How the Packers Offense DOMINATED the Cowboys | Packers-Cowboys Film Review 

Dallas defense looked pitiful to me 😭

It looked pitiful because LaFleur played them like a fiddle. Attacked their concepts perfectly.

@@TheScoutingPack I seen Micah get took out of those zone runs almost instantly😭

@@TheScoutingPack yeah let me just shut up and finish the video 😂💯

Play #1: busted. Play #2: for no discernible reason, a defender lets Doubs go free even though the defender has no one else to block. Even then Love throws _REALLY_ late & almost gets Doubs injured. a _lot_ of YAC was missed because of where & when he threw that *to a completely open receiver that he almost missed.* #3: worked. But by #4 the question "is this the Packers being good or the Cowboys self-destructing due to horrible play-calling" is already being answered. A light box on the goal line? This is Mike McCarthy, always cringing under pressure & calling what he thinks are failsafe plays but they're not. He thinks he has Just Enough players spread out when the last thing you want in this area is to randomly spread your defense out. How a play-caller can be in the league this long & not know this is beyond me but it's not like he's the only one. NFL team owners are _business owners._ They have No Idea What makes a good or winning coach. So they hire *what they **_think makes_** one* but based on business acumen. "Players are my employees. So coaches must be the supervisors. I should hire whoever I think would make a Good Supervisor." & the answer to that is always the Tyrannical Moron who pushes the employees around. Goodbye Bisacchia & your Winning Ways, hello Josh McDaniels & the Terrible Times. Before anyone says McCarthy doesn't call the defense, Yes He Does when he gets stressed. Go back to every game he was HC in & lost & you'll see the same structures. He may relay it _through_ the DC but they're His Calls. Sean McVay *Just Hired* an assistant because he realizes that his play-calling sometimes goes to rot under stress & he is absolutely right. The _only_ HC I currently *know* doesn't lose his cool at that time is Andy Reid. Which means every HC needs such an assistant. I hope this starts a trend because guess what? Matt Lafleur does this too, & often. When his schemes _don't result_ in immediate success he starts yelling even if there's no one around & typically doesn't adjust for over 20 minutes of playing time. The *first two passes* Love made that game were completely off yet were caught because the Dallas defense were being coached by someone in a complete state of confusion. Lafleur can't keep his head either when down in regular-season games, let alone important ones.

The halting diction is annoying however

Appreciate that! Currently busy with work and recently started coaching WRs for a team in France - but definitely planning on getting some draft content out soon!

Must be the teacher in me, which is my day job 😅

@@TheScoutingPack Gifted teachers are magicians of the world. It is breathtaking how a good teacher can turn pack of distracted teens into young sponges excited to learn.

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I’m sure their staff has wayyy more advanced analytics and access to more camera angles than I get. For the moment, I’m keeping things Packers focused, but will definitely be looking at 49ers film to show things to look out for. I’d love to branch out into more, but can only handle so much as one person 😅

@@TheScoutingPackI hear that! Don't want to burn out, i've been there. But don't short yourself, man, seeing some of the decisions coaches make yikes. They could use people like you :)

Epic Pen. Same thing JT uses over at QB School. Pretty simple program, and great!

Thanks! I subscribed. Can’t wait for more breakdowns!

Which play are you talking about? Melton had nothing close to a clip. If you’re talking about the cut block on Parsons, that isn’t clipping. Clipping is from behind. If it is head-to-head, it is a legal cut block because the defender has the opportunity to avoid it.

@@TheScoutingPack 25.13 mark. Melton blocking Lewis. You comment that he stays engaged but he engages on his block which happens as you make the comment. He clearly behind trying to work towards the front or side, clearly outside the tackle box. Its okay, the packers worked the cowboys but that kind of comment is a bit much. We know the refs are soft of such calls which is why teams involve wrs in blocking schemes like they do.

That’s not even close to a clip…

@@TheScoutingPack Sure, and the first pick wasnt PI and surely Dez never caught that ball just like Melton continued the block he never made. We understand.

