Is it just me? Blitz, blitz, blitz Dallas (Pound Romo)

[ZoEd]

Is it just me or does anyone else want to see us blitz the living crap out of Romo this weekend? It's pretty much a given GW is going to play the same D this weekend that he's played the past two. Why? Does it really matter? Brady picked us apart and with ST and Los out Romo will too. Doesn't it only make sense to just send everything but the kitchen sink? Hit him hard and often, inflict as much pain as possible. According to GW's "they expected us to do this and that" philosophy this is what we should do. They're expecting us to play bend don't break so why not just play break, Tony Romo's neck. :D

I know for me it would a much more enjoyable game to watch if we kept planting Homo on his ass, permanently wiping that annoying ass smile off his face. Please tell me I'm not the only fan who would find enjoyment in watching Romo get the snot knocked out of him even if we lose. Don't get it twisted I want to win at all costs but busting his ass would be the perfect salve for our woes if only for one week. Anyone with me? :cheers:

[skinsfan07]

I wish Gregg W would listen to you, but he won't, we will give Romo all day and he will pick apart our injured secondary.

[DGreenistheBest]

Seriously, there is no ST so we've already lost. We have two choices.

1) Play cheese**** soft D in the hopes that our second string secondary will step up and make the stops. They will probably make a few good ones since our LBs are pretty good and Landry is a star in the making, but overall we'll get burnt up the middle one too many times.

2) Make sure Tony remembers this win for the rest of his life. We'll get burnt up the middle just the same, maybe a couple more times. The score may be further apart. The loss may seem more embarrassing. But Tony Romo will be sitting on his *** once a series, penalty flags be ****ed. And that is the kind of statement this team hasn't made in a long time. I want him celebrating this victory in a cast. And if Landry thinks he can do the same for TO or Crayton across the middle, please be my guest. Its dangerously close to the time of the season where you stop worrying about you own playoff hopes and start looking into ways to change other teams' fortunes. If it wasn't for the NFC being so bad overall, it would be that time now.

[Drunken Master III]

my question still remains... When did the Skins' D become a base Tampa 2 :doh: . Its tough to watch the D sit back and watch the offense pick us apart. Where has the G. Williams of 2005 gone?

[MTechnik]

That, sadly, is going to be an ugly game.

Tony's hardest decision is whether he can complete a TD pass to people they have inactive. This will be because everyone else will have lined up and gotten TDs by that point in the game.

[Touchdown Redskins]

I think Gibbs conservatism has permeated every rank of our coaching staff, GW included. He sits back in his Cover 2, which has magically morphed into a 60-minute prevent defense, and lets good QBs do their worst. If I were GW I'd be ashamed. Is it any wonder that teams have started to figure out how to score points on our predictable defense just as teams have figured out our predictable offense as the season has worn on?

BTW, I'm still mad at GW for not having the balls to blitz Tom Brady like crazy at the end of the game when they went for it on 4th and 1 twice. We should have laid him out so hard that Bellicheat would have had no choice but to take him out. It seems there is no pride or accountability on this team, and it's making me very mad.

[THEHEREAFTER]

This was the Giants plan. Pierce was quoted as saying "were going to have to knock the smile off of Romo's face." The G-men blitzed early and often but Our O-line picked it up and they got torched.

[5XC's]

PLEASE blitz!!!!! the way the O-line is blocking you will get the score ran-up on you real quick. look what happened when the Vagiants sent more than they think Dallas could handle. T.O. TD....Crayton TD. PLEASE blitz i say.

[FrFan]

Too many injuries to do it, but it would have been great to be able to chase Romo all over the field.

[5XC's]

This was the Giants plan. Pierce was quoted as saying "were going to have to knock the smile off of Romo's face." The G-men blitzed early and often but Our O-line picked it up and they got torched.

was no where to be found after the game....looks like he was the only one with his smile wiped.

