Thursday, November 11, 2010

Penalties - Game 8 - Green Bay

http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/11/bob-sturms-penalty-analysis-vs-1.html

Penalties. One tangible department to look at a team that may or may not be disciplined. We have documented for you how this was not a problem of much substance with Bill Parcells as the coach. Then it became a major issue for the team with Wade Phillips in charge. Now it is Jason Garrett's turn.

Does he have the time to instill a sense with his players that silliness will not be tolerated? And that poor technique must be limited? Honestly, it would be foolish to expect a remarkable difference when the same players are in the uniform, but I will be interested to see.

Over the last few weeks, Dallas has actually shown improvement and fallen to 7th in accepted penalties and 8th in accepted penalty yardage against. But, Top 10 in both categories is par for the Wade Phillips course.


Game 8 at Green Bay:

WkQPlayerPenaltyYardsUnitFD
81NewmanIll Kick10ST
81ScandrickHolding5DefFD
82NewmanIll ContactDeclinedDef
82WarePF Facemask15DefFD
83Brent12 Men5Def
83BrentOffsideDeclinedDef
84McCrayPlayer OB5ST


Totals for : 7 Penalties, with 5 accepted for a total of 40 yards. The offense managed to not commit a single penalty (so they have that going for them - which is nice). After no penalties against the Defense or Special Teams against Jacksonville, both were busy on Sunday Night with the Defense being called for 5, and Special Teams 2.

Worst Offender: Terence Newman, who had not been called for a single penalty all season, was flagged twice (although the illegal kicking penalty was a new one) and Josh Brent managed 2 on the same play.

Here are your season totals - Keep in mind, my totals include declined and offsetting penalties. For football reasons, they matter way more than just accepted penalties.

This is through Week 8:

OFFENSE

PlayerTotalHoldPresnapIll BlockOther
Austin60222
Gurode53101
Free51400
Colombo50302
Witten40301
Barron33000
Romo30102
Davis21100
Bryant20002
Bennett10010
Holland10100
Kosier11000
Jones10100
Costa11000
Totals401017310


DEFENSE

PlayerTotalOffsideRoughPass InfOther
Jenkins60051
Ware43001
Brooking30120
Olshansky21100
Ratliff20110
Spencer22000
Brent21001
Scandrick20011
Sensabaugh10001
Bowen10001
Newman10001
Totals267397


The secondary is certainly becoming an issue in this department as well. The blown coverages and the poor tackling combined with flags each week make this a portion of the team that is under a constant spotlight - and rightfully so.


SPECIAL TEAMS

PlayerTotalOffsideRoughIll BlockOther
Church10010
Buehler10001
Scandrick11000
Hamlin10010
L Williams10100
McBriar10001
Ball10001
Ladocuer10001
McCray10001
Newman10001
Totals101126


We are all anxious to see if a coach who wants to hold this team more accountable can affect change in the final 8 games of the year.

Bob Sturm is host of BaD Radio on The Ticket 1310 AM Mondays through Fridays at 12-3 p.m. He also hosts The Ticket's Cowboys pregame show. Follow Bob on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bobanddan Bob offers his exclusive analysis after games on SportsDayDFW.com

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