but I am pleased by the way they responded to that poor start.

The offense seems to have calmed down, guys know where they should line up, and now Romo can focus on his presnap reads.

Makes a huge difference.

That was one noticeable change in the offense. The first five weeks it was absolute pandemonium before the snap.

That had to have helped.

Cowboys have a 4:30 press conference schedule. Maybe DeMarcus is going to get his money.

THEY SAID THEY ARE HAVING A PRESSER TO ANNOUNCE DWARES EXTENSION.

complete confidence in, no matter the D&D. Yes, a couple were dropped, but Romo was on the money throughout the game.

i also noticed that we were at the line ready for the snap with 10 seconds or so to spare, look over the D, change the play, what ever needed to be done….

i mentioned a few weeks ago in an email to a friend, a list of things that i thought coaching was at fault for, and this was one of them…

in previous games it seemed that the O was ALWAYS rushed and that Romo had to snap the ball before he was really ready….

post. Makes me want to watch the game again.

they look quite on the same page as there were 2 false starts in a row (with one by witten!). But that might have been the first drive – the play right after the penalties was the romo scramble where he got hurt

i had us 4 and 2 at this point with my early predictiions… and ta da, we are….

however, i had us losing to the Panthers and the Falcons, not Denver and NY.

so with that said… the loss to the Broncos is made up for a little by winning against an NFC opponent i thought we would lose to (Falcons)… but the loss to the Giants still hurts, as obviously a division loss hurts more than a ‘regular’ loss.

First of all hate to complain about anything. We won. The Giants are in a skid. The Eagles are looking more like Bagels.

But I have a bit of an issue with Choice not getting a single carry. It would seem like he has been demoted… Now I know some of that was because the running game fizzled and Tony was hot but zero carries?

I am Ok with him not being the starter. That sort of thing happens when you have this much talent in front of him, but I do think he earned some playing time.

  (Yeah yeah he did play but I am talking playing time of some significance.)

And that Romo seemed more comfortable and accurate.

And that the play calling was more subdued, with no stupid calls killing a drive.

Hope all of this was planned and worked out by the coaches.
But , still, did they not really see these things before?

how EXCEPTIONALY well the rb’s picked up and blocked the blitz? I usually dont notice but it seemed they not only blocked well but were knocking guys on their ass

Unfortunately , as mentioned earlier it appeared to start coming together after Romo took that shot in the head. God, I hope he won’t need that each week. He did look the the best in the pocket that he had for a long time. You could almost see the confidence in his eyes at the line of scrimage. That was something I hadn’t seen for a while. He looked like the Romo of 2007. Keep it up boys.

Like some of those above, I found myself looking for the time left on the play clock because we so frequently are rushing at the end. I was pleasantly surprised when there seemed to be plenty of time, so much so that by the second half I’d forgotten about it pretty much. I think you’re absolutely correct about this “execution” as somebody put it being vitally important to that kind of performance by the offense in general, and Romo’s composure specifically.

I love the fact that you never see the naysayers after a win.

Watching Brees play the Giants last week I noticed on a good proportion of snaps the Saints snapped very quickly almost immediately after stepping into the position. I don’t recall seeing any other team doing this before but it seemed to me to work well.
While this reduces the pre-snap read it also seemed to catch the D before they were fully prepared for the snap. Further, with the way D’s try to disguise what they are doing this may mean you catch people out of position, a blitzer too far back, a safety in the wrong zone etc.

Most teams line up and then let the QB stand there and read the D, call protections etc. By going quick on a proportion of the plays it means the D can’t assume that the QB is going to stand there until its down to a few seconds before snapping – as a result it makes it harder for them to disguise what they need to move into position earlier to make sure they don’t get caught out.

When watching the game, it almost looked like they were going no-huddle. I was amazed at how calm Tony seemed before the play.