MacMahon: Why not ride DeMarco Murray in overtime?

[Texas Ace]

It was inexcusable. You have built your identity and then go away from that with the game on the line. Just baffles my mind.

Like I said the morning after, I can appreciate and accept that maybe they saw something on film that they thought they could exploit. It happens every week in the NFL so I'm ok with it.

But as that game progressed, and we kept putting ourselves in 3rd downs, then the Romo injury, then the failure to deal with their blitz, it made absolutely no sense whatsoever to continue on with the 2nd and short passing nonsense.

There is not a justifiable explanation for having done so in the 4th quarter and OT.

 

[Smitty]

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/10/28/dallas-cowboys-washington-redskins-tony-romo-back-injury-nfl/



It's not rocket science.

We should have run the ball a lot more on 2nd and short than we did. I still can't wrap my mind around what the coaches were thinking when they kept on calling passes on 2nd and short.

In that series of events I agree.

I actually kinda think we didn't get away from the run earlier in the game though.

I think I heard on Talkin' Cowboys or something that two drives in the first half ended by sacks on third down (passing situations), and two more ended by fumbles. If those drives aren't ended prematurely with mistakes, we probably are weighing in at about our average in rushing attempts.

 

[boozeman]

In that series of events I agree.

I actually kinda think we didn't get away from the run earlier in the game though.

I think I heard on Talkin' Cowboys or something that two drives in the first half ended by sacks on third down (passing situations), and two more ended by fumbles. If those drives aren't ended prematurely with mistakes, we probably are weighing in at about our average in rushing attempts.

Dang that lack of execution.

 

[Texas Ace]

In that series of events I agree.

I actually kinda think we didn't get away from the run earlier in the game though.

I think I heard on Talkin' Cowboys or something that two drives in the first half ended by sacks on third down (passing situations), and two more ended by fumbles. If those drives aren't ended prematurely with mistakes, we probably are weighing in at about our average in rushing attempts.

But that's the thing, those drives ended on 3rd down sacks that may not have occurred had we'd gotten 1st downs but running on 2nd and short.

 

[Clay_Allison]

In that series of events I agree.

I actually kinda think we didn't get away from the run earlier in the game though.

I think I heard on Talkin' Cowboys or something that two drives in the first half ended by sacks on third down (passing situations), and two more ended by fumbles. If those drives aren't ended prematurely with mistakes, we probably are weighing in at about our average in rushing attempts.

Even with the passes, emptying the backfield and letting Blitzers come free isn't the way to go. A lot of those passing situations were of the 3rd and 6 variety where the threat of a draw could still keep the D honest.

 

[boozeman]

Even with the passes, emptying the backfield and letting Blitzers come free isn't the way to go. A lot of those passing situations were of the 3rd and 6 variety where the threat of a draw could still keep the D honest.

It is not like we haven't seen what the Redskins marched out before. In a copy cat league, it will be theme going forward, especially if Romo goes into self-preservation, chuck and duck mode.

 

[Clay_Allison]

It is not like we haven't seen what the Redskins marched out before. In a copy cat league, it will be theme going forward, especially if Romo goes into self-preservation, chuck and duck mode.

We need to get better at passing off play action, not telegraph every play with the set we're using like we're playing Madden.

 

[boozeman]

We need to get better at passing off play action, not telegraph every play with the set we're using like we're playing Madden.

Romo is awful at ball fakes. That matters.

That is one deal I don't get when people evaluate Romo. They assume that since he is pretty good, that he can do what elite guys do.

No, he can't. No shame in it, but he has his own role in it in regards to the sell.