Who's calling the plays?

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by Redskins_P

Gibbs cleared that up yesterday on his radio show. No, Don Breaux does not call the plays. Joe does. All Don Breaux does is consult Gibbs, and Gibbs makes the call.

Well, that's what I thought. Breaux is sorta like his lieutenant, or right hand man. Makes sense.

We, and many others throw around the "Genius" label quite a bit, and Gibbs certainly comes close, but man, just like Madden said, a naked bootleg right before halftime, with Dallas keyed in on Portis would have been THE perfect call. With as much as the Cowboys were blitzing, I also tend to wonder why he didn't call more screen passes.

But I will say this: There were several drives where Brunell seemed to get hot, and the playcalling really had the Dallas defense on their heels. If you remember back to last season, in the first Cowboy game in Dallas, with Spurrier calling the plays, the Cowboys had an answer for just about everything he threw at them -- and we had NO passing offense. And like Spurrier or hate him, he is generally regarded as an effective playcaller.

On Monday night though, you could definitely see that Gibbs, while far from coaching a perfect game, hasn't lost much over the years when it comes to playcalling even when we were behind, and running the ball wasn't really expected.