Sure I can (have it both ways). I know the dolt doesn't call the plays, but that doesn't mean he can't walk over to his OC during a break and tell him what he wants. Or question his OC when he goes shotgun on 1st down at the 5 yard line. Or not burn any time off the clock and give the ball back to the opposing team with the game on the line in the final two minutes.
Those are strategical game time decisions that he should be involved in.
I just don't see how Garrett who has been so consistently limited in type of plays, game management, game strategy, versatility in the offense, philosophy that Romo should pocketpass and not run (like Parcells thought he should) and showing very little interest in the element of surprise ("just beat the guy across from you") since arriving in 2007, suddenly dumps out his whole hidden bag of motion plays, read options, reverses, jet sweeps, Beasley targets (because Dak said he was "always open" but Dooley graciously expanded Beasley's route tree only two years ago?!?!), reverse stretch plays (from zone blocking), and whatever thing that was that Whitehead ran through the O-line into a skinny post???
So Jason has had those plays all along but now we are in the "done building" part of the process so we can finally install all these plays and strategies that he has held away from the team for all those years?
Nope. If anything. This is indicting. This shows what should have been done years ago.
Before the start of the 2015 season Linehan said that he only gave Romo suggestions based on the personnel.
Follow this here: Romo would get the play personnel and make the decisions and adjustments from there. Running plays aside Romo was running the same playbook from 2007. Linehan only gave suggestions.
What we had seen over the last 5 wins would be impossible to do based on suggestions. These are actual plays with precision choreography and deceit. Dallas has fooled the cameramen in games and lost track of where the ball was. That's screams the evil kryptonite word that haunts the Garrett philosophy: UNPREDICTABLE.
But because we have seen the nonsense for 9 years now, when the offense is in the Achilles heel of Garretts passing offense, the red zone, and the number 1 running back in the league is taken out of the backfield and even off the field - not even to be used as a decoy, then something is very very wrong but very very familiar. When your QB and RB each have out scored any other RB/QB combination in the league by running the ball in the red zone, why would Linehan pull them back and make them pass and not even hint that they may run.
He wouldn't because he hasn't for 5 straight games.
But Garrett would. Because he has for 9 straight years.
