Why no Escobar?

[JohnnyHopkins]

I have stopped wondering. Escobar will never reach his potential while he is here and he will likely move on at some point and be a very good TE in the league.

It's weird that this team keeps spending high picks on players to ride the bench behind Witten, but never one for Romo.

 

[Jarv]

He has 5 TD's so far over the last two years with 13 games to go this year. If he ends up producing 8 TDs in 2 years as his stats project, that is a great performance from a 2nd TE behind a HOFer. I'm in the camp of he needs more targets.

 

[JoeKing]

Fumbling the ball gets you lowered on the list of who the QB trust throwing the ball to.

 

[Aven8]

He played a total of 8 snaps against Atlanta. 8 freakin snaps! Great plan for now our best receiver!

 

[perrykemp]

He played a total of 8 snaps against Atlanta. 8 freakin snaps! Great plan for now our best receiver!

They are saving him for the stretch run!

 

[big dog cowboy]

Yeh, he's so strong he couldn't even escape the grasp by a DB to recover his own fumble against the EaGirls

Yeah because he's the only tight end to ever allow such a thing to happen.

 

[Aven8]

They are saving him for the stretch run!

I keep hearing this. Wait until they all come back. Just wait, you'll see they say. Un huh, with games at GB, at Buffalo all in December. Gonna sweep them all!

 

[Fla Cowpoke]

It is hard to fathom why he wasn't in there. We heard all training camp how they were splitting him out and getting mismatches...now we are short on TE's and playmakers and he hardly played. I don't get it.

Many people are saying that it wasn't Weeden's fault that he didn't throw downfield.....that it was because no one was open. That is BS, I have seen multiple clips, reviewed the game and have seen cutouts showing that guys were open, they just never got the ball. Weeden either has to open it up or we might as well go with Moore or Cassel.

 

[CowboyGil]

Hey, I'm all for it. Trot another weapon out there for Weeden NOT to throw to.

 

[xwalker]

This was mind boggling to me that the Cowboys really didn't feature Escobar at all against the Falcons. The guy has been productive when given opportunities. He's a big target. He's fast, athletic, great hands, strong, can get yards after the catch, will fight for extra yards, an improved route runner. Especially considering the trouble some of the receivers had in getting separation. We talk about not being able to stretch the field, but Escobar has that ability. Send him deep down the middle of the field. At the very least he's gonna occupy some attention and take some of the load off a hobbled Witten.

Devin Street isn't giving us anything. Escobar can be used as a fourth wideout when we try and spread teams out. The guy had four TD's last year despite being used sparingly. Clearly he has no trouble getting open and being productive in the red zone. I just don't understand the unwillingness to give this guy more snaps. Witten as great as he is getting older. We saw New England use 2 TE sets with Hernandez and Gronk from 2010-2012. Dallas can do something similar with these two. Will they be as good? No especially with a backup quarterback, but will give us another dimension and make us more diverse and explosive and loosen things up for our wide outs.

Street didn't play much (swollen ankle). Butler played more than Street. When Street did play it was most often a run play and he is a terrific run blocking WR. They don't replace Street with Escobar because, as I said Street is most often in on run plays and putting Escobar in would bring in a Safety or LB in place of a CB.

The other option would be to replace Butler with Escobar, but they wanted Butler running intermediate and deep clear out routes which works best with his speed.

Weeden was only going to throw less than 10 yards. Guys like Dunbar and Beasley have the best chance to gain yards after the catch on those short dump off passes.

Escobar did run a deep in and was open, but Weeden had already dumped the ball off on one of his short passes.

 

[mahoneybill]

Considering Weeden saw and targeted Witten going down the seams and just threw it too high I think he'll target Escobar in a similar situation and he unlike Witten can reach and make that play.

Hope we see more use of him, and agree he's at this point has to have more vertical range than Witten

 

[mahoneybill]

Street didn't play much (swollen ankle). Butler played more than Street. When Street did play it was most often a run play and he is a terrific run blocking WR. They don't replace Street with Escobar because, as I said Street is most often in on run plays and putting Escobar in would bring in a Safety or LB in place of a CB.

The other option would be to replace Butler with Escobar, but they wanted Butler running intermediate and deep clear out routes which works best with his speed.

Weeden was only going to throw less than 10 yards. Guys like Dunbar and Beasley have the best chance to gain yards after the catch on those short dump off passes.

Escobar did run a deep in and was open, but Weeden had already dumped the ball off on one of his short passes.

Hopefully Cassell is seeing all of this and commenting as I'm sure Tony is in the team/coaches breakdown of missed opportunities

 

[BAT]

Why no Escobar?? Escobar needs to earn his touches too, hold on to the dang ball and finish a run like a big man instead of flopping over when touched.

 

[DeaconMoss]

Escobar>Street, Lucky, Butler and whoever else they have at WR

They need to line up that 12 formation more and put him to use.

 

[CyberB0b]

He's a bum.

 

[xwalker]

It is hard to fathom why he wasn't in there. We heard all training camp how they were splitting him out and getting mismatches...now we are short on TE's and playmakers and he hardly played. I don't get it.

Many people are saying that it wasn't Weeden's fault that he didn't throw downfield.....that it was because no one was open. That is BS, I have seen multiple clips, reviewed the game and have seen cutouts showing that guys were open, they just never got the ball. Weeden either has to open it up or we might as well go with Moore or Cassel.

Receivers were open often past 10 yards but Weeden would not throw to them. It's easy to see on the All-22.

 

[Zman5]

I have stopped wondering. Escobar will never reach his potential while he is here and he will likely move on at some point and be a very good TE in the league.

It's weird that this team keeps spending high picks on players to ride the bench behind Witten, but never one for Romo.

Especially knowing Witten will play even with two broken legs.

 

[DeaconMoss]

Receivers were open often past 10 yards but Weeden would not throw to them. It's easy to see on the All-22.

X do you have the 22 link for the ATL game?

 

[benson]

I want a QB who isn't afraid to throw the ball. Not some moron.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

No Escobar because we are fixiated on the past. I can see it now, 5 years hens: Romo completes a pass to Witten for 3 yards. Some teams reload other teams wait for players to become Emmitt Smith on there last legs.