Landry brought the shotgun back to give Staubach an advantage. It was typically only used in 3rd and long yardage.
Why is this team now constantly going into shotgun formation on it seems, almost every play? What's with the quick trap out of the shotgun? Why be in the shotgun on short yardage plays? They even go into the shotgun inside the 5.
To me, being in shotgun formation tells your opponent what you're not going to do. It's easier for a defense to read what you're not going to do as opposed to what you are, which makes it all the more difficult to succeed..
Imo, they are using shotgun formation for their RPO; which could mean straight pass, or fake, play action hand off to zeke, where either zeke gets the handoff or Dak runs with it, or play action and rolls out.
Shot gun in short yardage ? Apparently they are using RPO's to try to mislead and confuse the defense.
RPO- shotgun is widely used around the entire NFL.
My only question with this RPO's is could this be taking away from Zeke's better running plays where he can line up deep while Dak is under center, and
have more of a distance and vision lane to to better see developing holes - I recalled that was an very early issue during Zeke's rookie 2016 year at the start.
And even HOFer Emmitt Smith had to chime in and questioned running zeke out of shotgun vs allowing him to line up and get deep handoffs from QB under center.