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Still not in favor of keeping a coach who is still developing the just basic skills just to coach a complete team for a complete game (without wasting time, opportunities, and talent along the way), but...
...there is something new going on here. Maybe there is a new day dawning for Garrett in controlling the game. Or maybe someone or many of the coaching cooks in the kitchen are making a better stew than has been on the stove for the last 3 years.
1. The quick throws and short passes, particularly with Witten and Beasley (2 obvious mismatches for LBs) give Romo high percentage throws that not only move the chains but are probable for longer YAC gains.
2. The onsides kick was pure Jimmy Johnson and Parcells. Completely surprise, but also adding to advantage and keeping a psychological advantage (which was Jimmy's forte).
3. The use of more personnel seems to have changed as well. Keeping vanilla people and vanilla formations and vanilla routes with vanilla snap counts just hurts the team: it's not an advantage because it's not fooling anyone. The only success that seems to happen is when the play breaks down and the vanilla gives way to a chaos of individual flavors. But Murray leaving the Redskin game when it seemed like he was going to be rested until the playoffs only to come back in, showed a coaching maturity and an attacking game planning that kept the Haslett defense on the heels. Dunbar and Randle are starting to be dangerous change of pace players because their game film from this year shows a great deal of huge gains ripped through a defense.
4. There have been signs of routes and plays that are based on natural picks and misdirection. The best way to play the Lions and especially Seattle is to force their aggressive coverage to over pursue or interfere with another defender's coverage.
5. Romo is moving past the LOS. He is just as capable of picking up the first down as anyone.
I'm not sure why things have changed, my hunch is Garrett as the consummate copycat is realizing that the Packers, not the Patriots, are truly a scary offense and he has been petitioning his higher ups (Jones) and his hire ups (Linehan and Callahan) to mimic some of the WCO.
This Lions game will speak volumes about whether Garrett has turned a corner or perhaps just woke up to a new light. I still can't stand the unfavored stepchild mentality of the running game and hate the obvious "Coryell" pass routes and plays that continue to put the QB and the time of possession at risk, but maybe, just maybe, if Jason is somehow the reason for the recent changes and he is the author of this newly attacking team...
...then re-signing him and keeping him as a head coach is a good thing.
...there is something new going on here. Maybe there is a new day dawning for Garrett in controlling the game. Or maybe someone or many of the coaching cooks in the kitchen are making a better stew than has been on the stove for the last 3 years.
1. The quick throws and short passes, particularly with Witten and Beasley (2 obvious mismatches for LBs) give Romo high percentage throws that not only move the chains but are probable for longer YAC gains.
2. The onsides kick was pure Jimmy Johnson and Parcells. Completely surprise, but also adding to advantage and keeping a psychological advantage (which was Jimmy's forte).
3. The use of more personnel seems to have changed as well. Keeping vanilla people and vanilla formations and vanilla routes with vanilla snap counts just hurts the team: it's not an advantage because it's not fooling anyone. The only success that seems to happen is when the play breaks down and the vanilla gives way to a chaos of individual flavors. But Murray leaving the Redskin game when it seemed like he was going to be rested until the playoffs only to come back in, showed a coaching maturity and an attacking game planning that kept the Haslett defense on the heels. Dunbar and Randle are starting to be dangerous change of pace players because their game film from this year shows a great deal of huge gains ripped through a defense.
4. There have been signs of routes and plays that are based on natural picks and misdirection. The best way to play the Lions and especially Seattle is to force their aggressive coverage to over pursue or interfere with another defender's coverage.
5. Romo is moving past the LOS. He is just as capable of picking up the first down as anyone.
I'm not sure why things have changed, my hunch is Garrett as the consummate copycat is realizing that the Packers, not the Patriots, are truly a scary offense and he has been petitioning his higher ups (Jones) and his hire ups (Linehan and Callahan) to mimic some of the WCO.
This Lions game will speak volumes about whether Garrett has turned a corner or perhaps just woke up to a new light. I still can't stand the unfavored stepchild mentality of the running game and hate the obvious "Coryell" pass routes and plays that continue to put the QB and the time of possession at risk, but maybe, just maybe, if Jason is somehow the reason for the recent changes and he is the author of this newly attacking team...
...then re-signing him and keeping him as a head coach is a good thing.
