People forget Dallas had an attacking offense for the early Garrett years. This went away to A. Protect the defense and B. Protect Romo. The defense no longer needs protection and the offense should not be trying to win 16 1-possession ballgames as a grand strategy to protect Dak.
I thought Tony had his best seasons, (and smarter games) when we could combine a throughout, very strong run game added to his gunslinger pass attack.
I think that Jedi mentality was more about Romo than Garrett, Tony was a difference kind of QB, a different kind of mind set mentality than Dak.
He was more gungho gunslinger who took chances for better ..or for worse.
The ball swung everywhere and downfield and force defense to defend a wide range but the ball also too often went the other direction in enemy hands and even in some instances being the cause of losing some games too.
I don't think Dak was as dink and dunk his rookie year in 2016, he was very careful, very smart with the ball while he picked his spots for the big play downfield.
and at that time Dez was still making his share of big plays, even Twill had more spots and less disappearances, Butler was supposedly our deep threat. and that allowed spacing
for Beasley to do his wonderful work underneath while Witten still provided security blanket target.
Once teams had more time to figure out what Dak preferred to do best, and made plans to take that away, there wasn't an adjustment - some was on him, a lot had to do with that OC at the time in Linehan, and some of our weapons became more exposed and teams could take them out of the picture (ala Dez, Twill) and we had nothing else as pass weaponry to support Prescott, who has his own issues in his passing skills, and having Linehan still around didn't help matters.