What routes beat that blitz?

[Zordon]

i'm rewatching some of the game this morning. there were guys open. romo was just rattled and dropped his eyes instead of releasing the ball.

 

[sbark]

It seems as if the Skins were dropping a LB, who was showing blitz back into the Slant route area of Dez in attempt to pull in a int., In addition to bunch sets and pick play, Escobar who showed up last week, would've been a nice 6'7" target into the area between the hash marks for Romo to see.......bubble screen to Harris who runs like a rb, Just a lack of creativity, I guess Romo missed those sets on a "day off" of practice weekly

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I would think simple drags, slants, and hitches would be effective.

This.

For the life of me I don't know why they weren't running more slants and crossing routes.

 

[Doomsday101]

any rout as long as you pick up the blitz and in this case Dallas did a poor job of picking up blitz. I think Romo also shares in this by at times holding on to the ball too long. You see it coming you got to get rid of it quickly.

 

[GiveDezdaBall88]

IT's so easy to beat a blitz, esp in the NFL. You run bunch or quad formations and run pick plays and make the defenders go thru hell to cover the guy. You don't run dumb *** long developing routes.

 

[Mr Cowboy]

any rout as long as you pick up the blitz and in this case Dallas did a poor job of picking up blitz. I think Romo also shares in this by at times holding on to the ball too long. You see it coming you got to get rid of it quickly.

Running the play clock down to 0 before snapping the ball was an advantage to the Blitzers..... they could see the play clock and knew when to go.

Also, like last year, it seemed like all the pass patterns were deep and outside the numbers. The middle was wide open.

 

[Doomsday101]

Running the play clock down to 0 before snapping the ball was an advantage to the Blitzers..... they could see the play clock and knew when to go.

Also, like last year, it seemed like all the pass patterns were deep and outside the numbers. The middle was wide open.

Had nothing to do with it, I watch a lot of football and many QB will bring the play clock down because they are having to alter plays will and let WR and OL of changes he needs. Defense is watching the ball not the clock.

 

[kelc]

Why didn't they just do a one two step drop and throw it to Dez on outside. Defense was lining up everyone on the line and no safeties deep. Dez was out there many times one on one with a rookie. See if the rookie can tackle.

 

[maxdallasfan]

The route where the WR and QB look at each other, then look at the 10 men wearing different colored uniforms in front of them, then said WR and QB winking at each other, thus resulting in a quick pitch and catch in the area where the 10 men wearing different colored uniforms were standing.

 

[65fastback2plus2]

any route/play except the ones linnehan ran lol

 

[Roadtrip635]

Quick slants, short drags, screens, hitches and draws are best. One of Romo's biggest strengths can also become a big liability, his escapeability. He relies on that too much at times, It's worked well at times when he was able to identify where the pressure was coming from. Wash. did a good job with their 0 blitzes and line stunts and he couldn't/wouldn't adjust, kept thinking he could spin out of the way and hit the big play. Linehan/Romo did not adjust to the pressure and schemes Wash was using.

 

[Blackspider214]

I would think simple drags, slants, and hitches would be effective.


Also, i'd love love love love LOVE to see Dallas use Dez like Denver uses Demaryius Thomas and throw some of those bubble screens. Those would help keep a defense honest.

On the 3rd and 2 in OT, Dez was singled up top and the DB was 6 yards off of him. No reason for Romo not to immediately toss him the ball and let him pick up the 1st and then some. He went to Witten who was bracketed pretty good. Should have probably been caught but it was not the best target on that play.

 

[Pessimist_cowboy]

On that last drive . Everyone (Wrs ) was running 30 yards downfield . Why ? I have no idea . But our WRs had a poor game . They didn't get separation all nite .

 

[Clove]

The issue I've always had with Romo is he doesn't trust his first read a lot of time, and if you're not 100% open, sometimes, he won't pull the trigger. The reason is because he believes he can buy more time for things to open up, where as a none scrambling type QB will just go with the read and move along as Weeden did. They did not allow Romo to spin away or get outside of the pocket, you have to release that ball. Another thing is, if you don't have a powerful arm, sometimes you just hold the ball waiting for something else to come open.

