Week 4 Dallas Cowboys coaches film analysis

Originally posted by Afrikan:
Phoenix, you are showing the first play TWICE...and then a throw away pass play that has NOTHING to do with what was brought up..

The pass against the Texans was one of the firsts or the VERY first pass play of the preseason in 2015. Gabbert is doing this s**t in preseason and the regular season.

if you are reaching that bad, what does that say man?

People are acting like Kaepernick didn't have his own issues throwing deep and the many times he was flat out overthrowing guys down the field as he resorted to gunning the football instead of throwing it with some arc.


Gabbert is terrible throwing downfield but lets not act like Kaepernick was some paragon of pinpoint accuracy either.



http://blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers/2014/11/29/long-shots-49ers-offense-hasnt-thrived-with-kaepernick-going-deep-more-than-any-other-qb/

There's no doubting Kaepernick has one of the league's strongest arms. That helped make him such a fascinating prospect when he replaced Alex Smith in the midst of a 2012 run to the Super Bowl.

Kaepernick's accuracy, however, ranks 20th when it comes to passes of 20 yards or more, according to the stat gurus at Pro Football Focus. He's attempted a league-high 61 passes in that range, and he's completed 20, with four touchdowns and four interceptions.

Originally posted by Afrikan:

more often than not I'm putting money on Kapernick to make that throw in comparison to Gabbert.

That isn't saying much. Neither of them are what you would consider to be accurate passers.

Originally posted by Afrikan:
f**king hilarious. WHO SAID EVERYTIME?

more often than not I'm putting money on Kapernick to make that throw in comparison to Gabbert.

YOU EVER WANT TO TAKE THAT BET? I'm sure you would have this past offseason....lol.

Wasn't Kaepernick injured during that GreenBay game? Never mind that. Maybe Gabbert is injured now, we should give him the benefit of the doubt.

smh.....

I want to set up one of the key plays that I felt began the poopball rolling down the hill midway through the 2nd quarter by first showing a play that occurred in the 1st quarter. This was on the first DAL drive. The defense gets outflanked by the jet sweep and the ball carrier gains the edge.

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(below) This is the first play of DAL's first TD drive (2nd quarter). Last week, SEA converted something like 4 of 5 3rd downs where they were facing 3rd & 10+. Defenses work so hard to get into a favorable down & distance and it's times like that were defenses can make the offense one dimensional.
Here, DAL starts off their drive with a holding call to eventually face a 1st & 20 - with a rookie QB and missing their star playmaker. This offensive holding call should be a drive killer for the DAL offense. AA with some nice moves here faking the rip to get the RT leaning one direction, then a spin move back to the inside.

lol this thread getting hijacked with some old ass gifs. This is for the Cowboys game played 2 days ago, folks. Thanks, awp9182. For nothing.

Originally posted by thl408:
I want to set up one of the key plays that I felt began the poopball rolling down the hill midway through the 2nd quarter by first showing a play that occurred in the 1st quarter. This was on the first DAL drive. The defense gets outflanked by the jet sweep and the ball carrier gains the edge.

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(below) This is the first play of DAL's first TD drive (2nd quarter). Last week, SEA converted something like 4 of 5 3rd downs where they were facing 3rd & 10+. Defenses work so hard to get into a favorable down & distance and it's times like that were defenses can make the offense one dimensional.
Here, DAL starts off their drive with a holding call to eventually face a 1st & 20 - with a rookie QB and missing their star playmaker. This offensive holding call should be a drive killer for the DAL offense. AA with some nice moves here faking the rip to get the RT leaning one direction, then a spin move back to the inside.

I see where you're going with this....and I like it!!! *cue that screen pass please*

Originally posted by jreff22:
WR separation?

I wanted to give you a snapshot that summarized a few plays when Dal was in man-coverage.



This was par for the course. Gabbert threw a few strikes in small windows - like this one. You really can't ask for much more accurate of a throw - but he couldn't do it every time. Sometimes, there was less separation.

Originally posted by SofaKing:
Defense really seems to be in bad shape. I knew the loss of Ian Williams would be huge, but I was honestly expecting Purcell to play better than he has. Hopefully Dorsey gets a crack at starting NT duties soon, although he hasn't exactly looked great either.

The loss of Bowman is insurmountable. The defense was struggling as is. Once Bowman went down, the floodgates completely busted open. He was the glue that barely held everything together. Dallas got everything they wanted on the ground and through the air once Bow went down. I don't see how this changes for the rest of the year.

Only thing to look forward to is the continued development of the young players. Buckner, Armstead, and Robinson have a lot of promise. Young vets like Reid, Lynch, Ward, and Dial really have to step up and become the leaders of this unit.

It really is...we lost cornerstones on defense right down the middle with Williams + Bowman + Ray-Ray. And it doesn't even include the fact that guys are already playing through injuries or not playing at all such as Tartt, Ward, Dorsey, Lynch, Redmond, Davis, Armstead, Buckner, etc. That's 11 players right there. And it's only going to get worse.

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:
In Baltimore he was praised for his run blocking so I don't know what is going on. As far as I know it was never an issue for him, even if you go and look at his draft profiles...etc.

Strengths Smith possesses outstanding straight-lined speed and good size measurables. Explodes off the line of scrimmage. Flashes the ability to high-point the football. Has the second gear needed to threaten a defense vertically. Eats up cushions and can track the deep ball well. Plays with passion, exhibits great effort while run blocking, and has intangibles.

He probably doesn't believe in the plays that are being called.

