Jaws Game of the Week - Indianapolis Colts at Dallas Cowboys (Week 11)
Ron Jaworski
NFLPLAYERS.COM
11/16/2006
I see several intriguing games in Week 11, but who I really like for my Game of the Week is the Indianapolis Colts going to play the Dallas Cowboys.
First of all, Peyton Manning is having another MVP season. After going through the Buffalo-Indy game last week, Buffalo blitzed one time the entire game, played a coverage scheme, held Indy to 17 points and did a good job. The plan was to keep the Colts in front of them and not let them get behind them. And I think Dallas has the ability to do the same thing this week.
The Cowboys have a 3-4 defense that can mix three and four man rushes, but Dallas will concentrate on coverage. Last week however, Peyton brought his game to another level because of this defensive approach and he did not force the ball into the coverage. He kept taking the check down, the tight end and running the football. So you now see another side of Peyton's game. The week prior we saw the movement in the pocket. Then against Buffalo, we saw his methodical ball control style in this offense. In the past that may have thrown him off a little but now he has the maturity to handle anything a defense throws at him.
Looking at the Cowboys' offensive perspective, I broke down the tape against Arizona last week and saw Tony Romo play absolutely fabulous. For a guy that has played as little as he has, his reads were 100 percent correct. And I can't always say that and very seldom do say a quarterback always throws to the right guy especially considering I don't know all the nuances of Dallas' reads, but Romo always threw to the single coverage receiver. So Romo does an outstanding job reading coverage and you can expect him to throw it to the right receiver against Indy.
Overall when I look at this game, I think of the New York Giants against the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIII, with Dallas being the Giants and Indy being the Bills. Once again Bill Parcells will shorten the game. He knows how good Indy's offense is and he won't give them 70 snaps, he'll limit them to the low 50s. If Parcells and the Cowboys can really get its way, they'll control the ball and leave the Colts offense with 40 some snaps. So you will see a lot of the running game with Julius Jones and Marion Barber. They've actually become a pretty good, one-two punch with Jones being more of the power back and Barber being more a scat back type of runner. Thus far they've evolved into a good combination and that should continue.
The Colts are undefeated and Dallas is a solid team, making this a tough choice, but I'm going to go with the Colts pulling out the win.
NFLPLAYERS.COM
11/16/2006
I see several intriguing games in Week 11, but who I really like for my Game of the Week is the Indianapolis Colts going to play the Dallas Cowboys.
First of all, Peyton Manning is having another MVP season. After going through the Buffalo-Indy game last week, Buffalo blitzed one time the entire game, played a coverage scheme, held Indy to 17 points and did a good job. The plan was to keep the Colts in front of them and not let them get behind them. And I think Dallas has the ability to do the same thing this week.
The Cowboys have a 3-4 defense that can mix three and four man rushes, but Dallas will concentrate on coverage. Last week however, Peyton brought his game to another level because of this defensive approach and he did not force the ball into the coverage. He kept taking the check down, the tight end and running the football. So you now see another side of Peyton's game. The week prior we saw the movement in the pocket. Then against Buffalo, we saw his methodical ball control style in this offense. In the past that may have thrown him off a little but now he has the maturity to handle anything a defense throws at him.
Looking at the Cowboys' offensive perspective, I broke down the tape against Arizona last week and saw Tony Romo play absolutely fabulous. For a guy that has played as little as he has, his reads were 100 percent correct. And I can't always say that and very seldom do say a quarterback always throws to the right guy especially considering I don't know all the nuances of Dallas' reads, but Romo always threw to the single coverage receiver. So Romo does an outstanding job reading coverage and you can expect him to throw it to the right receiver against Indy.
Overall when I look at this game, I think of the New York Giants against the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIII, with Dallas being the Giants and Indy being the Bills. Once again Bill Parcells will shorten the game. He knows how good Indy's offense is and he won't give them 70 snaps, he'll limit them to the low 50s. If Parcells and the Cowboys can really get its way, they'll control the ball and leave the Colts offense with 40 some snaps. So you will see a lot of the running game with Julius Jones and Marion Barber. They've actually become a pretty good, one-two punch with Jones being more of the power back and Barber being more a scat back type of runner. Thus far they've evolved into a good combination and that should continue.
The Colts are undefeated and Dallas is a solid team, making this a tough choice, but I'm going to go with the Colts pulling out the win.
posted by The Gryphon at 7:58 PM
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