What happened to our offense?

[Doomsday101]

5 penalities for 33 yards yesterday???

Yeah but people love claiming it is the same old same old even when it is not. I'm not going to sugar coat the loss. SD moved the chains avoided mistakes put together long drives keeping the Cowboys offense on the sidelines and even when the offense did have chances were not able to convert some critical 3rd downs.

 

[VThokie7]

Garrett's system is garbage and has been for all but one year that he had Sparano holding his hand. Until we finally install a system that plays to the strength of our players we're dead in the water. Sure we may make the playoffs one year, but any confidence we can actually win?

 

[khiladi]

I missed the game, but it's obvious more than ever, they need to scrap the playbook. Garrett's system sucks and the passing game is utter crap and has been. 3rd and long has been a trademark of this offense and teams just play 2 deep to cover our WRs in the slowest developing routes in the history of the league.

 

[Nation]

So you are saying because our average starting point was around our own 20 yard line, that caused our offense to only put up 14 points?

It certainly doesn't help. Look at the Giants 2011 Super Bowl win and how much starting field position for the Patriots hurt them in that game. It's not sexy so it doesn't get a lot of talk, but football is not played in a vacuum where offensive and defensive success is determined just on that side of the ball. It hurt us, but I think the biggest factor was that once they doubled Dez and put Weddle on Witten our other receivers couldn't beat bump and run coverage and the DL was able to get to Romo. But the chart below is what I'm saying about the other side of the ball impacting things.


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[JohnsKey19]

Witten being targetted 10 times is nonsense. It's time for Romo to get over his love affair with #82.

 

[CyberB0b]

Witten being targetted 10 times is nonsense. It's time for Romo to get over his love affair with #82.

Especially since he was never open.

 

[CATCH17]

Agreed. Our offense is not good enough to dink and dunk safely all the way down the field and that is exactly what BC's play calling calls for. We have outdated systems on offense and defense.

I think the defensive scheme will still work.

Every team gets lit up. Seattle got lit up by Schaub and they have the best D in the league. It's generating turnovers and thats all I care about.


The offensive system is crap though and gives us no advantages.. Ever.

We either out athlete teams or struggle.

 

[ufcrules1]

Witten being targetted 10 times is nonsense. It's time for Romo to get over his love affair with #82.

Exactly, Witten being the security blanket for Romo has been a bad thing for this team. Even when Witten has been taken out of the game by the defense, Romo still throws to him like crazy. The other WR's can't be that bad on the team can they? I mean if Witten was Gronk, Graham, Davis, or even Gonzo, I could understand it.. but he is not.

 

[SDCowboy]

Exactly, Witten being the security blanket for Romo has been a bad thing for this team. Even when Witten has been taken out of the game by the defense, Romo still throws to him like crazy. The other WR's can't be that bad on the team can they? I mean if Witten was Gronk, Graham, Davis, or even Gonzo, I could understand it.. but he is not.

I'm sorry, but this BS never ends on this forum. When Romo throws to other targets, he gets bashed for not forcing it to Dez or Witten. When Romo throws to Witten or Dez, he gets bashed for not utilizing his other targets. Romo was getting roasted in the game thread last night for the sole reason of having the audacity to even throw the ball to Williams. The bottom line is, it was a horrible day for the receiving targets. It doesn't matter who was thrown to.

 

[khiladi]

Our offense is very easy to defense, play the run, and stop it a couple of times to discourage the Cowboys from running anymore. Once the Cowboys start passing the ball, and the defense only has to defend the area outside the numbers, since the Cowboys rarely pass in the middle of the field. Yesterday, there were two instances where the Cowboys threw in the middle of the field, one was a TD to Dez the other a drop by Witten that would have been a big play had he made the catch. Sadly both are considered trick plays since those two plays are out of the norm for the Cowboys.

I for the life of me cannot understand why this team does not attack down the seams...