Originally posted by jonnydel:

I see where you're going with this....and I like it!!! *cue that screen pass please*

Yup. You know it.
This is the very next play after the offensive holding call. It's 1st & 20. DAL is going to run a RB screen towards the right side of the OL, but they dress it up by faking a jet sweep (end around) type of handoff (yellow).


The fake has just been completed. Bethea and Bow bite hard.


Dorsey one of the playside DL gets poked in the eye or something because he simply walks off the field instead of recognizing the developing screen and chasing it down from behind. Dorsey is a vet and I've seen him identify screens as they are unfolding. Here, he can't because he's hurt. You can see from the all22 gif of him walking off the field.


Elliot just caught the pass. Bow and Bethea have removed themselves from the play. There's 9 defenders on the wrong side of the field.


+19 yards on a 'simple' screen pass. That's too easy. They would eventually move the chains and get a TD. I know the Tartt penalty seemed like the turning point, and there's a strong case for that, but this play here let DAL off the hook.

Originally posted by jonnydel:
But it's also disingenuous to show a couple of CK highlights and not act like he hasn't had his own struggles throwing the ball. What about this one from a game against the Packers??


That time he had 2 receivers wide open and threw an INT into double coverage to Boldin...

It's not that CK does this every time, but saying that he'd throw a strike on that throw to T Smith every time doesn't mean it'd be true. Both Gabbert and CK have shown a lot of reason why they shouldn't be starting for any team.

Bottom line right here...now back to the breakdowns.

Originally posted by jonnydel:
Here's an example of what I talked about when I said Tiller and brown have struggled with some of their run game blocking. It's a 'damned if ya do, damned if ya don't" situation. When Tiller helps Brown, he fails to get to the 2nd level and the defense has free guys running around. When he doesn't, Brown struggles with his reach blocks.


We're going to run an inside zone-read play. This is one of the plays that Tiller gets to the 2nd level but Brown isn't quick enough to make his block.


42 is the unblocked defender and the read for the QB. He's keeping contain, so the QB has to hand it off. The DT is quicker than Brown off the snap and gets inside of Brown right from the get-go. This is key because Brown had a good enough angle and Tiller as well, that the DT wasn't going to be able to take on both blockers.


His guy slips by and gets down the line. Tiller gets to the LB, but it's to no avail.


1 yard gain.

Beginning to see this every week where a DT shoots his gap and blows up our run.

Originally posted by jonnydel:

Originally posted by jreff22:
WR separation?

I wanted to give you a snapshot that summarized a few plays when Dal was in man-coverage.



This was par for the course. Gabbert threw a few strikes in small windows - like this one. You really can't ask for much more accurate of a throw - but he couldn't do it every time. Sometimes, there was less separation.

I thought this was Gabbert's best throw of the day in terms of reading leverage on a man defender and placing it well. The Celek one handed catch was nice, but I'm giving the nod to this one that you posted.

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:
People are acting like Kaepernick didn't have his own issues throwing deep and the many times he was flat out overthrowing guys down the field as he resorted to gunning the football instead of throwing it with some arc.


Gabbert is terrible throwing downfield but lets not act like Kaepernick was some paragon of pinpoint accuracy either.



http://blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers/2014/11/29/long-shots-49ers-offense-hasnt-thrived-with-kaepernick-going-deep-more-than-any-other-qb/

There's no doubting Kaepernick has one of the league's strongest arms. That helped make him such a fascinating prospect when he replaced Alex Smith in the midst of a 2012 run to the Super Bowl.

Kaepernick's accuracy, however, ranks 20th when it comes to passes of 20 yards or more, according to the stat gurus at Pro Football Focus. He's attempted a league-high 61 passes in that range, and he's completed 20, with four touchdowns and four interceptions.

Who is saying that Kaep never had issues? Name one person that stated he was perfect and didn't have issues.

Seems like some people have a hard time deciphering the difference between a QB making a out of character bad play and a bad QB consistently making bad plays.

Showing a ball intended to be thrown out of bounds as some sort of indictment on any QB is ridiculous. I can pick any single QB in the league and find dumb plays by them. But Gabbert continuously struggles making plays that any functional QB regularly makes.

Comparing the two IMO is nonsense. One is a struggling starter, the other is a bonafide backup.

Originally posted by NCommand:

Originally posted by SofaKing:
Defense really seems to be in bad shape. I knew the loss of Ian Williams would be huge, but I was honestly expecting Purcell to play better than he has. Hopefully Dorsey gets a crack at starting NT duties soon, although he hasn't exactly looked great either.

The loss of Bowman is insurmountable. The defense was struggling as is. Once Bowman went down, the floodgates completely busted open. He was the glue that barely held everything together. Dallas got everything they wanted on the ground and through the air once Bow went down. I don't see how this changes for the rest of the year.

Only thing to look forward to is the continued development of the young players. Buckner, Armstead, and Robinson have a lot of promise. Young vets like Reid, Lynch, Ward, and Dial really have to step up and become the leaders of this unit.

It really is...we lost cornerstones on defense right down the middle with Williams + Bowman + Ray-Ray. And it doesn't even include the fact that guys are already playing through injuries or not playing at all such as Tartt, Ward, Dorsey, Lynch, Redmond, Davis, Armstead, Buckner, etc. That's 11 players right there. And it's only going to get worse.

Yikes, when you list them all like that you really get a sense of how banged up the defense is. It's crazy. Been snakebit since 2013, can't wait for the year we have a healthy season for change.