The last play, I believe that if Romo's back was in tact, he would've chosen a different player to throw to instead of the player who had a corner in front. There was actually a player deeper on that route, same side as Dez but much deeper that seemed wide open but a hurting back can prevent you from even attempting that throw.

Running screens all night is tricky because they did not blitz a lot of the times but threatened to, but I would've run a minimum of 5 to 8 screens and 5 to 6 WR screens just to let them know that if you try this ****, we will be moving 75 yards down the field in one shot, either that or put 2 TE in the game, spread them out in an empty set, then audibled them back into max-protection and HUGE PLAYS down the field would've happen for Dallas. We figured this out, yet Linehan and Garrett had no clue.

 

[Zman5]

The issue I've always had with Romo is he doesn't trust his first read a lot of time, and if you're not 100% open, sometimes, he won't pull the trigger. The reason is because he believes he can buy more time for things to open up, where as a none scrambling type QB will just go with the read and move along as Weeden did. They did not allow Romo to spin away or get outside of the pocket, you have to release that ball. Another thing is, if you don't have a powerful arm, sometimes you just hold the ball waiting for something else to come open.

The last play, I believe that if Romo's back was in tact, he would've chosen a different player to throw to instead of the player who had a corner in front. There was actually a player deeper on that route, same side as Dez but much deeper that seemed wide open but a hurting back can prevent you from even attempting that throw.

Running screens all night is tricky because they did not blitz a lot of the times but threatened to, but I would've run a minimum of 5 to 8 screens and 5 to 6 WR screens just to let them know that if you try this ****, we will be moving 75 yards down the field in one shot, either that or put 2 TE in the game, spread them out in an empty set, then audibled them back into max-protection and HUGE PLAYS down the field would've happen for Dallas. We figured this out, yet Linehan and Garrett had no clue.

I'm a big Romo fan but I have to agree with the bolded part of your post.

 

[Floatyworm]

For whatever reason....Our coaching staff and Romo were like deer in headlights last night. As if they had never seen a blitz before.

Another thing I would have like to have seen was take a deeper shotgun snap. What's the point of taking a shot gun snap if your 6 feet away?

Sometimes I think coaches forget the whole concept of why the shotgun formation is used. It's to get the QB the ball faster.....in a deeper drop so he has more time to find receivers.

We should have picked them apart last night. They ran 2 different blitz packages. the Double A gap blitz... and an over load to the left. And we did nothing to adjust to that. Poor coaching.

 

[Kevinicus]

On the 3rd and 2 in OT, Dez was singled up top and the DB was 6 yards off of him. No reason for Romo not to immediately toss him the ball and let him pick up the 1st and then some. He went to Witten who was bracketed pretty good. Should have probably been caught but it was not the best target on that play.

His first read was Dez. The LB (or DB) that was showing blitz broke underneath that route. If he throws to Dez, it's more than likely an interception, possibly a pick 6 (not that it would matter at that point).

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

His first read was Dez. The LB (or DB) that was showing blitz broke underneath that route. If he throws to Dez, it's more than likely an interception, possibly a pick 6 (not that it would matter at that point).

They seemed to do that a lot last night. They'd drop a player into the passing lane on what they thought would be Romo's hot read and it caused enough of a pause that the blitz would get there before he could do anything else. At some point, you have to make adjustments to counter that and we just didn't.

 

[benson]

You CANNOT blitz elite QBs. You can and will often find success blitzing Romo. Manning, Brees, Rodgers will have the ball out of their hand in an instant to their hot receiver/scat back. Romo holds the ball.

End thread

 

[jobberone]

They ran several blitzes including corner and safety. They were afraid of the underneath stuff because you couldn't tell when they were coming or not. Romo is not strong seeing that although to be fair its hard on anyone.

The best way is to throw the ball to Dez or say Escobar when they're in single coverage. Or a screen inc bubble screens. Or a toss outside to Dunbar. It'd also help a lot to win the TO battle.

We got outcoached last nite. I'd say they were schooled. Even taken to the woodshed.