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Posted by nickeatman at 2/23/2011 4:38 PM CST on truebluefanclub.com
Last week, Rob Ryan said a lot of interesting things. Some of them might have been bleeped out for you guys, but there were plenty of other G-rated things that piqued my interest.
One thing he said, in reference to his own coaching job last year in Cleveland was how well the defense did in the first and third quarter “when coaching matters.” Obviously, he’s referring to how the teams do coming out of the locker room, as opposed to the second and fourth quarters when the flow of the game takes over.
I get it and if it’s something that Rob Ryan believes, then I could buy into that.
So, I went back and looked at the Cowboys’ 2010 season and looked at the first and third quarter scoring. Now, like anything you do with last year, you have to break things up into first half and second half. (You know Jason Garrett is focused more on what happened in the final eight games when he had total control.)
Ok so in the first quarter, the Cowboys were outscored 85-70 in all 16 games. In Garrett’s last eight games, opponents outscored the Cowboys 41-40. Remember, the Cowboys had Jon Kitna and Stephen McGee starting those eight games.
As for the third quarter, the Cowboys finished the season with a 106-95 scoring edge overall. But it’s a tremendous jump in the final eight games of the season. When Garrett took over, the Cowboys scored at least 10 points in every games except for McGee’s only start in the season finale when the Cowboys didn’t score in the third quarter in Philly.
Overall, the Cowboys outscored opponents 82-43 in the third quarter of the last eight games. And apparently, that’s when coaching matters.
Last week, Rob Ryan said a lot of interesting things. Some of them might have been bleeped out for you guys, but there were plenty of other G-rated things that piqued my interest.
One thing he said, in reference to his own coaching job last year in Cleveland was how well the defense did in the first and third quarter “when coaching matters.” Obviously, he’s referring to how the teams do coming out of the locker room, as opposed to the second and fourth quarters when the flow of the game takes over.
I get it and if it’s something that Rob Ryan believes, then I could buy into that.
So, I went back and looked at the Cowboys’ 2010 season and looked at the first and third quarter scoring. Now, like anything you do with last year, you have to break things up into first half and second half. (You know Jason Garrett is focused more on what happened in the final eight games when he had total control.)
Ok so in the first quarter, the Cowboys were outscored 85-70 in all 16 games. In Garrett’s last eight games, opponents outscored the Cowboys 41-40. Remember, the Cowboys had Jon Kitna and Stephen McGee starting those eight games.
As for the third quarter, the Cowboys finished the season with a 106-95 scoring edge overall. But it’s a tremendous jump in the final eight games of the season. When Garrett took over, the Cowboys scored at least 10 points in every games except for McGee’s only start in the season finale when the Cowboys didn’t score in the third quarter in Philly.
Overall, the Cowboys outscored opponents 82-43 in the third quarter of the last eight games. And apparently, that’s when coaching matters.