News: Yet another Dak thread. So sue me I am bored

SackMaster

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The following quote:

It’s safe to say Dak Prescott could lead the Dallas Cowboys to a Super Bowl victory and it still wouldn’t change his critics’ minds. They’d come up with excuses why he was actually bad. Why he was a product of the system. Why he’s not worth paying like a franchise QB.

First they said his win percentage didn’t matter because he wasn’t piling up big yardage and TD totals. Then when he started putting up elite yardage and TDs, they said these were empty stats in garbage time. Then when his elite numbers were qualified through QBR and EPA, they said stats that only mathematicians understood weren’t real stats.Then when these advanced stats were explained, they said they were only possible because Dak had an All-Star supporting cast.

Then when presented the running game’s poor EPA per play (compared to passing), the receiving corps high drop rate, and the coaching staff’s poor early down play-calling, “they” said the running issues were because opponents loaded the box, drops were from inaccurate balls, and play-calling was because the Cowboys abandoned the run too early.

Then when shown teams were NOT stacking the box, that Dak was one of the most accurate passers, and that Dallas stuck with the run far longer than the average NFL team, they said winning was all that matters. The same thing they discredited at the start. Rinse. Repeat.
Is so true.

JMHO
 

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The same guy providing the statistics used to provide statistics trying to convince everyone that Tony Romo was the second coming, worked out really well.
I Don' think that's the point. I Think the point is Romo wasn't nearly as bad as some said he was. Same goes for Dak. You have to put everything into context.
 

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Sports should be like commission based sales, you get paid based on your production
Why not apply that to every job?

Of course, part of the problem is in defining production. Most people agree that individual statistics alone don't tell the whole story because sometimes people help or hurt the overall production of the unit/team/company in ways that aren't reflected in individual statistics. Likewise, most people agree that unit/team/company statistics don't tell the whole story because the individual may be doing a good or bad job that isn't reflected in the production of the unit/team/company as a whole.
 

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I watch a lot of sports and I live chat on reddit while watching games & every teams own fans are their worst ‘enemies’/critics - it’s not just a Cowboys fan base thing.
No its not. I think with Dak it is though. I think if anyone else had a quarterback of this caliber and if they had gotten him in the 4th he would get far more love than he gets here. Like even for Goff's flaws....that fanbase isn't nearly as divided on him as we are on Dak.
 

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No its not. I think with Dak it is though. I think if anyone else had a quarterback of this caliber and if they had gotten him in the 4th he would get far more love than he gets here. Like even for Goff's flaws....that fanbase isn't nearly as divided on him as we are on Dak.
lol I lived in LA for a few years and I’ve been to more Rams games than I have Cowboys games (unfortunately). I’ve seen Rams fans fist fight over Goff - I could flood the board with the same crap we fight about on here, from any team. Obviously our fan base is much larger, but it’s no different for any other team - for instance, I follow whatever team that Lebron James is playing for. If he has an ‘off night’ which he occasionally does, its insane how quickly the fans turn on him and he’s Lebron f’ing James.
 
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