You don’t understand the rules if you are calling that clipping. Clipping has to be below the waist and from behind, it is rarely ever called now because people don’t do that anymore. He’s on the front shoulder and the DB reaches towards the runner which is why he falls. If there’s anyone who calls shit how I see it, it’s me. Just last week in my Bears game breakdown I made it a point to say “I don’t know how that’s not a penalty” on Owens for unnecessary roughness while hitting a sliding QB.

I think the Lloyd and Jacobs duo will end up being fine. Two dynamic runners with decent vision. Can’t wait to watch them!

Dak seemed a bit rattled early on, which is strange. He played really well this year, but all it takes is one bad day in the playoffs to be scrutinized.

A lot of MLF schemes have read progressions based on the coverage presented, so many plays can beat either man or zone. And a few of the big plays were against man: Wicks TD, Musgrave’s TD, Doubs Over/Sail route with Gilmore on him. Just great play design to be able to attack both effectively.

7 step drop and play action, so he has to take a little extra time to get his eyes around and diagnose the coverage. If the post-snap coverage doesn’t line up with what he saw pre-snap it changes who he should throw to.

@@TheScoutingPack I guess. But if the 7-step drop was by design, what was the intention there? That in-breaking route was the zone beater...seems odd to pair that with a 7 step

​@@TheScoutingPackalso...seems like he should have made the post snap recognition quicker. 2 safeties, MFO, there isn't much disguise here. Sorry to pick nits. Definitely not trying to hate on him. I'm only now digging into GB film and learning what I can. Seems like a lof of long developing dropbacks in this scheme. Is that by design?

Makes sense to nitpick though. There are certainly things to work on. The throw he made isn’t open if it’s C2 instead of Tampa 2. So I’m sure he first looked to Watson and then took a step back to make space and hit Doubs.

Also, for the drop backs, this was specifically for Dallas. Being under center and having long play fakes forces Dallas to respect the run on every play. Definitely by design.

Usually one of the last reads on an inside zone, by the team he makes that read, it’s already too late.

@@TheScoutingPack But the read he did make took him right into the back of his own blocker. Wasnt really much of a read at all. Not trying to nitpick Jones as he's been absolutely balling the last month. Just noticed there was a chance for a big play there if he had cut it back to the right once the safety committed to the inside gap.

It’s technically within 5 yards of the line of scrimmage as the EZ yards don’t count. DBs are coached to push out WRs who go to the back line because it makes them an ineligible receiver. If the ball is in the air and he’s the intended target, it’s PI, but nothing else really.

Weird because Green Bay ran a lot of zone and split zone.

Seems like Gilmore was just having a tough night with execution. Maybe they’re hoping the rush gets home and by playing off and soft they can break on short routes, but Love was able to diagnose the blitz and get 7on7 in pass pro. Hard to win as a DB in that situation.

@@TheScoutingPack completely agree. Quinn’s has his corners squating a lot to jump on quick breaking routes especially out breaking routes.

@@TheScoutingPack LaFleur had and awesome gameplan. I think him and Quinn were on the same staff at one point. Lafleur knew and Barry knew he could fool Quinn and MM with pre snap motion and give a different look post snap and had protections and blocking schemes that would win. Also, when Green Bays WR just purely win vs these “all pro” CBs and win badly as a DC you have to come up other ways to win. I think that’s why Quinn went to more and more zone looks. Couldn’t get to the QB, CBs, we’re not winning and they were losing guys on the field. Have all eyes back on the QB. This was 90% about great coaching can be soo efficient and having the guys play with confidence

Coaches overthinking things. Try to break tendencies in the playoffs, but end up playing something your players aren’t comfortable. By the time they got back into playing man, it was too late.