[PorkSkins]

GW's defense is a shell of it's former self. Why in the heck do you take your best playmaker, ST, and put him 20 yards back on every play? The Iggles had no real threats at WR and we were playing them like they had world class speed. I don't look for anything exciting from this defense against the Pukes. We have played prevent D six of the last seven games. The only thing we have been preventing, is the win.

[MTechnik]

PLEASE blitz!!!!! the way the O-line is blocking you will get the score ran-up on you real quick. look what happened when the Vagiants sent more than they think Dallas could handle. T.O. TD....Crayton TD. PLEASE blitz i say.

The problem is that with how our secondary is beat up, we can't play the cover game like williams and gibbs love to do. If Donovan in his inaccurate state is able to go crazy on us after ST left the game, Tony will get insane numbers.

[rskinz2win]

Without shawn taylor its going to be another blowout!

[ZoEd]

Seriously, there is no ST so we've already lost. We have two choices.

1) Play cheese**** soft D in the hopes that our second string secondary will step up and make the stops. They will probably make a few good ones since our LBs are pretty good and Landry is a star in the making, but overall we'll get burnt up the middle one too many times.

2) Make sure Tony remembers this win for the rest of his life. We'll get burnt up the middle just the same, maybe a couple more times. The score may be further apart. The loss may seem more embarrassing. But Tony Romo will be sitting on his *** once a series, penalty flags be ****ed. And that is the kind of statement this team hasn't made in a long time. I want him celebrating this victory in a cast. And if Landry thinks he can do the same for TO or Crayton across the middle, please be my guest. Its dangerously close to the time of the season where you stop worrying about you own playoff hopes and start looking into ways to change other teams' fortunes. If it wasn't for the NFC being so bad overall, it would be that time now.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. Nothing would make me feel better than driving Tony in the ground, over and over and over again. F the flags, F caring about getting burnt just play physical football and hit every mo fo who touches the ball right square in the mouth. Won't mind seeing Clinton and Big Mike laying some sumbiaches out either. Body bag game anyone? Too bad our coaches will never allow this to happen. It's more classy to get your ass handed to you while looking like a pathetic bunch of vaginas. :2cents:

If we win then we have bragging rights but if we're going to lose please give us something to rub in the Cowturds face, please!

[seanyt]

Yeah were going to blitz alright, were going to have the front 4 yelling BLITZ while they rush Tony HOMO...

[isle-hawg]

We currently have a *****y secondary. With Rogers and Taylor out, Smoot questionable, Springs not exactly the model of health, and Macklin not impressing anybody this year, they are going to tear us apart regardless of how much we blitz.

[ZoEd]

:applause:
We currently have a *****y secondary. With Rogers and Taylor out, Smoot questionable, Springs not exactly the model of health, and Macklin not impressing anybody this year, they are going to tear us apart regardless of how much we blitz.

That's my point, so why not decapitate Tony Romo? At least then we'll have something to smile about.

[h8dacowgirls]

:applause:

That's my point, so why not decapitate Tony Romo? At least then we'll have something to smile about.

Exactly, Hit Tony Homo every play. Let Laron do the job I would be willing to donate some money to pay the fine. All I want to see Sunday is Homo planted in the turf, piled on etc. And if plastic man (Jerry Jones) goes down to the sidelines then send Sellers on a sweep and pop his ***** too.:dallasuck

[mcarey032]

He let Brady kill us at 52-7. He did nothing. I am sorry when you are a coach in this league and you are letting the opposition disrespect you like that you need to retaliate and do something, yet the redskins didn't do anything in that game. His approach was don't get beat deep. At 28-0 don't you think it is time to make an adjustment? I am no NFL coach, although I play one on TV(Madden 08), I would say that you should take it to him, yet they did not really introduce any kind of blitzing until the jets game and even then it was inconsistent. Williams needs to rethink about blitzing. I know he thinks that they have some sort of dominate front four, but from what i have seen this year, they have been getting sporatic pressure upfront. The defense needs to send the house if they want to even have a chance at being competitve in this game.

