Sturm Morning After

[Texas Ace]

I've given up trying to understand this offensive staff's reasoning. To be fair, overall they did a good job managing and calling the game but they are severely lacking when it comes to covering all the finer details of keeping the opponent off balance. There's a lot of room for improvement when it comes to situational play calling and game management.

As you pointed out, it's those 2nd and 1 and 1st and goal from the 5 yard line type situations where they outsmart themselves far too often. I'm not sure why they are so averse to imposing their will on opponents. The concept of running the same plays until the other team proves they can stop it is a foreign concept to them.

It kind of reminded me of the 2013 Packers game. A bit of deja vu all over again. I'm sure the Packers had similar feelings to what they felt in 2013 where even they were left wondering why we were choosing to pass in those situations. And just like in 2013, we shot ourselves in the foot in crucial situations all because we refused to stick with what was working.

Great example because it shows these idiots haven't learned anything.

Cowboys up 14-10 at the GB 33 yard line and it's 3rd and 1. There's less than 2 min before halftime. Cowboys have scored on 2 consecutive drives and are already in scoring position for a 3rd. Green Bay is reeling and has no answers for Dallas.

Despite only having played 28 min of football, the Cowboys are already 4 for 4 on 3rd 1 when calling a run play at this point in the game. So what do we do on 3rd and 1 in a critical situation in the game where we have a chance to really put Green Bay in a bind?

We call a shotgun pass play.



To no one's surprise, it falls incomplete, Bailey has to take a 50 yard FG on a windy field, he misses, Green Bay then cuts what should have been a 21-7 lead into a 14-10 lead. Just like this past Sunday, the staff left points on the field that became the difference at the end of the game.

Sound familiar?

It's all the proof you need that it's in this staff's DNA and it's never ever going to fricking change.

 

[Smitty]

Yea, because it is impossible that someone who watches football could actually know a little something about the sport and actually be right over a coach for once.

Get out of here with that nonsense.

Look, I don't know what technique a corner is supposed to have in order to run stride for stride with a WR, and I can't tell you what a NT's first step should be in order to be effective as a 3-technique. But I don't subscribe to this nonsense that everything a coach does is right and smart and us regular folks can't possibly have a better understanding of a situation than they could.

For all of their career smarts, Pete Carroll and Darrell Bevel absolutely F'd up the Super Bowl 2 years ago. There are only 2 people on earth who thought they should pass the ball in that instance that night, and it's them. Every fan with half a brain would have run it there and rightfully so.

I know you worship at the altar of Garrett, but that moron was wrong for all the times he didn't stick with the run before, and he was wrong for it on Sunday. There is absolutely no good reason whatsoever that we should have thrown the ball on 2nd and 1.

Period.

My original post was too harsh. I must have edited it while you were responding. Apologies.

 

[townsend]

I think what's most frustrating about the offense is we have so much talent pumped into it, it should be able to carry the team. We have a 90s Cowboys level of talent.

The defense is flawed, but it's designed to function as a compliment to the offense. We handed the ball back to Rodgers 3 times without scoring. 21 unanswered is a defensive and offensive failure. Frankly with how many much Capers committed to stop the pass it's unforgivable how many times we went empty backfield. Zeke was breaking off long runs that were just as effective as passes, but without risk of getting behind the chains.

 

[Genghis Khan]

I don't think the offense performed poorly at all.

The defense clearly did, but it wasn't the 11 guys on offense who failed this team, it was the offensive staff who failed this team.

That's the key difference between how and why each respective unit didn't perform as needed in order to win.

Some of the players on offense made some key mistakes (whether you agree with the calls or not) that really hurt us. I think the coaches made some curious decisions but I wouldn't put it all on them.

 

[Genghis Khan]

I think what's most frustrating about the offense is we have so much talent pumped into it, it should be able to carry the team. We have a 90s Cowboys level of talent.

The defense is flawed, but it's designed to function as a compliment to the offense. We handed the ball back to Rodgers 3 times without scoring. 21 unanswered is a defensive and offensive failure. Frankly with how many much Capers committed to stop the pass it's unforgivable how many times we went empty backfield. Zeke was breaking off long runs that were just as effective as passes, but without risk of getting behind the chains.

Agreed.

Here's the frustrating thing for me. Our offense has the ball with about a minute left and driving with the ability to win the game and run out the clock at the same time. This is exactly exactly what you want against Aaron Rodgers. And then the God damn Spike happened.

 

[Rev]

Some of the players on offense made some key mistakes (whether you agree with the calls or not) that really hurt us. I think the coaches made some curious decisions but I wouldn't put it all on them.

They were definitely off the first quarter and a half. I really think we should not have had the bye.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Agreed.

Here's the frustrating thing for me. Our offense has the ball with about a minute left and driving with the ability to win the game and run out the clock at the same time. This is exactly exactly what you want against Aaron Rodgers. And then the God damn Spike happened.

We were absolutely shredding them with the pass too. But that spike just took all of our momentum. Then the next play was basically designed to get us in field goal range instead of continuing to attack. Which is fine but now you've left yourself with one make or break play. When you were basically unstoppable up to this point.

 

[Jiggyfly]

They were definitely off the first quarter and a half. I really think we should not have had the bye.

I agree, I had the feeling the were a little to loose leading up to the game.

I think it will be a lesson learned.