Divisional Round Playoff Chatter | Cowboys vs Packers | 1/11/2015

[Rev]

Neither does throwing to Beasley. Say you throw it to Beasley and he drops it...people would be whining about not taking advantage of Dez in a one on one.

I didn't mean to infer that it was. Just answering his Bryant choice. I think it is debatable either way and even though it has probably run its course I wouldn't say its a dumb discussion.

 

[Carp]

Nobody would be whining about throwing to Beasley for dropping a ball if he was wide open and would have had the first down. People would just simply be pissed at Beasley for ending our season.

Right. Romo would be colored as an idiot for not utilizing Dez.

 

[Deuce]

Right. Romo would be colored as an idiot for not utilizing Dez.

Ridiculous, and even moreso if someone did act that way.

I have my issues with Romo, but making the proper read and hitting an open man wouldn't be one if he did it. It's on the WR at that point.

 

[Texas Ace]

I've explained it twice already. Romo knows Beasley is running a 3 yard slant, he knows he's single covered with a safety who's also playing 8 yards off the line. He knows Beasley will be open immediately.

Or at least he should know.

 

[Deuce]

Or at least he should know.

That's the other issue. Romo has never been elite at presnap reads. His ability to know a blitz is coming is horrid, but luckily its counterbalanced by his pocket presence to sense it other times.

If he just walked to the line, saw Dez one and one and just ignored everything else, I have an issue with that.

 

[Texas Ace]

Neither does throwing to Beasley. Say you throw it to Beasley and he drops it...people would be whining about not taking advantage of Dez in a one on one.

Not anyone with any sense.

Just as I said yesterday about the other assumption you made that a completed Dez catch results in everyone praising Romo, that wasn't true and neither is this.

It is possible to analyze a situation without being affected by the emotion involved in it. Just like many of us didn't like the decision even when we thought it was completed, I'm sure there would plenty of people who would not have criticized Romo one bit for making the right read on a Beasley drop.

 

[Texas Ace]

That's the other issue. Romo has never been elite at presnap reads. His ability to know a blitz is coming is horrid, but luckily its counterbalanced by his pocket presence to sense it other times.

If he just walked to the line, saw Dez one and one and just ignored everything else, I have an issue with that.

Exactly.

I mentioned yesterday how if you go back and look at the backbreaking interceptions in his career, as well as the turnover on downs plays late in games, almost all of them consist of him completely ignoring the underneath guys in favor of going down the field. And in most of those instances, the underneath guys were wide open.

When players are under pressure, whether it be physical or mental, they go with their instincts and Romo's instinct in that situation is always to go down the field for whatever reason.

 

[Angrymesscan]

I've explained it twice already. Romo knows Beasley is running a 3 yard slant, he knows he's single covered with a safety who's also playing 8 yards off the line. He knows Beasley will be open immediately.

Isn't the CB that blitzed lined up straight across Beastly?

 

[Carp]

I'll leave it alone, but I just can't see how it was a bad read or decision. Took brass ones to make that throw and I credit Romo with going after it.

 

[Angrymesscan]

Nobody would be whining about throwing to Beasley for dropping a ball if he was wide open and would have had the first down. People would just simply be pissed at Beasley for ending our season.

Right. Romo would be colored as an idiot for not utilizing Dez.

Ridiculous, and even moreso if someone did act that way.

I have my issues with Romo, but making the proper read and hitting an open man wouldn't be one if he did it. It's on the WR at that point.

Not anyone with any sense.

Just as I said yesterday about the other assumption you made that a completed Dez catch results in everyone praising Romo, that wasn't true and neither is this.

It is possible to analyze a situation without being affected by the emotion involved in it. Just like many of us didn't like the decision even when we thought it was completed, I'm sure there would plenty of people who would not have criticized Romo one bit for making the right read on a Beasley drop.

Had Beastly dropped it, people would have complained that the first read wasn't to your ProBowler/clutch guys like Dez or Witten, but to lowly Beastley...

 

[Texas Ace]

I'll leave it alone, but I just can't see how it was a bad read or decision. Took brass ones to make that throw and I credit Romo with going after it.

It sucks because that game had so many plays that could have gone either way for us and we would have won. Losing a tough game is shitty enough, but losing a close playoff game with the right to go to the NFCC leaves you to wonder about the what-ifs as we're doing now.

It's just time for us to let it go because all we're doing is torturing ourselves.

Bring on the offseason.

 

[Texas Ace]

Had Beastly dropped it, people would have complained that the first read wasn't to your ProBowler/clutch guys like Dez or Witten, but to lowly Beastley...

I'm sure there would be, but again, if you have any sense then you'd completely understand why he'd go to the open man with the favorable matchup.

I completely understand why he went to Dez and I don't think he made a bad decision, just not the best decision in that particular situation.

 

[Angrymesscan]

Again everyone talks about wide open Beasley based on that screenshot, where is the presnap shot that shows Beasley wide open?

 

[Genghis Khan]

Nobody would be whining about throwing to Beasley for dropping a ball if he was wide open and would have had the first down. People would just simply be pissed at Beasley for ending our season.

Correct.

 

[Carp]

You guys are not being honest now, but moving on.

 

[Rev]

Again everyone talks about wide open Beasley based on that screenshot, where is the presnap shot that shows Beasley wide open?

There was a CB lined up with him but as Romo is going through the cadence he turns and moves to blitz. That leaves the safety 5 yards back.

 

[p1_]

I'll leave it alone, but I just can't see how it was a bad read or decision. Took brass ones to make that throw and I credit Romo with going after it.

And that's precisely how we've played to get to that point in the season, with aggressiveness.

 

[Genghis Khan]

I will say this: We know what Romo is. He is a gunslinger deep down. In that situation, I would prefer a wiser course of action. But, this is what you get with Romo. We've certainly benefited from his gunslinger many times. And it's hurt us at times too. But you live with it, because the good far outweigh the bad. It is just the other side of the gunslinger coin gets you sometimes. It's the same with some of the sacks.

And damn if he and Dez didn't almost make it work. Lost in the spectacular catch from Dez is that it was a hell of a throw, too.

 

[Genghis Khan]

You guys are not being honest now, but moving on.

Seriously? It would be retarded to blame the QB when the WR drops a sure 1st down. Of course I wouldn't have a problem with that scenario. That was the best percentage play.

 

[Texas Ace]

And damn if he and Dez didn't almost make it work. Lost in the spectacular catch from Dez is that it was a hell of a throw, too.

Yup.

It had to be a perfect throw in order to give Dez the chance to make a play on it, and perfect it was.