 

[ufcrules1]

I'm sorry, but this BS never ends on this forum. When Romo throws to other targets, he gets bashed for not forcing it to Dez or Witten. When Romo throws to Witten or Dez, he gets bashed for not utilizing his other targets. The bottom line is, it was a horrible day for the receiving targets. It doesn't matter who was thrown to.

I disagree, I don't see anyone bashing Romo for not throwing to Witten enough, that is just ludicrous. Now I have seen people complain he doesn't throw to Dez enough though.

 

[conner01]

The Defense also happened to our offense. It's hard for the offense to do much when the D won't get them on the field (not that the offense didn't have its own issues).

thru 3 qts they ran 63 plays to our 35. hard to win in the nfl when the other team runs nearly twice the plays you do

 

[ufcrules1]

5 penalities for 33 yards yesterday???

Yeah, we are way down on penalties... that is not what is hurting this team anymore.

 

[SDCowboy]

I disagree, I don't see anyone bashing Romo for not throwing to Witten enough, that is just ludicrous. Now I have seen people complain he doesn't throw to Dez enough though.

My point is, it doesn't matter who gets thrown to, people piss and moan. There were people bashing Romo in the game thread just for throwing to Williams. There are people here that litterally ONLY want the ball thrown to Dez. And, yes, there are regularly people here that complain when Romo doesn't force the ball to Witten.

 

[HeavyBarrel]

Garrett's system is garbage and has been for all but one year that he had Sparano holding his hand. Until we finally install a system that plays to the strength of our players we're dead in the water. Sure we may make the playoffs one year, but any confidence we can actually win?

I don't see how this can be argued......Although, regardless of the system we can't have receivers dropping balls.

 

[ufcrules1]

My point is, it doesn't matter who gets thrown to, people piss and moan. There were people bashing Romo in the game thread just for throwing to Williams. There are people here that litterally ONLY want the ball thrown to Dez.

I can get on board with that. Dez is so good that using him as a decoy is great, other WR's have to step up and when the ball is thrown their way. Romo also has to do a good job of finding them and not throwing to Witten any chance he gets. Especially when Witten is being taken out of the game by the defense. Weddle was all over Witten in that game. Romo should have been looking to other targets more often.

 

[Idgit]

We had three drive killing drops (Dez, Witten, Harris). We didn't hurt the SD blitz enough. We had the goal-line fumble. Other than that, I thought the offense was ok and would have been better had they been able to get on the field more if our passing defense were able to stop SD more than it did.

 

[rcaldw]

I'm sorry, but this BS never ends on this forum. When Romo throws to other targets, he gets bashed for not forcing it to Dez or Witten. When Romo throws to Witten or Dez, he gets bashed for not utilizing his other targets. Romo was getting roasted in the game thread last night for the sole reason of having the audacity to even throw the ball to Williams. The bottom line is, it was a horrible day for the receiving targets. It doesn't matter who was thrown to.

Have you ever, in your entire life, criticized Romo? I'm just asking.

 

[SDCowboy]

Have you ever, in your entire life, criticized Romo? I'm just asking.

Yeah, I have. But it gets old when people complain when he has the audacity to throw to a receiver other than Dez or Witten and others complain when he doesn't. There literally were people in the game thread bashing him for throwing the ball to Williams and not forcing it to Dez.

 

[BourbonBalz]

did any of you actually watch the game? did you notice the time of possession? our defense couldnt get off the field. the if not for TWILL's horrible decision making our offense scores 3td's. not sure how you can blame the offense. do i care for the play calling.. hell no but i would put our offense towards the bottom of the list on yesterdays loss

It cuts both ways. Our offense couldn't keep our defense off the field either. Our defense was on the field too much and got worn down because our offense had way too many short possessions. Our offense could only manage 14 points against the 32nd ranked defense in the entire league??? Yea, that's clearly on our defense. LOL They sucked too, but I put far more blame on the offense.