Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Penalties - Game 11 - New Orleans

As we do our weekly tally on penalties, we continue to see a massive downturn in penalty issues on this team. They will never completely disappear, but they are drying up. Every game of the Jason Garrett era, the Cowboys have had either fewer flags or fewer yards or both than their opponents. That must count for something:

Game 11 vs New Orleans:
WkQPlayerPenaltyYardsUnitFD
111BallHoldingDeclinedDef
111WareOffside4Def
113GurodeFalse Start5Off
113LeeFalse Start5ST
114BryantIll Shift5Off
114McBriarIll KickDeclinedST


Totals: 6 penalties, with 4 accepted for 19 yards. The offense had 2 penalties, the defense 2, and special teams had 2 as well, so it was spread out fairly. 19 yards in a game? For the Cowboys? There was nothing wrong in this department.

Worst Offender: Nobody wins this category this week.

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 11:

OFFENSE

PlayerTotalHoldPresnapIll BlockOther
Colombo81502
Free71600
Austin60222
Gurode63201
Witten50302
Barron33000
Romo30102
Davis32100
Bryant30102
Kosier22000
Kitna20200
Bennett10010
Holland10100
Jones10100
Costa11000
Totals521325311


What a great battle among the offensive line to see who can win the season title for "most penalized". Gurode is gaining on the top with Colombo and Free.

DEFENSE

PlayerTotalOffsideRoughPass InfOther
Jenkins60051
Ware65001
Brooking30120
Olshansky21100
Ratliff20110
Spencer22000
Brent21001
Scandrick20011
Ball20002
Sensabaugh10001
Bowen10001
Newman10001
McCann10010
Totals3193109


DeMarcus Ware still tries to anticipate snap counts and still manages to be called routinely for offsides.

SPECIAL TEAMS

PlayerTotalOffsideRoughIll BlockOther
McBriar20002
Church10010
Buehler10001
Scandrick11000
Hamlin10010
L Williams10100
Ball10001
Ladocuer10001
McCray10001
Newman10001
Lee10001
Totals121128


I have watched a lot of football and cannot say I have ever seen a Punter called for an "illegal kick" before. First time for everything.

Based on many requests, I have constructed yet another chart below that will help you put some of these numbers into proper context. Below is the week by week penalties that were accepted for the Cowboys and their opponents in each game. This way, you can see how Wade did vs Garrett or how the Cowboys did against their opponents in a scenario that would account for different tones by different officiating crews throughout the season. Enjoy:


WeekDal PenYardsOpp PenYards
Wk 1-Was1281542
Wk 2-Chi650210
Wk 3-Hou849532
Wk 4-Ten12133440
Wk 5- Min1191545
Wk 6- NYG542646
Wk 7- Jac320636
Wk 8- GB540220
Wk 9- NYG560869
Wk 10- Det6391076
Wk 11- NO419430
Totals7762457446

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