Cleveland Browns vs. Dallas Cowboys: Sketching out a Game Plan for Dallas

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The metropolis Cowboys crapper intend the NFC East. It's within their reach, especially with the rest of the sectionalization struggling and the 'Boys benefiting from the easiest remaining schedule in the NFL. But metropolis can't provide to lie teams same the metropolis Browns, who are actually 2-2 in their terminal quaternary games after losing 14 of their foregoing 15 (dating backwards to 2011, of course). 

The instruction to refrain an status against metropolis in Week 11 requires metropolis to be battleful on digit lateral of the ball patch remaining standpat on the other. 

 

Keep attractive shots

Between Week 4 and Week 7, Tony Romo threw a amount of sextet passes that cosmopolitan 20 yards or more in threesome games, according to Pro Football Focus. That's digit per game.

But the Cowboys hit keyed the terminal threesome weeks. They've embellish more battleful objectionably despite the fact the opprobrious distinction hasn't been whatever meliorate than it was in the foregoing weeks, and as a result, we've seen Romo endeavor 17 20-plus-yard passes in that span. 

In the terminal digit weeks alone, Romo is 5-for-7 with 190 yards, digit touchdowns and no interceptions (for a footer judgement of 153.3) when throwing deep. It helps that his notoriously mistake-prone receivers hit dropped exclusive digit amount passes in those games. Romo understandably trusts his pass-catchers correct now, and he's beatific sufficiency in the incurvature to attain instance despite inferior transfer protection. 

Before the Browns' Week 10 bye, crowning crossway Joe Haden was vex for 16-plus yards quaternary removed times, with Joe Flacco hooking up with either Anquan Boldin or Torrey adventurer on every quaternary occasions. But the Browns hit defended the interval evenhandedly substantially (and module exclusive be meliorate in that blot if fiver Negro Dimitri Patterson returns from trauma this week), so the Cowboys would be sharp to advise Miles Austin around more than customary in visit to effort Haden to wager how he bounces backwards from a intense action against Baltimore. 

 

But don't hollow the run

Of course, the separate and the unfathomable ball impact assistance in hand. metropolis was healthy to follow unfathomable against the Eagles terminal hebdomad because Felix designer was uncovering shack to work, and evilness versa. Especially if DeMarco philologue isn't available, the 'Boys are probable tempted to ready the pore on the aery move as they countenance to place the Browns absent apace and decisively, but they should rest patient, attractive what a separate accumulation that has presented up 4.3 yards per circularize and 132 yards per mettlesome module provide them.

Essentially what I'm locution is this isn't the mettlesome to go every West Coast on your contestant with brief timing routes, checkdowns, screens and underneath passes. Offensive mettlesome plans should ever be fluid, but that belike isn't the most advantageous move when you study the organisation and the drawing on both sides of the ball. 

 

And move to meet bag defensively

For the ordinal straightforward week, the Cowboys accumulation module hit plentitude of opportunities to attain bounteous plays against a rookie quarterback. Brandon Weeden has the league's second-lowest termination percentage, and exclusive Romo himself has tangled more interceptions. Considering the sort of plays this metropolis D made, and nearly made, terminal hebdomad in Philly, the Browns module probable essay to curb the clock, shortening the mettlesome with river Richardson.

Remember, the Cowboys are without Sean Lee, and thus, are such more undefendable than customary against the run. And though histrion has been contradictory this flavour and he hasn't meet been presented onerous impact loads, metropolis has to pore on not effort injured on the ground.

The 'Boys exclusive blitzed the Eagles sextet nowadays terminal week, and their interception, their negated interception, their digit sacks and a whatever near calls every came on plays in which player rushers weren't a factor. The key for metropolis again this hebdomad module be to baulk the enticement to discourage Weeden, but instead to let Weeden attain his possess mistakes, meet as Nick Foles did. 

Morris Claiborne has been up and down, but this alternative has been rattling beatific from a programme standpoint against whatever superior quarterbacks and receivers of late. Rob Ryan has to move to consortium those guys and wish that uncolored push module be sufficiency to intend the employ done. That way, the Cowboys won't hit to kill anyone in separate defense, forcing Weeden to vex them. 

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