CalPolyTechnique
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I am apologizing to Pappy, Willie, Rison, Catch, Atlanta, Mountaineer, Khalidi, and the rest of the Dak haters. Dak had the ball at midfield at the two minute warning 1st down, three timeouts. A top 12 quarterback wins that game. San Francisco was also down 3 of their top defensive players. Shoot, Kirk Cousins wins that game.
That is a damning recap of the opportunity Dak and the offense had.
I'm not much for the oversimplified blame game of assigning a loss to one person, but a top tier QB gets it done or at least puts the team in a much better position to win.
If you look at Dak's season on a stat sheet, he had a great year. Yet, far too often this offense looked stale and inept when it mattered most. The peaks and valleys with Dak are pretty extreme. The interception he threw yesterday was straight amateur hour. Then another attempt at hero ball throwing it deep into double coverage, smh.
I also think there's a lot of blame to lay at Kellen Moore's feet. The running game, or lack thereof, was alarming. Our run scheme seems to be figured out. Too many times our RBs are being met in the backfield by defenders. We also don't know how to utilize our personnel; Zeke should never ever be used on a sweep (pre- or post-injury); Pollard was severely underutilized.