[MUSICCITY]

Dont be philly like. Redskins fans are normally true football fans not Philly punks. You are an emberassment to your fandom.

To speak to the more articulate skins fans, blitzing the boys is a bad idea. The Bills played cover two with disciplined 4 down lineman and it worked to perfection. Romo learned from the experience and started checking everything down. Philly and the Giants brought the house and got beat by the blitz. The Boys are good against the blitz for three reasons.

1 Romo is elusive and slides to buy time as well as any QB. He doesnt run down the field but passes even if its a throw away. Big plays come from this.

2 The O line has no kinks in its armor. Stunts and blitzes are stoned at the line.

3 Jaws said it best when he said that Romo wasnt Marino fast in his release but he was fast. Click,Click, bang the ball is out. Romo is a blitz beater.

[Davethegolfguy]

The front 4 has to make an impact. Then you can send an LB or DB in the rush. But Romo loves to run right so BE THERE. Run the rush that side,

[isle-hawg]

:applause:

That's my point, so why not decapitate Tony Romo? At least then we'll have something to smile about.

Ok it's not like we can expect to win regardless, if we take off homo's head we will at least have one good take away from the game.;)

[luckycow]

Is it just me or does anyone else want to see us blitz the living crap out of Romo this weekend? It's pretty much a given GW is going to play the same D this weekend that he's played the past two. Why? Does it really matter? Brady picked us apart and with ST and Los out Romo will too. Doesn't it only make sense to just send everything but the kitchen sink? Hit him hard and often, inflict as much pain as possible. According to GW's "they expected us to do this and that" philosophy this is what we should do. They're expecting us to play bend don't break so why not just play break, Tony Romo's neck. :D

I know for me it would a much more enjoyable game to watch if we kept planting Homo on his ass, permanently wiping that annoying ass smile off his face. Please tell me I'm not the only fan who would find enjoyment in watching Romo get the snot knocked out of him even if we lose. Don't get it twisted I want to win at all costs but busting his ass would be the perfect salve for our woes if only for one week. Anyone with me? :cheers:

yeah, the giants are with you and it cost them a loss (sweep to be exact), 31-20....:silly:

[h8dacowgirls]

Ok it's not like we can expect to win regardless, if we take off homo's head we will at least have one good take away from the game.;)

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :applause: :dallasuck

[HeHateMe]

He'll probably think long and hard about that strategy.

Giants and Eags just got burned trying to employ it the last 2 weeks.

[Lee55055]

blitzing dallas next weekend would be the smart thing to do.......




so don't expect to see it happen.

haha sorry, truth hurts.

[Hailskins94]

This team doesn't make adjustments, when are people going to realize? Sure we would like to see them change something from week to week especially since it seems the defense is slipping a bit. I'm sure we will play coverage because it just makes too much sense to pressure them a little....

[New]

Without shawn taylor its going to be another blowout!


Cant argue with ya. Our only shot is to do exactly what we all hate, play super smart, ultra conservative, run, run, pass, punt kinda football, and hope we catch a few of those passes and sustain long drives. Keep away is our only shot this week! Possible but not probable.

:dallasuck

[Bigmuss1]

It's not gonna be good, whatever we do

I know let's kick a lot of FG's and hope they magically will be worth more than TD's

[ImRickJamesB]

To speak to the more articulate skins fans, blitzing the boys is a bad idea . The Bills played cover two with disciplined 4 down lineman and it worked to perfection. Romo learned from the experience and started checking everything down. Philly and the Giants brought the house and got beat by the blitz. The Boys are good against the blitz for three reasons.

1 Romo is elusive and slides to buy time as well as any QB. He doesnt run down the field but passes even if its a throw away. Big plays come from this.

2 The O line has no kinks in its armor. Stunts and blitzes are stoned at the line.

3 Jaws said it best when he said that Romo wasnt Marino fast in his release but he was fast. Click,Click, bang the ball is out. Romo is a blitz beater.

