You didn't hurt me. Just kinda annoying. Also not sure what you're trying to say here. Basically that Dak is better in man than zone, like that's a bad thing. And Dak was firing rockets everywhere against the Bucs last week.... so there.
And yes, there were 2 deep safetys against Dak too and he still had 177 yards in the first half. 2nd half he was far worse, but had only 3 possessions. The Chargers were really eating up time trying to keep our offense off the field otherwise Dak goes for 300 easily. Zone or man, whatever they play.... it's very unlikely you'll hold Dak to under 300 yards and 2 TDs unless you play to keep him off the field. But of course, I'm gonna wait for how you're gonna try to spin that.
1. Did I say you hurt me? I said so you are just going to insult me and than not respond? And now you go on responding?
2. Didn’t I say that Staley plays primarily HEAVY cover 2 zone? It has zero to do with Dak and teams primarily play Dak 1 on 1. Like what exactly are you responding to? I said Dak completely sucks against zone, which is why he posts mediocre numbers traditionally against them. If he didn’t have an actual RG that could run regularly against cover 2, it would be even worse, thus the point about our OL and RG carrying him. Teams play so much man against us, because of our RG and they are more than ck tent in allowing Dak to beat us with his arm, which is why we always blow against good teams and why we don’t win anything.
3. Then you go on and provide Tampa as an example, which demonstrate your have not clue what your even talking about as far as this argument goes. Tampa Bay was playing almost exclusively man and not only that bringing an extra rusher with a blitz for almost three quarters, exposing their injured secondary to little help. They didn’t even both shifting a safety to the side of Cooper. That means defenses don’t respect Dak’s arm in reality. And even CC was pointing it out, that teams basically continued to ‘blitz’ Dak despite the success. That’s because of our OL blocking and Zeke basically can sticky blitzed and defenses are forced to blitz and still get little pressure.
3. How were the Chargers trying to keep Dak off the field by of Herbert was throwing the ball downfield aggressively, not running it? He basically threw it three times in the second half? I already said the Cowboys were playing primarily cover 2. Again, what do you think you are responding to? Unlike Dak, Herbert had no running game and was still challenging the secondary downfield aggressively.
4. Day threw a pick on his second drive, meaning he turned the ball right back over. 48 “passing yards” of Dak were on his “dump off” to CeeDee Lamb to end the half. IF NOT FOR CEEDEE LAMB’S scramble at the end of the half, Dak BASICALLY THREW FOR 180 yards and didn’t challenge the Seattle Cover 2 at all. Your stats are bogus. They say exactly what I said, not what you said. And this is traditionally Dak that goes way back
Their only scores were drives wheee they fed the ball and Dak basically dumped the ball off snd shot routes. They ran it 15 times the whole first half. Dak was a BUS DRIVER the whole first half and couldn’t do anything on his arm.
Typical Dak.. paper Tiger built off this RG and OL forcing man looks against defenses, who completely goes into a shell against zones. We actually beat “good” teams when the team basically runs the ball and we allow the OL to impose its will. Pollard got all that outside yardage on the cover 2 precisely because of the cover 2. He averaged around 9 yards a carry.
No defense is going to play an elite QB the way they traditionally do with Dak if he was surrounded by the weapons of the Cowboys, including the OL. Dak isn’t even anywhere in Herbert’s league, let alone the best QBs in the league.
Dak against zone basically played like ANDY DALTON did with no offensive line last year.