I was reading a post the other day on old clips of Roger and the old Cowboys teams. A comment was made about how long he had to throw and how it was so much different in todays game. I thought to myself, there is a whole generation, starting on a second probably, that has never seen a QB who teams are affraid to Blitz.
Roger Staubach and those old Cowboys used to get blitzed a lot. Eventually, that team evolved to the point teams would no longer blitz. It was a quick dump off pass either. Roger would beat you for six. That's how good he became against the Blitz. It got to the point where we might see two or three teams a year try and Blitz us, if that. There is an old saying, live by the blitz, die by the blitz. It was coined by somebody who played against Roger Staubach I'm thinking.
We really haven't had a QB who can do that since Aikman and even then, he was not nearly as good at it as Roger. Because he played in a timing offense, the blitz was rearly ever a factor. The ball came out to quickly. In second halfs, we ran the ball most times eating clock. He didn't often have to beat the blitz. Later in his career, we didn't have the talent to beat the blitz and then we didn't have the skills at QB so, it's been a while.
Long story short, sting a team for a TD a couple of times and they'll stop blitzing in a hurry.