You pretty much said it all right there.... Great post!

Blitzing the Cowboys is the probably the WORST thing you could do!

The O-line and Backs will stiffle most blitz attempts before they even get close to Romo, because (as you said) he's fast on the release....

Even when nobody's open and Romo has to hold the ball longer than usual, you still cant get to him most of the time, (as you said) he'll just make a couple of side steps and you fly right by him, he's too elusive!

IMO the best strategy for defensing Romo, would be to only rush 4, even 3 alot of the time, and drop everyone else into the throwing lanes...

However, when it comes down to it, the only question this week, is how do the skins want to die? Slow and painful, or just unload the clip and get it over with..... It's all the same in the end!

HTTC:notworthy

[JRAB]

Nothing would make me feel better than driving Tony in the ground, over and over and over again. F the flags, F caring about getting burnt just play physical football and hit every mo fo who touches the ball right square in the mouth.

You would quickly run into fines, ejections and reputations that would follow these players into free agency and beyond.

I wouldn't mind it either... but the reasons we won't see it is because the NFL isn't like it used to be. Loyalty to a franchise used to be the norm... not anymore. Guys look out for their reputations and their own careers.

Besides, every single time I've seen Romo blitzed this year... he's burned it bigtime. I actually think you do better by providing pressure with your front 4 and flooding the passing lanes with the other 7 guys.

Thing is... our DL is so weak that Romo will be able to write a novel back there if we don't send someone besides the DL.

It could get ugly. :doh:

[TheItalianStallion]

Just like the key to offense is balance, so is the key to defense. Mix it up between playing coverage and playing pressure. And when you do send pressure, mix up the looks and where they come from. Another key for our D will be to play solid O, sustain drives, and get the ball in the damn end zone.

[JRAB]

At 28-0 don't you think it is time to make an adjustment?

:laugh:

You would honestly think. I suppose he isn't paid enough to make stinkin' adjustments.


I am no NFL coach, although I play one on TV(Madden 08

:applause:

That actually made me LOL'erz.


I know he thinks that they have some sort of dominate front four, but from what i have seen this year, they have been getting sporatic pressure upfront. The defense needs to send the house if they want to even have a chance at being competitve in this game.

I can't say as I disagree with you. However, like I said earlier, Romo has absolutely crisped defenses who send the blitz. He has far too fast a release, makes way too quick decisions, and their OL is way too good for blitzing to bother Dallas at all.

The DL is by far the biggest problem we have on defense. For Romo, Brady, Manning and... well that all... the ideal thing has been to get pressure with the front 4 and then flood the passing lanes with bodies.

However, the best in the NFL at that has been the Giants and Romo ***** slapped them around yesterday. They tried blitzing. They tried rushing 4 and dropping 7. They tried everything in between with a VERY loud crowd to screw up Romo's audibles... and they still ended up way behind with Dallas running out the clock.

Honestly, I don't know what I'd do if I were Gregg Williams. I suppose after all is said and done, I'd probably mix in some blitzes and do everything I could to slow down their run game. I'd try to substitute as much as possible, because the Dallas offense really wears teams down in the second half. Flood the pass lanes mixed in with some disguised blitzes and have a spy on Romo on third downs, if possible. Also, have a LB shadow Barber when he's not getting a handoff because he can kill you with short dump-offs that he takes across the field and up the sidelines.

That, and hope for mistakes by Dallas. IMO, out schemeing (coaching) their offensive coaches is about the only chance we have of slowing them down. :2cents:

[stroupjr]

AGREED. Blitz. Nothing to loose.

[jwsleep]

Blitz without ST playing center field? I don't see it.

Here's an idea: play D the way Buffalo did for all but a little of that game. GW still has a friend or two there, doesn't he? Call em up.

