Haven't people realized by now that his worst year (his 2nd), he had one of the worst receiving units in the NFL? An aging Jason Witten, a washed out Dez Bryant, decent Terrence Williams, Cole Beasley, Brice Butler, and Noah Brown. One of the most weaksauce receiving units I can think of. That list of names has no flash at all.
It shouldn't be any surprise why his sophomore campaign was a failure. The majority of the criticism he gets is for his 2nd year (or that 16 game streak from Atlanta 2017 game 9 through Tennessee 2018 game 8). After the Cooper trade, he starts putting up highlights and has his team back in good looking shape. I'm just really shocked Cowboys fans don't seem to recognize what clearly dragged us down in '17.....
Would anybody, even Dak critics deny that both Goff and Wentz have had much better Offensive Coordinators?
The fact that Dak has done as well as he has with a sub-par OC should be considered by anybody trying to evaluate him.
Dak has an above average completion percentage and his yards per completion show that it's
not because he is dink-and-dunk type QB.
I don't think any QB could have had great success under the constraints of the Cowboys 2017 offense. The OC was not very good, Witten played 100% of the snaps but his speed had taken a dive even from just the previous year. By far the biggest problem was the Dez fell off the map from an ability perspective. Defenses rarely doubled him and some defenses used their 2nd or 3rd CB to cover him. That put double-coverage on Beasley which is rare for a slot WR. Some defenses used their top CB on TWill or Brice Butler.
Fan obsess about Wow type players. Winning teams focus on players that win Super Bowls.
Wow: Barry Sanders
Win: Emmitt Smith
Wow: Brett Farve, Dan Marino
Win: Troy Aikman (His passing stats are minimal compared to Marino's).
If Aikman had been on bad teams, fans would have hated him because he didn't rack up big passing stats and often just threw the ball away instead of trying to make Wow plays that could easily end up as INTs (i.e. the Farve style).
Dak does not Wow fans with a Farve type arm or Mike Vick type of athletic ability. He does take big risks like Romo did which sometimes resulted in Romo losing 20 plus yards before ending up with a big completion or other type of heroics such as Romo throwing 5 INTs and still winning the game.