Week 8 Gameday Chatter | Redskins vs. Cowboys| 10/26/2014

[boozeman]

Our poetic 6-2 record.

 

[L.T. Fan]

The OL wasn't able to deal with pass protection, the playcalling choices were too obvious, the failure to use the running game more and the choice to let Romo finish the game did in fact finish the game. All of the above makes you wonder how it can be corrected. There is a lot of work to be done and I question the ability to pass protect in critical times. The defense leaked like a rusted bucket. Miss anything?

 

[GShock]

Romo's pass plays upon his Willis Reed return.

sacked (fumbled)
18 yards (almost intercepted)
5 yards
4 yards
Incomplete/Intentional Grounding
-1 yards
Incomplete
Incomplete

FIFY

 

[boozeman]

The OL wasn't able to deal with pass protection, the playcalling choices were too obvious, the failure to use the running game more and the choice to let Romo finish the game did in fact finish the game. All of the above makes you wonder how it can be corrected. There is a lot of work to be done and I question the ability to pass protect in critical times. The defense leaked like a rusted bucket. Miss anything?

Not really.

Teams will blitz the shit out of Romo from here on out and unless Linehan adjusts, there will be more games like this one was,

 

[Texas Ace]

As an aside, I don't think Escobar played a single snap.

I know he was barely featured, which is another strike against an offensive coaching staff that simply got way too cute for a 2-5 team for no damn reason.

 

[Texas Ace]

He was consistently getting rushes of more than five yards on first down, then we would go to the shotgun for the next 2 plays, insane. I can see following up a good run with play action, but just saying "we're not going to run, please blitz the shit out of Romo" is insane.

Exactly.

 

[Texas Ace]

I'm equally concerned about the inability to do anything with playaction. Maybe the stats will say otherwise but I feel like we haven't been able to do as much with playaction as I'd like all season. We clearly wanted to, and it failed over and over. I think at times running playaction on the short yardage downs is smart, we did not capitalize all night.

That is exactly what I said last week and Jiggy argued with me about it.

Outside of the Dez TD in week 3, we are not creating any deep balls via playaction which is very strange given how effective out running game has been.

I don't know why these safeties are not biting.

Play design maybe? I'm not quite sure, but we just aren't getting anything open deep.

 

[Texas Ace]

Not tonight. I don't agree.

Neither do I.

I think this Arizona game makes or breaks the season. That's how impactful I think last night's loss was.

Even if we lose, I think we can still limp to 10-6 and get in, but we'll be one and done. If we beat Arizona, then I think we get 11 wins at worse and we still have a great shot at the division.

But last night showed you why so many of us were cautiously optimistic. That was a great win streak with a number of good wins, but the ugly warts we all knew were there finally reared their head.

Of those warts, the one I hope doesn't reappear again is the Garrett playcalling of 2011-2013. It is inexcusable to have called the game way the way we did last night, and it better not happen again if we intend to start another win streak.

 

[Smitty]

I think it's scarier that when we did go away from the run later in the game, it's like we were surprised when they blitzed. Romo had no clue the pressure was coming on like any of his hits or knockdowns.

Then that last drive in overtime, they sent the house three straight times. And we were calling deep drop backs with receivers running ten yards downfield.

Uh... Don't you need to counter an all out blitz pretty specifically?

 

[Texas Ace]

I think it's scarier that when we did go away from the run later in the game, it's like we were surprised when they blitzed. Romo had no clue the pressure was coming on like any of his hits or knockdowns.

Then that last drive in overtime, they sent the house three straight times. And we were calling deep drop backs with receivers running ten yards downfield.

Uh... Don't you need to counter an all out blitz pretty specifically?

Romo has never been great at reading defenses and dissecting blitzes, but last night was the worst game of his career in that regard.

He was completely clueless as to where the blitz was coming from and showed no awareness at times, including that last sack near his own endzone that should have lost the game.

 

[Smitty]

You had to figure a loss was coming somewhere. If we can beat Arizona and Jacksonville, I'll take it.

 

[Texas Ace]

You had to figure a loss was coming somewhere. If we can beat Arizona and Jacksonville, I'll take it.

Same here, and if we beat them, we're sitting really pretty at 8-2 with a great shot to win the division.

What scares me about last night isn't just the flat performance because those things happen. It's how badly we were outcoached that concerns me most, and I really hope it was just a bad game and not a sign of things to come.

We'll find out on Sunday.

 

[VA Cowboy]

Romo was so bad tonight. It's a miracle we made it to OT.

He completely bitched out on that last play. Plenty of time to step up and throw and he panics and stars spinning for no reason.

As bad as he was all night, it's mind-numbing to think anyone on that sideline thought an injured Romo would give us our best chance at the end and in OT.

The entire team played like crap all night but they deserved to lose just for the decision to put Tony back in at the end. Dumbest team ever.

 

[UncleMilti]

No what's really embarrassing is your offense put up 17 points but your defense allows Colt McCoy to look like Tom Brady.
The Redskins are a bad team and last night we saw the old Cowboys show up...staggering fumbling and playing down a level to the lesser team.
No physicality and very flat.
The team has had some huge wins the last 3 or 4 weeks....this had all the makings of a trap game. Jerry running his mouth...all the media dipshits rubbing the SB oil all over the team-you name it.
They didn't show up ready to play.

 

[UncleMilti]

And once again...no big pressure or big hits on the QB. ..unless we are talking about Romo.

LOL

 

[Deuce]

No what's really embarrassing is your offense put up 17 points but your defense allows Colt McCoy to look like Tom Brady.
The Redskins are a bad team and last night we saw the old Cowboys show up...staggering fumbling and playing down a level to the lesser team.
No physicality and very flat.
The team has had some huge wins the last 3 or 4 weeks....this had all the makings of a trap game. Jerry running his mouth...all the media dipshits rubbing the SB oil all over the team-you name it.
They didn't show up ready to play.

90% of his completions were dinks and dunks. The D allowed them to have the underneith stuff all day. The bulk of his yards came on 2 or 3 plays.

 

[Deuce]

Weeden was 4-6 for 69 yards and a TD...and we turned the tie ballgame back over to a gimpy QB who looked like crap before he took his latest shot.

Unreal.

 

[kidd]

This was a complete team loss.

The defense allowed a third string quarterback to pass for over 300 yards and rush for a touchdown

Our running back fumbled the ball at the worst possible time.

Our quarterback could not read the blitz.

Our coaching staff abandoned the run.

You could change one of any of the above items and we win this game.

 

[data]

 

[Texas Ace]

This was a complete team loss.

The defense allowed a third string quarterback to pass for over 300 yards and rush for a touchdown

Our running back fumbled the ball at the worst possible time.

Our quarterback could not read the blitz.

Our coaching staff abandoned the run.

You could change one of any of the above items and we win this game.

For once, I agree with you.

It was a total stinker across the board and the worst performance of the season by far.....yes, even worse than the 49ers game.