FRISCO, Texas _ The Cowboys' offensive struggles of 2017 carried over into the season opener Sunday in Charlotte, N.C.
Dating back to Week 10 of last season, Dallas' offense has now scored only 14 touchdowns in its last nine games. During that time, Dak Prescott is averaging only 186 passing yards per game.
How do they fix the offense?
Head coach Jason Garrett, who called plays for the Cowboys from 2007 to 2012, doesn't have any plans of getting more involved in play-calling or taking over the responsibility from offensive coordinator Scott Linehan.
"I have a tremendous amount of faith in Scott," Garrett said Monday. "We just have to do a better job collectively as a staff and as an offensive unit to help us move the football and score some points. That starts with basic execution play after play, not beating ourselves and then finding some ways to generate big plays."
Garrett said the offense is currently limited in the number of "givens." He explained those to be plays that they know are going to have some success, adding that the best offenses have 5 to 10 of them.
"We don't have enough of those right now," Garrett said. "We just have to do a better job trying to create those as a coaching staff, and then we have to execute once the ball is snapped. We'll keep working hard at doing that."
Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said Monday that it's unfair to put all of the blame on the play-calling.
"At the end of the day, we have a lot of confidence that we're going to get this right," Jones said on 105.3 The Fan's G-Bag Nation show (KRLD-FM). "It's unfair right now to point fingers at anything specific, whether it's play-calling, whether it's Dak, whether it's our receivers.
"I just think we've got to do a better overall job of executing and I think this thing will come together."