Good playcalling forces bad decisions

@@TheScoutingPack True but completely missing wrs in routes isnt really about play calling all of the time. We may like to think so but it was pretty clear on the tight end td pass as an example that the two inside backers/dbs completely missed an easy assignment and the way the defense was set. The inside guy on that design is supposed to cover any wr who releases from the right side and the outside guy stay outside in case the QB rolls that way or runs. Both defenders sat down and stayed wiht the QB. That is a clear assignment missed but we can pretend your HC tricked them. If that is what you want to believe

There’s two outcomes: If the Packers win the Super Bowl against the Ravens, it’s scripted - because it will follow the exact same path as 2010. Lowest seed, beating 1 and 2 seeds, and then playing an NFC North division rival in the NFC Championship, before beating an AFC North opponent in the SB. 🤣 The other conspiracy theory is that the SB matchup is the Ravens and 49ers because of the SB logo colors.

His poise and command of the offense both in the huddle and at the LOS are not that of an average QB. Does he have things to work on? Yes. Footwork and deep ball are things to work on. But those things are offseason focal points. A first year starter playing like this isn’t normal when you compare it to QB play around the league.

lol, show me on the doll where he hurt you.

Should I tell him that downvotes don’t send notifications?

@@TheScoutingPack Works every time though, you saw my comment. Maybe it is a false correlation, but when I downvote and then comment, I get attention. Like a cheat code for interaction.

@@TheScoutingPack Those are the same exact things he had to work on in college. And he struggled with the same exact throws. You can look up his throw/route chart from college, his succes on the 9, the post, an out, etc. Where every type of throw his entire career was tracked. The throws he struggled with, he still does. The throws he didn't, he still does not. He's thrown the ball at least 100,000 times in his life, he's not going to improve with a throw that he struggles with after the 100,001st rep. My ultimate point. This was not a qb worth drafting round 1, then setting on for 3 season, he was not worth closing a championship window for. He is not worth purposely closing that window in order to start fresh...4 years down the line. There have been so many qb's in numerous rounds that they could have drafted to play like this. This is play design more than Love being good. Those are mostly first read or second read throws, and they are often late. What happens when Lafleur can't out game plan the opponent? Love struggles. The Ravens have beat this scheme 5 times this season, luckily we did not play them. GB could have drafted to win a championship then, they could have drafted weapons then, they could have tried to win the SB and got a QB for the future. Is Love better than Browning? Probably not. Is he better than Minshew??? Probably not. Sounds like we could have played for that title and gave a 4th rounder for Minshew, or signed a Baker, and we'd get the exact same production. Hindsight tells us all of this. The smart defense will let Watson run 1 on 1 deep, every single time. That is a 50/50 ball at best. Love is yet to hit a wr downfield in stride when throwing over 30 yards. He can't make that throw. Sounds similar to Goff. The irony being our coach is buddies with that coach that had the similar but better player comp(Goff is more accurate and will make that throw, sometimes and can hit it in stride, sometimes) and he traded his a$$ because he was convinced all these limitations eventually matter v. the best defenses. Then he won a SB. There was no reason to covet Love like they did and then close that window. The fact that Lafleur and Gute looked to scapegoat anyone that they could after that loss to TB is the reason they made that pick. It is Lafleur's fault they lost that game. The defense took the ball away 3 times the second half v Brady, GB kept going 3 and out and then punting it back. He decides none of that was his fault and he fired that defensive coach to hire his family friend and then he drafted a new qb. THEN he played stupid and pretended he wanted Rodgers...because Love showed up practicing and they were like, 'oh, shat, this is going to be much more difficult to work with, fack' and they were willing to placate Rodgers. Until Adams told them to get f'ed, they drafted no weapons, they had a 300 lb TE fumbling away the prior seasons chance to do something and they had a #1 wr that was healthy scratched by the NYJ some games this season for being lousy (for undrafted dudes!!!). THEN they run Rodgers out of town and what is the first thing that they do??? Spend a high pick at wr and draft two te's that can run. Because they realized the entire cupboard was bare. Cusp of the SB, thrown away to bench a qb for 3 seasons. That worked once, but only because he was a HOF player, otherwise it was stupid when they drafted Rodgers too. Love is not him, we can stop pretending.