Dak outplayed Goff

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Hard to blame Dak. There are certainly things he could have done better, like using his legs...but in that regard, they never called designed runs for him until the very end. Should have been in the game plan from the get go. He was a little inaccurate on some passes, but generally I would probably give him a low B.

Goff on the other hand had a great running game and no pressure and had a very very mediocre game. I think just about any NFL QB could have done what he did....and better.
 
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CF74 said:
It's all related. Yes Dak was ok with numbers but he layed an egg yesterday. Way too many off target passes. Many times he could have ran for a first but got sacked or threw a bad pass. He was part of the failure, a big part of it.
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There were several dropped passes as well
 

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Nightman said:
How many were the #1 overall pick being coached by an Offensive genius?

Just saying that game is over and it is time to give Dak the credit he deserves and has earned
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This doesn’t refute his point at all.

You guys trumpet this mantra all the time, “all he does is win and that’s the most important stat!”

You can’t have it both ways. Dak was fine last night. He was more effective than Goff. But pointing out your goalpost shift is accurate.
 
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khiladi said:
The difference between Dak and Goff is that teams don’t play single safety deep with man coverage on the outside.

They drop players to prevent the big play. On the other hand, teams DARE Dak to beat them with his arm.

He stat padded in prevent and this guy was basically taking the checkdown over the immediately and didn’t throw any sideline routes are try and get yardage. His clock management was trash at the end.
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The 44 yder to Gallup was not stat padding
 
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jwitten82 said:
Goff won...isnt that whst you Dak supporters always say because im almost positive that there were games we won and the other qb out played Dak
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It's always excuses with them, and then finding any little thing to make their QB look better. If Dak and Goff stats were reversed and the scores too, then we would be hearing things like "Dak is Clutch" and "Dak is a winner" again. Now we are hearing how Goff sucked, despite the feeling up into the 4th quarter that we were getting our buts whipped when it was 30 to 15 and the score should've been higher but our defense toughened up and made two TD into field goals. So it could've been 38 to 15 just as easily at that point. Dak had an almost comeback in the 4th quarter, but nobody ever gave romo credit for almost comebacks.
 
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Fla Cowpoke said:
Hard to blame Dak. There are certainly things he could have done better, like using his legs...but in that regard, they never called designed runs for him until the very end. Should have been in the game plan from the get go. He was a little inaccurate on some passes, but generally I would probably give him a low B.

Goff on the other hand had a great running game and no pressure and had a very very mediocre game. I think just about any NFL QB could have done what he did....and better.
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I would think that we'd go into every game planning to call a few option runs for Dak right from the get go. IMO he even throws better once he's got a couple of called runs under his belt. It seems to help his overall confidence.
 
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If he'd had that run game, his stats would be different. Neither QB was really good and both missed throws that should have been made and if the Rams D didn't have butter fingers, that Prescott stat line wouldn't be good.

Instead of comparing the QB's, which is ludicrous, look at the missed throws by Prescott and what could have been the results of just two passes, that one to Gallup when he threw well behind him and the high one to Cooper when he had his man beat. Let's not even consider the dropped picks by the Rams.

The difference between Goff and Prescott is that Goff's team can win with a mediocre stat line but the real stat that you should be considering is the one with QB rushes. Prescott should have run the ball at least 5 more times in that game but he's still trying to play pocket QB, which he never will be, instead of dual threat, which is what he is. He and whoever kept him in that pocket played right into their plans.
 
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JDSmith said:
I think it's harsh to say that Dak laid an egg yesterday, because he played about the way he plays. It's not as if he was terrible, he was Dak. He missed some throws, he failed to run when he had a chance, he also made some really nice throws in there. I'd say Dak played a pretty typical game for him, so he didn't IMO lay an egg. He just wasn't good enough when the running game didn't work and the defense couldn't stop the Rams all night.
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I've defended Dak all year along those same sentiments but when we needed a play to keep the chains moving, he threw behind the receivers as they were crossing the field, over and over again at critical junctures. This is the Playoffs, practice time is over, now we go home. He layed an egg bruh...
 
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Neither were great.
But I do recall Goff missing a couple of throws badly. He made some great ones too.
Dak made at least two really nice throws too. Made several bad ones too.

The team lost the game and Dak contibuted to that.
But the MAIN reason we lost was that they ran at will on us.

Stats are subtle things.
Once they went up 15 points with 7-8 minutes left, their goal was for us to use up the clock. They went soft, we ran the clock down to just over 2 minutes but scored after a 4th down penalty on a non catchable ball gave us 1st and goal. We got about 55-60 fairly easy passing yards on that drive by staying in bounds.

And then there’s the pick 6 interception that was dropped.
Point is, the final stats are outrageously misleading.
Could easily have been a 65-70 QB rating game while playing the same


But lets be clear, the defense got abused much of the game
They stunk
 
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Cowboys 10% on 3rd down. Rams were almost 50%. Yes. Dak was statistically better.

But it didn't matter. We couldn't get them off the field on 3rd down. And they threw us off the field on 3rd down like old trash.

It's the main reason we lost.
 
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