Rate Dak’s performance

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CATCH17 said:
It’s seldom ever true?

Rodgers is crying about his supporting cast.

Russell Wilson is not happy with his supporting cast.

Watson crushed his teams cap and wants out.


It’s the opposite.. Paying the QB a ton of money eventually crushes your roster.

Dallas has 1 thing going for them though.. They can draft well and they will need that more than ever.
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If the team wants to sign folks, they nearly always can. What's new about Rodgers' crying? He's always doing that. Wilson is not happy with his supporting cast? Metcalf and Lockett are two very good receivers, Locket got a $17+ million dollar a year contract in 2018. Metcalf is still under his rookie contract that only costs Seattle $1.25 million a year, how is that affecting their signing good receivers? It's not, Wilson feasted off of his no. 1 ranked defense for years, now he's got to carry the load on the offense and he doesn't like it one bit.

Watson? He wants out because he is in deep doo doo with his alleged sexual misconduct, and the Texans let Hopkins go because, as indicated in an article "multiple reports suggest that Bill O'Brien let Hopkins leave because the due had some friction in their relationship. Furthermore, ESPN suggests O'Brien did not like that DeAndre Hopkins did not train with the team every day."

The cap is convoluted and complex, a team can make it "sit up and bark" if they want, a la the Patriots, it's not as much of a team killer as most think.

How many times do we hear of a team that is either massively over or nearly over the cap, yet somehow they manage to pay 53 players, and sign rookies and free agents? Because there's plenty of money available for most teams. Sure some do get in "salary cap hell", but it's not due to the cap itself, it's due to teams not handling contracts correctly.

There was an article I found a few months ago that supported my position, I couldn't find it again, but it clearly laid out that the cap being a "team killer" is largely a myth. I did find this New York Times article that sort of explains it, and I quote in part:

"The N.F.L.’s salary cap was supposed to have torn the Chiefs’ roster apart after their Super Bowl victory last season; Mahomes’s performance would command a contract that by itself had the potential to force the team into receivership. Similarly, the Buccaneers’ star-studded lineup of Brady, Rob Gronkowski, Ndamukong Suh, Antonio Brown and Jason Pierre-Paul — each a market-setter at his position at some point in his career — should be so prohibitively expensive as to force the team to fill the lower half of its roster with temps and interns.

The fact that the Chiefs and the Buccaneers kept their rosters intact appears to support the popular theory that the salary cap is a myth, a fiction used by franchises as an excuse to cut unwanted veterans, pinch pennies and fall short of expectations."
 
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I would give Dak a 6, he did enough to get the win but overall didn't play especially well in my opinion.

Hoping the offense can figure some things out in the next 10 days and get back on track. Too much talent to have as many 3 and outs as they did last night.
 
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Dak fan here. Last night he gets a 6 out of 10 for me.

He did enough to win. The interception was a bad throw, but his other big misses looked more like the result of miscommunication and crowd noise. He also made a lot of excellent throws that the selective memory of some will forget.

At this point I am more concerned with the offensive line than Dak. The pass protection has been acceptable for the most part but where are the running lanes?
 

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Well he can’t or won’t run anymore for whatever reason. That aspect of his game is officially gone. He is now strictly a pocket passer with perhaps above average mobility shifting around in the pocket as needed. Dak was never cut out to be a “great pocket passer“ although he is getting better at making reads, making reads quicker and threading the needle on occasion as needed.

He’s a top tier NFL QB now but not elite. He never will be. He just doesn’t have that kinda game. He’s the guy that will freak you out and make a couple of incredible throws reminisce of the Romo days and will occasionally have an incredible game but then he ultimately will fall back to mediocre for several weeks in a row.

For this game, I give him a 5.5. Cowboys will be all right long-term as they get some of their players back. Assuming they get them back and can get in sync again. Dak needs a solid team around him to take it all the way. He had that to start the season before the injuries. And I believe before the season ends we will have it again. Cowboys need to focus on peaking at the right time.
 
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LACowboysFan1 said:
If the team wants to sign folks, they nearly always can. What's new about Rodgers' crying? He's always doing that. Wilson is not happy with his supporting cast? Metcalf and Lockett are two very good receivers, Locket got a $17+ million dollar a year contract in 2018. Metcalf is still under his rookie contract that only costs Seattle $1.25 million a year, how is that affecting their signing good receivers? It's not, Wilson feasted off of his no. 1 ranked defense for years, now he's got to carry the load on the offense and he doesn't like it one bit.

Watson? He wants out because he is in deep doo doo with his alleged sexual misconduct, and the Texans let Hopkins go because, as indicated in an article "multiple reports suggest that Bill O'Brien let Hopkins leave because the due had some friction in their relationship. Furthermore, ESPN suggests O'Brien did not like that DeAndre Hopkins did not train with the team every day."

The cap is convoluted and complex, a team can make it "sit up and bark" if they want, a la the Patriots, it's not as much of a team killer as most think.

How many times do we hear of a team that is either massively over or nearly over the cap, yet somehow they manage to pay 53 players, and sign rookies and free agents? Because there's plenty of money available for most teams. Sure some do get in "salary cap hell", but it's not due to the cap itself, it's due to teams not handling contracts correctly.

There was an article I found a few months ago that supported my position, I couldn't find it again, but it clearly laid out that the cap being a "team killer" is largely a myth. I did find this New York Times article that sort of explains it, and I quote in part:

"The N.F.L.’s salary cap was supposed to have torn the Chiefs’ roster apart after their Super Bowl victory last season; Mahomes’s performance would command a contract that by itself had the potential to force the team into receivership. Similarly, the Buccaneers’ star-studded lineup of Brady, Rob Gronkowski, Ndamukong Suh, Antonio Brown and Jason Pierre-Paul — each a market-setter at his position at some point in his career — should be so prohibitively expensive as to force the team to fill the lower half of its roster with temps and interns.

The fact that the Chiefs and the Buccaneers kept their rosters intact appears to support the popular theory that the salary cap is a myth, a fiction used by franchises as an excuse to cut unwanted veterans, pinch pennies and fall short of expectations."
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Mahomes contract was extended and he still had 2 years left on his rookie deal before the new contract kicked in.
 
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Hadenough said:
Choking is what happens when you try and do too much and not play within yourself. Every human being chokes it's just that guys like Brady and Mahomes it takes a lot more to make them choke than a guy like Dak.
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Lol. This is so ridiculous.
 
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DoctorChicken said:
5 most the time.

There were a couple series where he looked great, and a couple where I was disappointed.
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Some holier than thought people say we polarize. But really dak does with his play. He goes a series with absolute monster passes...then throws it in the dirt a couple series.
He really ranks from a 3 to an 8, seemingly on a dime.
 
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khiladi said:
This is Dak’s ceiling.. you’ve basically seen peak Dak.

I mean he was awful against the blitz today too, which pretty much demonstrates the point that calling him the highest rated QB against the blitz, when the OL has been stuffing it for years, is not a gage of him under real pressure.
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Guess who won
 
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