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David Moore, Cowboys beat writer for SportsDayDFW.com and The Dallas Morning News, answered readers' questions in a chat on Friday. Some excerpts:
On if Mike Martz is on the short list of head coach replacements:
If you don't like the running game now, you really wouldn't like it with Martz as head coach.
On cutting some of the offensive and defensive plays:
I think there's something to be said for paring down the playbook when a team is struggling. Give players on both sides of the ball fewer packages to run in an attempt to improve execution. Then, once you regain your equilibrium, broaden the packages back to where they've always been.
The thing is, I'm not a coach. The Cowboys may simplify things a bit, but not much, and certainly not by 50 percent.
On if this is the beginning of the end for the Cowboys' key players (Romo, Ratliff, Newman, Gurode, Witten, etc):
All of the key players you mentioned will be key players again next season, if there is a season. This is a bad start, a very bad start. It doesn't signify the end of an era.
On if Jerry Jones has a plan if crowds decrease with a miserable season:
He's already locked in with a high number of season tickets. How would he address it? The way he swells the crowd now for big games. The party pass.
On offensive line coach Hudson Houck:
The Dolphins averaged more than four yards a carry in Houck's two years in Miami, something it hadn't done since the late 1980s. The Dolphins offensive line allowed 52 sacks the season before Houck arrived and 26 his first year on the job, so he must have done something right.
Jerry Jones calls Houck the best offensive line coach in the league. He's not going anywhere.
On the three elements of play the Cowboys need to improve to win this Sunday:
1. Improved running game
2. Limit turnovers
3. Force turnovers or sack Matt Schaub more than three times
On if Jason Garrett will go three wide receivers or two tight ends against Houston:
When the offense is clicking, they are usually their most productive out of their two tight end sets. That gives them more balance because they are a threat to run or pass. Since balance is the key word this week, I'd go with the two tight end sets.
On what is different this week for the Cowboys:
Wade Phillips altered how practice was run to get in more snaps. He said there won't be any personnel changes in the starting lineup, but he may tweak the rotation at a few spots. It won't be anything dramatic. There isn't much dramatic he can do.
David Moore, Cowboys beat writer for SportsDayDFW.com and The Dallas Morning News, answered readers' questions in a chat on Friday. Some excerpts:
On if Mike Martz is on the short list of head coach replacements:
If you don't like the running game now, you really wouldn't like it with Martz as head coach.
On cutting some of the offensive and defensive plays:
I think there's something to be said for paring down the playbook when a team is struggling. Give players on both sides of the ball fewer packages to run in an attempt to improve execution. Then, once you regain your equilibrium, broaden the packages back to where they've always been.
The thing is, I'm not a coach. The Cowboys may simplify things a bit, but not much, and certainly not by 50 percent.
On if this is the beginning of the end for the Cowboys' key players (Romo, Ratliff, Newman, Gurode, Witten, etc):
All of the key players you mentioned will be key players again next season, if there is a season. This is a bad start, a very bad start. It doesn't signify the end of an era.
On if Jerry Jones has a plan if crowds decrease with a miserable season:
He's already locked in with a high number of season tickets. How would he address it? The way he swells the crowd now for big games. The party pass.
On offensive line coach Hudson Houck:
The Dolphins averaged more than four yards a carry in Houck's two years in Miami, something it hadn't done since the late 1980s. The Dolphins offensive line allowed 52 sacks the season before Houck arrived and 26 his first year on the job, so he must have done something right.
Jerry Jones calls Houck the best offensive line coach in the league. He's not going anywhere.
On the three elements of play the Cowboys need to improve to win this Sunday:
1. Improved running game
2. Limit turnovers
3. Force turnovers or sack Matt Schaub more than three times
On if Jason Garrett will go three wide receivers or two tight ends against Houston:
When the offense is clicking, they are usually their most productive out of their two tight end sets. That gives them more balance because they are a threat to run or pass. Since balance is the key word this week, I'd go with the two tight end sets.
On what is different this week for the Cowboys:
Wade Phillips altered how practice was run to get in more snaps. He said there won't be any personnel changes in the starting lineup, but he may tweak the rotation at a few spots. It won't be anything dramatic. There isn't much dramatic he can do.