Screen me Baby

Bring the blitz…let ’em, and then dump the screen. I wanna see Austin in on this too!

Best way to stop the blitz is pull a screen on’em.

   I may have missed it, but you never mentioned T. Choice. He proved to be a very capable receiver in his abbreviated action. I’m of the opinion that Choice would be the best back to play early when the defense is fresh, because he’s shown to be productive against tough Ds. He’s able to find a crease and gain positive yards, not a game breaker, but I think the best Choice in this role. Jones is your home run hitter, Barber IMO is better as a closer. Because of egos and $$ I don’t think that will happen, but at this point that looks to be the best play. Go back and look at the stats, Choice had a better per carry avg and receiving avg.

its about time, we could be one of the best screen passing team in the league. ALSO HOW ABOUT SOME TRICK PLAYS (worked perfect for Miami last year) We ran maybe 1 last year and it worked

With his workout partners blowing chunks, that tells me one thing; Barber realizes he has some competition. He’s going to show up in the best shape of his life, and I’ll bet the farm he has been working on his passing routes, as well. I bet he’s been bugging the heck out of Garrett for plays that feature his strength, which is his brute strength. Now I haven’t forgotten about Jones and Choice, and I really believe we should use them all, but with all the talk about getting the new kids involved in the running game and screen game, watch out for Barber. He’s gonna bring it. I think the Barbarian is poised for his best season yet.

All that being said, Jones will be featured in the passing game, and he has already proven he can run in this league. I say forget Deon Anderson. Have two of your three thoroughbreds on the field at all times. Defenses will never know what’s coming.

That’s a lot of catches for a RB-and Moose got some too.
But they weren’t screens usually, they’d float him out 1-1 on a LB.
What fun to watch!

I think Norv Turner maybe wanted something different, and we’ve never gotten back to it.
Somewhere in there, there’s an analytical post about Turner’s x’s and o’s and why he used RB’s differently as receivers. Was it the talent he had (for instance, Emmitt ran a LOT more lead draws than other backs because he favored them), or was it a philosophical thing for the OC?

One possibility-The OLine was so good there were very few games they needed a screen to offset a pass rush? Smith stayed in and blocked, or went out on a short route (or both), but there sure have been a lot of us posting in more recent times, during and after games when Romo’s been under pressure, “Haven’t you heard of a screen pass!”

Garrett comes from Turner’s coaching ‘tree’ so it would be interesting if Turner ever offered any insight into why he didn’t screen more.

The Cat would end up being a fantasy superstar in this league. I see him scoring on those at least 30-40% of the time he touches the ball on screens.

maybe just maybe the coaches of the Cowboys over the last 15 years or so know something that we don’t about the o-line or the running backs on the team. I’m pretty sure if they thought it would make them successful they would do it. I really can’t see them saying “well, we could probably eat the Eagles up with this play but darn it, I just don’t feel like calling that play.”

I’m with all of you guys on this one. I would love to see them run more screens. And I can’t even count the number of times I have screamed at the T.V. for them to burn all teams that are blitz happy with it. But I just have to assume that they know something I don’t. And thats why its not called as often as we would all like. Frustrating as hell though.

And that WR screen, which I hated. But the collective wisdom is right, we simply don’t run screens to our RB’s. The collective wisdom is also correct in that Landry era teams in the 70’s and 80’s were outstanding RB screen teams.

Remember, JG is a product of the Norv Turner/Ernie Zampese school – it was a vertical passing, power running philosophy. Troy went on record loudly and often that he hated the screen as well. Not to be confused with delays which he ran very effectively to Emmitt.

Let’s hope the RHG adds this to his bag of tricks. Against PHL in last year’s finale and the NYG playoff game the year before it was apparent we had no effective counter against heavy blitzing.

I think of the giants playoff game….. all it would of took was ONE screen in the second half :’(

Didn’t it seem like everytime he touched the ball last year, he was never brought down by the first guy?

I remember in the SuperBowl, Pittsburg ran a TE type of screen to Heath Miller that was just a freaking thing of beauty.

It might actually be his first catch in the regular season, nowhere near sure though. I remember that was the exact moment I hopped on the MartyB bandwagon.

But a very good point you bring up. And I also concur with the “no WR screen” motion. MB3, Felix, Choice, MartyB, etc. could all punish opposing Ds when they’re going all out with the blitz. I recall it working well against New York in their second game. I think they actually used it fairly frequently towards the end there, just to bail Tony out and force NY to be a little more cautious about dialing up the blitz. It’s kind of weird that they didn’t stick with that tactic later in the season, given how effective it worked the limited amount of times they chose to go that route.

for the tasteful caption of jim johnson… if you read our newest homepage post, we’re not exactly counting on JJ coming back next season anymore….