Dallas Cowboys vs. Detroit Lions: Week 11 Post-Game Recap, Observations

November 22, 2010   ·   Jonathan Bales   ·   Jump to comments

These post-game reviews are always so much more fun after the ‘Boys win.  Although they came out of the gate slowly today, Dallas was able to secure enough big plays in the second half to allow fans to breathe easy late in the fourth quarter.  Here are some points of interest I wrote during the contest:
It may be getting old, but I don’t understand why Marion Barber is still starting.  Jason Garrett dismissed talk of Barber breaking the team’s new dress code last week, but his absence from the starting lineup then and presence now leads me to believe the former was punishment and not a shakeup of the lineup. I counted three or four times when the Cowboys ran weak side out of "Double Tight I" (below).  As I’ve mentioned before, they tend to do this after motioning Jason Witten across the formation (they start in "Double Tight Left/Right I").  Witten’s motion is probably a decoy because they run to the spot he just vacated. &n...

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