Monday, October 04, 2010

Penalties

http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/10/bob-sturm-cowboys-penalty-anal.html

I have been wanting to track a few more statistics that are not readily available for Cowboys fans during this bye week, and today I thought we could look at penalties.

I have never cared for the way the boxscore shows penalties. They will not include declined or offsetting penalties which does not properly summarize what happened in a given scenario. Already this season, we have seen several situations where a QB has been given a "Free Play" because of an offside, and changes his idea on a given play - deciding to "take a shot" because there are no bad results on a free play.

So, declined penalties do matter. They put your team in jeopardy and regardless of whether or not they count in the final stats, they do affect the game and you can bet your bottom dollar that coaches are still counting them.

So below, I tabulate the first 3 games, and from here on out I will make sure we update this total on a weekly basis after each game.

Week 1 - At Washington:

WkQPlayerPenaltyYardsUnitFD
11RatliffRough Passer15DefFD
12BryantPass Inf10Off
12GurodeHoldingDeclinedOff
12SpencerOffsideDeclinedDef
12RomoDelay of Game5Off
12RatliffPass Inf1DefFD
12BarronHolding10Off
13WareOffsideDeclinedDef
13ScandrickOffside5ST
13SensabaughIll Contact4DefFD
14BennettIll Block10Off
14BarronHolding10Off
14HollandFalse Start5Off
14AustinFalse Start5Off
14BarronHolding0Off

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Totals: 15 called, 12 accepted for 80 yards. 9 Penalties on the Offense - 5 on the Defense - 1 Special Teams.
Worst Offender: Alex Barron, 3 Holding Penalties for 20 yards (the final holding penalty was not walked off so even though it ended the game, it counted for 0 yards).


Week 2 vs Chicago:

WkQPlayerPenaltyYardsUnitFD
21BrookingRoughness OffsetDef
21KosierHolding10Off
22ColomboFalse Start5Off
23DavisFalse Start5Off
23OlshanskyRough Passer15DefFD
24ColomboFalse Start5Off
24HamlinIll Block10ST

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Totals: 7 called, 6 accepted for 50 yards. 4 Penalties on the Offense, 2 on the Defense, and 1 on Special Teams.
Worst Offender: Marc Colombo had 2 false starts.

Week 3 at Houston:

WkQPlayerPenaltyYardsUnitFD
31WittenFalse Start5Off
31FreeIll FormationDeclinedOff
31WittenPass InfDeclinedOff
31SpencerOffsideDeclinedDef
32AustinIll Block10Off
32BryantIll Touch5Off
32RomoGrounding10Off
33BrookingPass Inf4DefFD
33JenkinsIll Contact5DefFD
33OlshanskyOffside5Def
34BrookingPass InfOffsetDef
34L WilliamsRoughingOffsetST
34LadoceurHoldingOffsetST
34WareOffside5Def

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Totals for Houston: 14 called, 8 accepted. 6 Penalties for Offense, 6 for Defense, 2 for Special Teams.
Worst Offender: Jason Witten and Keith Brooking both had 2 penalties.

36 Penalties in 3 weeks is way too many and the NFL leader on a per-game basis. I assume this is a real point of emphasis this week in practice as at least 8 of these penalties are all of the "pre snap" variety.

Good News? No Defensive Pass Interference calls on your defensive backs, and no holding penalties on your offensive line since Week 1 against Washington. To keep Tony Romo from being sacked against Chicago and Houston without committing a single holding penalty is quite note-worthy to me.

Below, we have eye-catching charts to show the "season-to-date" nature of the penalties on the Cowboys.

This is through Week 3:

OFFENSE

PlayerTotalHoldPresnapIll BlockOther
Barron33000
Bryant20002
Witten20101
Romo20101
Austin20110
Colombo20200
Bennett10010
Holland10100
Kosier11000
Gurode11000
Davis10100
Free10100
Totals195824

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DEFENSE

PlayerTotalOffsideRoughPass InfOther
Brooking30120
Olshansky21100
Ratliff20110
Spencer22000
Ware22000
Sensabaugh10001
Jenkins10001
Totals135332

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SPECIAL TEAMS

PlayerTotalOffsideRoughIll BlockOther
Scandrick11000
Hamlin10010
L Williams10100
Ladocuer10001
Totals41111

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