khiladi
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Dak is a PAPER tiger, period. If he didn’t see 8-in-the-box all the time, who knows how bad it would be.
Again, the stats that are used especially in this era, with all these armchair Twitter analysts that never played a sport, are completely over-hyped. Both Marino and Elway were career upper 50% completion percentage, while Aikman was 62%. We’ve seen rules and rules progressively get laxer to intentionally boost offensive rating for viewership and in the process, they’ve almost destroyed the sport or hide mediocrity in these numbers.
Completion percentage completely obfuscates the reality of Dak. It isn’t about what numbers Dak puts on the field for his critics, it’s actually what he LEAVES OFF THE FIELD.
https://sportsinfosolutionsblog.com...-amari-cooper-face-challenge-with-colts-zone/
The “eye-test” is true, if one wants to actually dig deeper into the numbers. Dak can obviously throw the ball as a one-read QB, but he’s completely incompetent against zones and where he needs to anticipate and go through progressions. This is where the “Jekyll-Hyde” analogy comes from. In reality, it’s not JH, it’s Dak being Dak. Some QBs, you need to completely tailor an offense around abd baby-sit. That’s pretty much the majority of QBs in the game on an NFL level.
These stats show that Dak very rarely takes risks when he needs to go through his reads or find WRs in soft zones, particularly down the field. He just plays it safe, which boosts completion percentage but nothing else, meaning empty yardage. This is also evident this year as well as last, in his red-zone production and outside of garbage time, when scores are within 7 in the fourth quarter, meaning a TD. Dak’s accuracy goes way up, playing from WAY behind and he’s just slinging it on his first read and taking the underneath. His decision-making which is completely slow, coupled with his slow release, becomes accelerated. But when defenses go back to playing tighter, after slacking, Dak is going back to 4.6 YP catch, 61%, no more “deep ball” Dak with 1 pass over 20 yards, 0 TDs and 1 INT. And the real kicker is his 1 down percentage, which drops to a whopping 27.8%, meaning he can’t even sustain drives.
Oh yeah, he’s also pretty garbage when he’s playing on grass as well, meaning his numbers often projected as him being the ‘best deep thrower’ in football are often a product of the type of WRs he had running on turf. We see Gallup’s route patterns in particular. Dak on the other hand couldn’t get it done at all with Dez as the primary, because Dez couldn’t beat many WRs flat out in a foot race. And Dez ran a LOT of go-routes. But him and TWilliams were 1 and 3 respectively in go-routes ran and caught in 2014, when Tony Romo actually ran the offense. Now with the speed on the outside, the rushing attack of Zeke, it’s no surprise Romo’s comments during last Sunday’s game regarding the run, setting it up for what should be easy killing on the outside. I mean Romo was probably licking his chops.
https://www.nfl.com/players/dak-prescott/stats/situational
And just because you have an great WR in a guy like Green or CJ, doesn’t mean you are going to win. Advantages in the run game are what create meaningful opportunities for outstanding WRs to excel. Otherwise, good defenses have no problems shifting safety help over the top, for example, using a team effort to completely eliminate a particular thread. The reality is, if we were going by stats, Dalton set plenty of Bengals records that Dak couldn’t fathom on that Bengals team. Their rushing attack was averaging less than 4 YPC and they had a bunch of no names running the ball when Dalton was pushing the 6th ranked scoring attack.
If anything, Dalton brings excitement because he has a legitimate RG and beast who is also one of the great pass blocking backs. And our red-zone percentage is probably going to be the key difference and a point to look for next game to see if Dalton is really worth it.
Again, the stats that are used especially in this era, with all these armchair Twitter analysts that never played a sport, are completely over-hyped. Both Marino and Elway were career upper 50% completion percentage, while Aikman was 62%. We’ve seen rules and rules progressively get laxer to intentionally boost offensive rating for viewership and in the process, they’ve almost destroyed the sport or hide mediocrity in these numbers.
Completion percentage completely obfuscates the reality of Dak. It isn’t about what numbers Dak puts on the field for his critics, it’s actually what he LEAVES OFF THE FIELD.
https://sportsinfosolutionsblog.com...-amari-cooper-face-challenge-with-colts-zone/
The “eye-test” is true, if one wants to actually dig deeper into the numbers. Dak can obviously throw the ball as a one-read QB, but he’s completely incompetent against zones and where he needs to anticipate and go through progressions. This is where the “Jekyll-Hyde” analogy comes from. In reality, it’s not JH, it’s Dak being Dak. Some QBs, you need to completely tailor an offense around abd baby-sit. That’s pretty much the majority of QBs in the game on an NFL level.
These stats show that Dak very rarely takes risks when he needs to go through his reads or find WRs in soft zones, particularly down the field. He just plays it safe, which boosts completion percentage but nothing else, meaning empty yardage. This is also evident this year as well as last, in his red-zone production and outside of garbage time, when scores are within 7 in the fourth quarter, meaning a TD. Dak’s accuracy goes way up, playing from WAY behind and he’s just slinging it on his first read and taking the underneath. His decision-making which is completely slow, coupled with his slow release, becomes accelerated. But when defenses go back to playing tighter, after slacking, Dak is going back to 4.6 YP catch, 61%, no more “deep ball” Dak with 1 pass over 20 yards, 0 TDs and 1 INT. And the real kicker is his 1 down percentage, which drops to a whopping 27.8%, meaning he can’t even sustain drives.
Oh yeah, he’s also pretty garbage when he’s playing on grass as well, meaning his numbers often projected as him being the ‘best deep thrower’ in football are often a product of the type of WRs he had running on turf. We see Gallup’s route patterns in particular. Dak on the other hand couldn’t get it done at all with Dez as the primary, because Dez couldn’t beat many WRs flat out in a foot race. And Dez ran a LOT of go-routes. But him and TWilliams were 1 and 3 respectively in go-routes ran and caught in 2014, when Tony Romo actually ran the offense. Now with the speed on the outside, the rushing attack of Zeke, it’s no surprise Romo’s comments during last Sunday’s game regarding the run, setting it up for what should be easy killing on the outside. I mean Romo was probably licking his chops.
https://www.nfl.com/players/dak-prescott/stats/situational
And just because you have an great WR in a guy like Green or CJ, doesn’t mean you are going to win. Advantages in the run game are what create meaningful opportunities for outstanding WRs to excel. Otherwise, good defenses have no problems shifting safety help over the top, for example, using a team effort to completely eliminate a particular thread. The reality is, if we were going by stats, Dalton set plenty of Bengals records that Dak couldn’t fathom on that Bengals team. Their rushing attack was averaging less than 4 YPC and they had a bunch of no names running the ball when Dalton was pushing the 6th ranked scoring attack.
If anything, Dalton brings excitement because he has a legitimate RG and beast who is also one of the great pass blocking backs. And our red-zone percentage is probably going to be the key difference and a point to look for next game to see if Dalton is really worth it.
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