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Last week I posted about Romo's ability to throw the deep ball and how Garrett failed to play to his QB's strength. There was this from Monday in Atlanta.
Romo attempted only three passes that traveled at least 20 yards. Two of them were complete for 94 yards and a touchdown, bringing Romo’s deep ball passer rating to 106.5 in 2012. Historically one of the best deep passers in the NFL, Romo has attempted such a pass only 10.7 percent of the time this year.
There is the lack of creativity. He does the same thing over and over.
In a game in which I thought Garrett might spread the field and really open up the offense, we saw more of the same old Cowboys offense on Sunday night. Tony Romo threw just two playaction passes—both completed for 19 total yards. On the season, the Cowboys have completed 79.2 percent of their 26 playaction passes. They’ve totaled 11.5 YPA and a 107.8 passer rating on playaction looks, allowing zero sacks in the process.
One of Garrett’s playaction pass calls was a screen to Miles Austin—just the 12th screen pass all season. Only seven screen passes have gone to running backs. When the lack of downfield passing attempts shows Garrett doesn’t have confidence in the pass protection ability of his offense line, you’d expect more than one true screen per game from the offense.
The deep pass to Kevin Ogletree came on an out-and-up, marking just the fifth double-move the Cowboys have attempted all season. That’s five passes on double-moves in eight games! Romo is 3-for-5 for 128 yards and two touchdowns on those attempts, and he was two Dez Bryant fingers away from a third touchdown on a double-move
And finally, in a game in which the offense saw 50.8 percent of their rushing yards come on just two medium-length carries, the ‘Boys failed to run a counter for the sixth game this season. After averaging 7.2 YPC on triple-digit counters since 2009, we’ve seen two counters in all of 2012.
In the last two weeks Dallas has shown life in twice. Both times the game was lost and Garrett went to the no huddle-spread offense. The thing with this move is Garrett doesn't call plays, Romo does.
Against the Giants Dallas trailed 23-0 when the did the NH-SO. Free of Garretts play calling the offense responded with 24 points and a Dez glove away from winning the game.
Monday night in Atlanta we watched more of the same. Dallas trailed by 9 midway through the 4th quarter when Garrett got out of the way. Dallas responded by going the length of the field for their only TD of the game. Color man, Chris Collingsworth, commented "where has that been" after the TD.
Garrett is the issue. Look at the numbers and they don't lie but instead show a head coach that is not and may never be to coach an NFL team. I don't want to see my QB walking off the field like this.
Romo attempted only three passes that traveled at least 20 yards. Two of them were complete for 94 yards and a touchdown, bringing Romo’s deep ball passer rating to 106.5 in 2012. Historically one of the best deep passers in the NFL, Romo has attempted such a pass only 10.7 percent of the time this year.
There is the lack of creativity. He does the same thing over and over.
In a game in which I thought Garrett might spread the field and really open up the offense, we saw more of the same old Cowboys offense on Sunday night. Tony Romo threw just two playaction passes—both completed for 19 total yards. On the season, the Cowboys have completed 79.2 percent of their 26 playaction passes. They’ve totaled 11.5 YPA and a 107.8 passer rating on playaction looks, allowing zero sacks in the process.
One of Garrett’s playaction pass calls was a screen to Miles Austin—just the 12th screen pass all season. Only seven screen passes have gone to running backs. When the lack of downfield passing attempts shows Garrett doesn’t have confidence in the pass protection ability of his offense line, you’d expect more than one true screen per game from the offense.
The deep pass to Kevin Ogletree came on an out-and-up, marking just the fifth double-move the Cowboys have attempted all season. That’s five passes on double-moves in eight games! Romo is 3-for-5 for 128 yards and two touchdowns on those attempts, and he was two Dez Bryant fingers away from a third touchdown on a double-move
And finally, in a game in which the offense saw 50.8 percent of their rushing yards come on just two medium-length carries, the ‘Boys failed to run a counter for the sixth game this season. After averaging 7.2 YPC on triple-digit counters since 2009, we’ve seen two counters in all of 2012.
In the last two weeks Dallas has shown life in twice. Both times the game was lost and Garrett went to the no huddle-spread offense. The thing with this move is Garrett doesn't call plays, Romo does.
Against the Giants Dallas trailed 23-0 when the did the NH-SO. Free of Garretts play calling the offense responded with 24 points and a Dez glove away from winning the game.
Monday night in Atlanta we watched more of the same. Dallas trailed by 9 midway through the 4th quarter when Garrett got out of the way. Dallas responded by going the length of the field for their only TD of the game. Color man, Chris Collingsworth, commented "where has that been" after the TD.
Garrett is the issue. Look at the numbers and they don't lie but instead show a head coach that is not and may never be to coach an NFL team. I don't want to see my QB walking off the field like this.
