Cole Beasley Womens Joe Looney Jersey , Scott Linehan seem to indicate that Dak Prescott needs to trust his arm and receivers Are you ready for another take on the Cowboys offensive woes? In fact, this take suggests that a lot of outside analysis has been wrong.Cole Beasley dropped these comments about the Cowboys receiving corps and their performance so far on the 2018 season.To some extent, Beasley is right. I have watched the game tape for each performance by the Cowboys in 2018, specifically focusing in on the offense. There have been opportunities in the passing game that are not being exploited. Beasley’s comments suggest it’s happening all the time, which would be somewhat of an exaggeration, but his underlying point holds - the receivers are creating opportunities. He even mentions the “s” word, a buzz word for the Cowboys ever since the offseason.There it is - separation. That’s been the key word applied to the Cowboys receiving corps and a big reason for the revamp this offseason. The natural logic that would follow this goes something like: if the receivers are getting open, then the problem must be with the quarterback. Beasley tries to cover for that, but there is some implied finger-pointing here, no matter how much Beasley tries to be the good teammate and not go there. So following the logic chain of “a lot of variables” there are only really two here. Either Dak Prescott is not seeing or throwing accurately to the receivers, or the offensive line is failing to provide protection. In the Cowboys case, there is a little of both. We’ve documented the problems the Cowboys offensive line is having, but they aren’t the sole source of the problem. Scott Linehan adds another piece to the puzzle with his recent comment. He doesn’t come out and say it, but he seems to imply the same thing Beasley is getting at, Prescott needs to trust his arm Youth Kavon Frazier Jersey , and his receivers, and “sling it.”If you have watched the game tape (the All-22 version), you would likely come to similar conclusions. For whatever reason, Prescott is not trusting himself to throw it deep or intermediate. There are times you can see him looking at a receiver, who by NFL standards is most definitely open, and not pulling the trigger. Other times, you can see a receiver will be open once he makes his break, but Prescott is not trusting that situation and so he doesn’t attempt the throw. Prescott is the anti-gunslinger in 2018. He wants to protect the ball at all costs and will take the checkdown all too often, even to the team’s detriment. He’s not trusting his arm or the receivers and just slinging it.Those who think that Prescott’s and Linehan’s comments yesterday about slinging it meant that the game plan is to come out and throw 50 times against the Lions (who have the top pass defense and the worst run defense), are likely misinterpreting what they are saying. More likely what they mean, and it’s the logic that runs through all of this, is that when the opportunity is there, Prescott must sling it, he must trust himself and let the ball go. Obviously there are things that Linehan can do to help Prescott. As has been noted in other places, most notably an article in The Ringer, Dallas should start incorporating more play-action into the play-calls. Prescott seems to get a better rhythm on these Youth Jaylon Smith Jersey , and the play-action, especially with Ezekiel Elliott rounding into form, will slow the pass rush and help fool the coverage. The other thing Linehan needs to do is increase the amount of stack/bunch formations to give the receivers cleaner releases, and combine that with rub routes to open things for yards after the catch. Prescott’s natural tendency is to throw short, so give him some opportunities to hit guys and let them run after the catch. The Cowboys most effective play in the passing game so far seems to be slant/crossing routes to Beasley, let’s get more guys involved in that and get more confusion in the coverage in hopes of breaking some of those into big plays with yards after catch. If you want to criticize Linehan for the offensive woes, this is probably the area that rings the most true, he needs to alter his vertical passing routes concepts and incorporate some of these types of plays.The offensive line needs to block better, Linehan needs to throw in some new stuff to accommodate Prescott and put defenses off the scent, but in the end Prescott needs to trust himself and his receivers. There’s a joke that says in the NFL if you’re single-covered, you’re open. That’s an exaggeration, but what it implies is that NFL receivers should beat single coverage enough times that the quarterbacks have to trust their receivers. They have to sometimes throw before the receiver makes his break and trust he’ll be there. The quarterback has to take some chances and trust that his receiver will make them pay off even with a defender nearby. The Cowboys don’t need to sling it 50 times a game, but when the chances are there, Prescott most definitely needs to sling it.Cowboys Poll: Who do you blame for the disappointing offense? The Cowboys’ season opener in Carolina came and went, and Dallas left the field with a 16-8 loss. The main talking point around the game was how terrible the Cowboys’ offense was. Naturally, the losses of Dez Bryant and Jason Witten were expected to present an adjustment period for the passing game Womens Chidobe Awuzie Jersey , and Travis Frederick’s absence leaves a big, bearded hole in the offensive line no matter how well Joe Looney may have played. The Cowboys still have a lot of offensive weapons, though, the biggest being Ezekiel Elliott. He only carried the ball 15 times and got 69 yards off of it, with a touchdown on a well-executed speed option play. Dak Prescott, who spent most of the summer refining his footwork and mechanics as this offense was reshaped to become more “Dak-friendly,” struggled mightily. When he didn’t have defenders breathing down his neck (he was sacked six times) he was under-throwing receivers or not picking out the open receivers. He averaged 5.9 yards per pass attempt and failed to score aside from his scramble for a two-point conversion. From a play-calling perspective, offensive coordinator Scott Linehan started things off with a very diverse selection of plays: screens, bootlegs, split zones, and much more. The problem was that most of it didn’t work, or that the plays were negated by penalties. Things started picking up later on when Linehan began calling more conservative and traditional types of plays, but also when he started to spread the Carolina defense out. Nevertheless, an offense with so much potential was limited to eight points and 232 total yards of offense. So we ask the question: