Barfarn
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7 years ago
Spring break 2015 Dak and some MSU mates got the crap kicked out of them by a group of real gangsters; he’s lucky to be alive and physically well.

For the most part the rookie wall is no longer a real thing; College teams do play 7-11 games less; but its the hitting in practice that wears ya down. NFL rules greatly limit practice time and reducing hitting to almost nothing, a player going to NFL from a major college program probably feels like he’s relatively going for spa treatment.

This doesn’t apply to QBs ‘cause they don’t get hit in college or NFL. But, the mental workload Prescott’s been under is a billion times what it ever was for him at MSU. Now the pressure of playoffs is heaped on top, plus playing at home with talk about resurrecting the great Dallas dynasties. Dak has to be feeling mental fatigue and pressure that adds to the mental fatigue, he’d have been better served for his first PO game to be on the road.

Dak looked like Hundley in week 17 on 8 throws; so basically Dak has had 3 weeks off. And this is what will undermine his ability to play on Sunday. For the season metaphorically Dak has mentally run a hard 10K race for the first time. Then he sits down for an hour and eats a couple of bagels. Now an hour later [Sunday] he’s gotta get up and start running again. He won’t be running anywhere near as fast as before he took his little break.

Prescott throws deep accurately as long as conditions are perfect. If he cant step up comfortably in the pocket or if he feels pressure he loses his deep accuracy. Aaron loses 5% of his accuracy when he moving on the run; Dak loses A LOT more.

The Dallas game plan has Prescott, hand off, and throw a lot of very very short passes. He throws a lot more passes short right than anywhere else. If the D plays the run with DL first playing run and LB first looking run; the play action will freeze the D and Prescott will hit some longer throws.

I want CM3 rushing in the center of the field. Line him up in A gap and have him time the snap count [not on 3rd and 5]. If he jumps offside a couple of times, that’s good, he’ll be cat quick all over Dak’s grill, and this will stick in Dak’s head.

Elliot will not beat us; let him have his 150 yards. Use run blitzes, one gaps, if Elliot gets 1 yard, he’ll probably get 7 or 8 or 12; that’s okay. We need to blanket those short receivers and get pressure up the center. If we shut down Dak, we win. I see GB rarely having more than 1 deep safety, Burnett will be in box stopping short passes and runs. If Dak hits a deep one, so what. In red zone, I want zero coverage.

When bringing a 4 man rush; only 3 guys should rush against the weakest OLman, and the 4th should act like a shadow. Dak can run. When Dak runs or does that zone read crap, ya gotta a hit him, even if he doesn’t have the ball. And this should have been worked on; Dallas could try to Kapernick us. This offense is similar to that SF team that ran over us.

Dallas fakes to Elliot and then passes to him; if Dak fakes hand off to Elliot TACKLE HIM and sit on him ‘til whistle.

If things go bad in 1st half for Dak [this is what my Magic 8-Ball is calling for]; Romo could come in; GB needs to spend a few morsals of some time preparing for this.
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7 years ago
I'm concerned Romo is going to come off the bench, as well. The point about mental fatigue and getting back to the level he was at is pertinent. The guy has been nothing short of amazing since preseason. Now, we'll find out if he's truly elite.

Hard for me down in DFW hearing all the hype all year. He backed it up until the 2nd Giants game. His arrow has been pointing down since then. Hoping it stays down. Marquee game of the playoffs. This one would make a great SB.
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luigis
7 years ago
Romo is not playing this game unless Dak gets hurt, so we should carefully take him to the ground and make sure he is ok for the next play.

I agree with the rest, I don't care about Elliot, we have to stop the short passes, and the problem is we are very very bad at that.
I want to see HaHa blanketing guys, not just standing in the middle peeking at the backfield.

I think the key to this game is to start strong, the team that starts strong is going to win by a snowball effect, you force the other team to do some risky things, they make mistakes you score more points...

Luis
Porforis
7 years ago
If the Packers get pressure they'll be fine.

Unfortunately, that's been a problem for a while now. I hope Dom's got something good cooked up for this one. I'd honestly rather let guys go one on one and send extra rushers than just let him sit back there comfortably for 10 seconds all game.
uffda udfa
7 years ago

Romo is not playing this game unless Dak gets hurt, so we should carefully take him to the ground and make sure he is ok for the next play.

I agree with the rest, I don't care about Elliot, we have to stop the short passes, and the problem is we are very very bad at that.
I want to see HaHa blanketing guys, not just standing in the middle peeking at the backfield.

I think the key to this game is to start strong, the team that starts strong is going to win by a snowball effect, you force the other team to do some risky things, they make mistakes you score more points...

Originally Posted by: luigis 



Don't agree with this...Jerry was hoping all year he could get Romo on the field. Jerry LOVES him. LOVES him. He's been biding his time waiting for Dak to screw it all up but he just never did, so Jerry couldn't make the move. Ironically, when the rubicon was crossed about Dak being the starter no questions asked his play slipped shortly thereafter. If Dallas is down and playing poorly, don't rule out Romo coming off the bench to provide a spark, even if Dak hasn't been touched all game.
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Ted Thompson sits on his hands per former GM: "because they’ve had 25 fricking years of great quarterbacks. Of course it works. Try it without a special quarterback."


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