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Just cut his ass.
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Coaches who want to win, just find ways. They usually innovate. The. Belichicks, the Carroll's, the McCarthys, come to mind. A short pass offense can work if that's all you seem it be able to do. An offense with TEs as the primary targets can work if TEs are your strength. A run first or RBBC can work if that's all you have. The teams that are regularly ending up in the Super Bowl are amorphic and capable of adjusting their healthy talent to dictate the best chance they can for the whole game.
Look at 1999, on paper the Jeff Fisher Titans were not a complete team and really would bring doubt as to how they would get to 2 yards from winning the Super Bowl. The Motor City Miracle was not even the most impressive (and a tactic that the current Dallas HC would never consider), the most impressive was the chicken salad that Fisher made out of his rather atypical array of talent.
Dallas has enough at TE, they have enough on the OL, even with DMC and CMike, they should have enough for 4ypc. They have WRs like Beasley and Williams who are far better after the catch than running deliberative and abstruse patterns meant for faster players (or in Williams case meant for players who don't disappear and can catch a ball above his chin). Streets is a liability in the short pass because he really has no strength before or after the catch (Broaddus said that Weeden is only really impressive in 7 on 7 and I think Streets is similar). Dallas has a defensive coach and talent base that attacks and certainly if it's running game can extend time of possession and just get first downs, the defense can be punishing when it wants to.
But if the plan is to keep the offensive playbook the same and have everyone just run things the same way they have for the years before 2014-2015s 12-4 season, chances are there is going to be massive failure. Chances are in that decline, it's going to be "well if we had a healthy OL, and Dez had a better offseason or Romo wasn't hurt..." Romo was hurt, by the way, on one of the most repetitive Dallas play calls and formations that have plagued otherwise decent series and momentum. Senseless, non-sequitur pass plays that are so obvious and vulnerable that the momentum goes right to the defense. Air Coryell is supposed to be progressive gradually deceiving the defense into allowing the distance pass. Having no deceit and knowing the Garrett tendencies, the defense can just tee off on the QB at will, which is what happened in the Eagle game. They were just waiting for that offensive look and they got it.
But even with the injuries and limitation, there is still huge opportunity in one game at a time to muscle out some victories. This team can win and win now before Romo and Dez comes back. It has some real strength. Just needs adjustment and invention.
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I think Randle has done a fine job. He has shown the potential to be an all around back. Good pass blocking and good hands out of the backfield. I expected to see a few more explosive runs, but they just haven’t happened for whatever reason. I would scrap the running back by committee and let Randle take the bulk of the carries with Christine as a change up.
Offense needs more cohesiveness and sticking to one running back would help that. Run more play action, be less conservative and id like to see some different types of running plays.
Offense needs more cohesiveness and sticking to one running back would help that. Run more play action, be less conservative and id like to see some different types of running plays.