[ZoEd]

Okay, so maybe blitzing isn't the BEST way to beat Romo but turning loose a missle to lay his punk ass out sure would be fun to watch. Same for Brady, punk ass wants to run up the score, activate one of the practice squad players send him on on the first play of the game, give him an Aikman type concussion and go back to cover 2. I'm just so sick and tired of seeing his grinning ass plastered all over the f'ing news. If it doesn't irriate you then maybe curling is a better sport for you to follow because it should irriatate the crap out of you. :D

For all of you "serious" posters, this is kind of a tongue in cheek thread, I don't wish permanent injury on anyone. Just pain and suffering for the rest of the season and uncontrollable flinching the next time we play them. :D

[FunBunch7]

Is it just me or does anyone else want to see us blitz the living crap out of Romo this weekend? It's pretty much a given GW is going to play the same D this weekend that he's played the past two. :cheers:

What Defense is that...the one where our safeties play 25 fricken' yards off the line of scrimmage against a team with no deep threat like Philly?

Imagine what T.O., Crayton and Witten will do if we play the same defense.

The way I see it, if we come with an all out blitz, we WILL get beat for at least 2 deep Touch Downs...

...BUT...

Maybe we could force a turnover or two and knock Romo on his arse.

This is our only chance...otherwise, this will be a repeat of the Patriot game.

[Monk4HOF]

Odds are we will give Dallas the 25 yd cushion we gave NE and Philly on D. If that's the case, chalk up another loss for us.

[bobzmuda]

Gregg Williams will mix it up this week, taking some cues from the Bills.

[deejaydana]

we are already at a stage where we may as well try anything on both sides of the ball. Really, we don't have much to lose at this point.

[Backpack3r]

I think we should blitz the hell out of Romo also. Its been proven that when we blitz we play better, look what Landry is doing!! He is decapitating QB's

We should bring Marcus washington down as the 5th lineman a lot this week and of course send Landry...he is so fast to getting the qb, even if he doesnt get there on time it will eitehr force Romo out of the pocket or throw a bad ball

[DallasCowboyFan156]

I've gotten to the point with this Cowboys team where I like it when teams blitz. Romo just tends to step up in the pocket or sidestep the pressure and then fire it downfield to Witten, Crayton or TO.

[cnhnyy]

Whenever armchair QB fans get desperate, they offer two plans:

1) Offense: open it up, throw downfield

2) Defense: Blitz

If only things can be that simple to be fixed.

Blitz Romo with our questionable secondary is the worst idea ever. he probably won't have to play the second half after being busy throwing TDs in the first.

Look at Bills defensive strategy against cowboys and that is what we should employ.

[STBonecrusher21]

Without shawn taylor its going to be another blowout!

:doh: Come on, not on your first post.

[Bacon]

I want him celebrating this victory in a cast.

Right on. Kick Romo's ass or forfeit now. I mean it.

[DC Little E]

There's really no point in blitzing. GW is actually making the smart choice. We blitz alot, we lose by a lot....PERIOD! You have to keep everything in front of you, make them take small chunks and hope that they get impatient and get a turnover. They have too many ways and players that will absolutely kill us if we blitz. It's what they WANT us to do. Unfortunately Buffalo beat us to that strategy and Dallas seems to have it sussed now. If we play the "GW Mega-deep 2" those chunks will be medium and fairly easy to get. So, we have to find a way to get pressure from our front four, which I dont see happening against their O line. So, basically we're fukked. The only difference is if we play the mega-deep 2 we lose 34-17; if we blitz, we lose 55-17.

I see us with utterly NO chance and I have too many Cowboys fan friends. This will be one of the hardest week/weeks/months/seasons of my life as a redskins fan.

