as complete a unit as you can get in this league imo. It hasn't looked great the last couple games but every offense has it's games but I think that's an issue where we played poorly against Washington and Weeden just plain sucked against Arizona.

Agreed
We have the talent just need creative planning. Look at the Denver/NE game. The QBs were getting run of the ball before you could blink. Bunch formations, pick plays, short routes.....

 

[visionary]

Go design some plays that will work with Weeden at QB and you'll have your pick of NFL coaching jobs. Maybe if we give him a different play call then the rest of the O he'll accidentally hit his targets while trying to put the ball somewhere else

Weeden is who he is

How about we hire a HC smart enough not to rely on Weeden as the primary back up to a 30+ QB with 2 recent back surgeries?

 

[visionary]

I don't think we are missing much of anything on offense except for the football as fumbles have hurt the offense from becoming elite statistically. We could probably look for Beasley more often as watching All-22 I was a little surprised by how open he is getting. However, it's hard to pass up throwing the ball to Dez. We could also use some better punt returns. Harris has really regressed with his technique as a punt returner. The other thing is that Romo isn't a tall QB and Witten isn't very good at faking the block and receiving the pass. So, we can't get that play action and throw the tight end inside the red zone very effectively.

I just don't see much that is missing from this team to be the best offense in football. More of a matter of execution. I do think we are throwing too often on 2nd down, but most of it is nit picking.





YR

The answer is to throw to beas until they cover him better and that will loosed the coverage on Dez and you throw to him then. Not to force feed the ball to Dez. Look at NE stat line week to week and it changed drastically because that is what they do

 

[big dog cowboy]

How about we hire a HC smart enough not to rely on Weeden as the primary back up to a 30+ QB with 2 recent back surgeries?

JG took over the GM role from Jerry?

 

[visionary]

JG took over the GM role from Jerry?

I will not blame Garrett for weeden if you agree to say that Jerry acquired all the players on the team with no input from Garrett and don't give credit to Garrett for players playing well

Can't have it both ways

 

[reddyuta]

Speed.

 

[Ken]

Im with nick Eatman, get an absolute burner on the outside. It would change the face of this offense.

I agree. Terrence is fast...but doesn't exactly scare anyone. Dez is just not a great deep threat....and his YAC has been down.

 

[JohnsKey19]

Speed.

Yes. This 2014 Cowboys offense is more than fine when healthy. But I've felt over-the-top speed has been a missing element since the losses of TO and Terry Glenn at WR. Even if it's just a 3rd or 4th WR, having a guy who can simply outrun coverage would be beneficial.

 

[xwalker]

IMO, the only thing the offense is missing is better play calling or better designed plays. The personnel on the field is about as complete as you can get.

I don't think the play-calling is terrible or anything, but it was just a little off in the Skins game in terms of having routes to beat the blitz. I can't really blame the play-calling for the AZ fiasco because they had some wide open receivers and time for the QB to get them the ball, but Weeden threw to the receivers that were tightly covered and ignored the ones that were open.

Linehan is in his 1st year with this group and I expect him to adjust going forward. He had some terrific game plans during the winning streak but just didn't quite adjust to the heavy 3-4 blitz against the Skins.

 

[nalam]

Speed.

Primarily yes , they need speed but need a receiver who just flat out run one cut and would leap and get the ball. (A la Miles in his prime) A guy who doesn't waste energy in battling the CB just juke and run. Unfortunately Dez even though can go up and get the ball , he is trying to beat up the CB before getting on the route. Williams can run but can't adjust to the ball and jump and catch , he waits for the ball. So what they should do is use Beasly underneath to put pressure and then free up outside .

 

[xwalker]

Yes. This 2014 Cowboys offense is more than fine when healthy. But I've felt over-the-top speed has been a missing element since the losses of TO and Terry Glenn at WR. Even if it's just a 3rd or 4th WR, having a guy who can simply outrun coverage would be beneficial.

Yes, there are a few times that I think a true burner would be nice to have; however, the biggest problem in the Skins game was too many long, slow developing routes against a heavy blitz. A deep threat wouldn't really help that problem.

They could use Dunbar as a 3rd WR more often to get that burner element into the game. He is a really good receiver on the shorter routes so I would expect that he could be decent on longer routes. They interviewed several players before the Giants game and asked them "who is the faster player on the team" and almost all of them said Dunbar.

 

[JohnsKey19]

Yes, there are a few times that I think a true burner would be nice to have; however, the biggest problem in the Skins game was too many long, slow developing routes against a heavy blitz. A deep threat wouldn't really help that problem.

They could use Dunbar as a 3rd WR more often to get that burner element into the game. He is a really good receiver on the shorter routes so I would expect that he could be decent on longer routes. They interviewed several players before the Giants game and asked them "who is the faster player on the team" and almost all of them said Dunbar.

If we're talking about the Skins game exclusively, the Cowboys could have destroyed that defense easily with simple adjustments from the coaches and decisions from Romo at the line of scrimmage. What we witnessed that night was borderline amateur hour.

My answer was more of a response to what I've seen over the past few years. Having a guy the opposing defense knows when game planning; the Cowboys have a guy who will line up 35-40 percent of the snaps and they have to be wary of how aggressive they are in attacking the shorter zones because of that one guy's explosive ability.

As for Dunbar, I like the player but for whatever reason they have not used him enough to even cause the defense to have to game plan him. Pretty sure his name or number is barely mentioned in the opposing teams practice when preparing for our offense.

 

[Pessimist_cowboy]

I love witten , but if we had a dynamic TE it could become great

 

[HappyOnions]

It's missing Dez for entire games.

 

[Galian Beast]

Variety. By not using guys like Beasley, Escobar, and Dunbar we're predictable on offense. This puts a large burden on just a couple guys to perform.

You can notice our YAC has really suffered this year. Even when we get the ball to Dez, there are tons of guys there to tackle him after the catch.

We also haven't been able to connect on the deep ball with Williams enough.

 

[xwalker]

If we're talking about the Skins game exclusively, the Cowboys could have destroyed that defense easily with simple adjustments from the coaches and decisions from Romo at the line of scrimmage. What we witnessed that night was borderline amateur hour.

My answer was more of a response to what I've seen over the past few years. Having a guy the opposing defense knows when game planning; the Cowboys have a guy who will line up 35-40 percent of the snaps and they have to be wary of how aggressive they are in attacking the shorter zones because of that one guy's explosive ability.

As for Dunbar, I like the player but for whatever reason they have not used him enough to even cause the defense to have to game plan him. Pretty sure his name or number is barely mentioned in the opposing teams practice when preparing for our offense.

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