[ZoEd]

There's really no point in blitzing. GW is actually making the smart choice. We blitz alot, we lose by a lot....PERIOD! You have to keep everything in front of you, make them take small chunks and hope that they get impatient and get a turnover. They have too many ways and players that will absolutely kill us if we blitz. It's what they WANT us to do. Unfortunately Buffalo beat us to that strategy and Dallas seems to have it sussed now. If we play the "GW Mega-deep 2" those chunks will be medium and fairly easy to get. So, we have to find a way to get pressure from our front four, which I dont see happening against their O line. So, basically we're fukked. The only difference is if we play the mega-deep 2 we lose 34-17; if we blitz, we lose 55-17.

I see us with utterly NO chance and I have too many Cowboys fan friends. This will be one of the hardest week/weeks/months/seasons of my life as a redskins fan.

So there you go; if we're F'd no matter what why not take a couple pounds of flesh outta Homo's ass?

I guess I need to change the title to Sarcasm or something. I don't want to blitz because I think it's the best way to win, I want to blitz so someone can get a piece of Romo, over and over and over again.

[GoodtimesNBigD]

As a die hard Cowboy fan I think this strategy is not going to work.


Blitzing Romo usually ends up in big plays. It will be interesting to see if you guys play off like you did against Brady.

Always love the rivarly!

[DaBoys84]

As a die hard Cowboy fan I think this strategy is not going to work.


Blitzing Romo usually ends up in big plays. It will be interesting to see if you guys play off like you did against Brady.

Always love the rivarly!

Two different styles of QB...Brady is a pocket passer, requiring his receivers to make him look good, and his line to give him the time to find that open man.

Romo is a Favre type of QB...he can sit in the pocket, but unlike Brady, when you pressure him, he can get away, elude the sack, and still find the open receiver.

I think it was in a pregame show on Sunday that someone said, "most QB's scramble to run. Romo scrambles to pass."

[[[ghost]]]

Landry should be moved to a 4th Blitzing LBer this entire weekend. If Homo doesn't regret not handing the ball off, we've failed.

[Warpath11]

No way in hell do we blitz Romo without Sean Taylor in the game (even with him in the game I would resist the urge to blitz). We are going to see an even softer defense then usual and pray we get some pressure from our front 4 (LOL). Here is to Romo stinking up the joint.

[jthor99]

Greg Williams more than likely will play the cover 3 zone this week like all season. Since IMO Jason Witten creates a mismatch for our defense because quite frankly i havent been impressed with any of our LB'ers cover skills this season.

But, i also feel if Coach Williams wants to bring the heat this sunday he has to bring it from the Cowboys right side of the OL.

Romo loves to roll to his right, and throw out of the pocket. Gregg Williams needs to send Landry on blitzes from the outside edge all day to force Romo to his left. Which, if you've ever seen film when Romo has struggled (ala Buffalo) he struggles when he is forced to move to his left and throw off the run. I think if Gregg Williams can create pressure from that side of the ball there will be opporunites for some turnovers IMO.

[dieselfan44]

that two deep safety **** ain't gonna work this week. If we blitz and play that soft deep coverage Romo will use his TE's to burn us. Love to see us go to a 3-4 for this game. Griffin at nose, Carter and Wilson at ends. LB's Mac, London, MW, Godfrey.

[TennCowboy]

So there you go; if we're F'd no matter what why not take a couple pounds of flesh outta Homo's ass?

I guess I need to change the title to Sarcasm or something. I don't want to blitz because I think it's the best way to win, I want to blitz so someone can get a piece of Romo, over and over and over again.Stay classy, San Diego.

[crank]

I am with you I hate when we play off the ball and sit back and wait to loss the game.

[jayl1985]

I cringe every time I see us come out in that stupid 2 deep safety, linebackers 7 yards off the ball set for most of the game. The funny thing is the average fan can see that when we blitzed we usually stop the other team. Another thing I want us to do this week is let landry take the place of taylor and have pierson near the line because it's no way he can stick with any of the cowboys wideouts. As of right now if we don't blitz romo we are going to get run out the stadium just like in the pats game. I know I'm not a nfl coach, but anybody can see his playcalling is killing us. BLITZ BLITZ BLITZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!