Bucky Brooks: "It's a myth that elite QBs single-handedly carry their teams to wins"

[Reality]

You don't understand. The sport of football is a team game, especially in the playoffs. Brady lost 30% of his 2021 SB winning team the following 2022 season. How did the Buccaneers fare? 8 - 9 record and they got wiped clean by the Cowboys at Tampa Bay in a game where Dak carried the Cowboys. Where was the 7 SB winning GOAT Brady? Why wasn't he able to carry his 2022 Buccaneers during the playoffs the way he did the previous season? It's because he didn't have the complete team around him that he had the previous year.

Game, Set & Match.

It's a team sport, but if your quarterback cannot elevate your team, it's a losing team sport, and that's what the Cowboys have had for 29 years of experiments at the position.

A great quarterback can elevate good players to be even better players. They do not need every position around them to be an All-Pro to win.

An average quarterback relies on justifications, excuses, blame and other "it's not me, it's someone else" reasons why they fail year after year.

Every team has it's weak players as there are no perfect teams, so blaming other players, many of which are new faces every few years, is nothing more than a desperate attempt to support a failed player who has been here through all of those players.

 

[zrinkill]

It's a team sport, but if your quarterback cannot elevate your team, it's a losing team sport, and that's what the Cowboys have had for 29 years of experiments at the position.

A great quarterback can elevate good players to be even better players. They do not need every position around them to be an All-Pro to win.

An average quarterback relies on justifications, excuses, blame and other "it's not me, it's someone else" reasons why they fail year after year.

Every team has it's weak players as there are no perfect teams, so blaming other players, many of which are new faces every few years, is nothing more than a desperate attempt to support a failed experiment.

Game, Set & Match

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

He did.

He also saw Prescott go like 5-11 in the first half with 55 yards passing and a couple interceptions before he finally led us on a TD drive right before the end of the half.

The QB was as much a problem as the defense that game.

If Dak had showed up that game he was gonna need 60 points to win.

Dak and the offense was bad. All a mess all around.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

It's a team sport, but if your quarterback cannot elevate your team, it's a losing team sport, and that's what the Cowboys have had for 29 years of experiments at the position.

A great quarterback can elevate good players to be even better players. They do not need every position around them to be an All-Pro to win.

An average quarterback relies on justifications, excuses, blame and other "it's not me, it's someone else" reasons why they fail year after year.

Every team has it's weak players as there are no perfect teams, so blaming other players, many of which are new faces every few years, is nothing more than a desperate attempt to support a failed player who has been here through all of those players.

Dak shouldn’t be excused for his play but we are fooling ourselves actively avoiding the trenches and trying to win.

 

[Sydla]

Yeah cause the defense had his back and held GB right.

Over the course of the game, nope.

But people seem to forget that after GB got up 7 to start, Dak and the offense failed and punted. The defense actually stopped them and got the ball right back but then Dak threw that pick giving GB great field position around our 20 and the rest was history. Even then, 14-0 with basically 3 quarters left at home isn't insurmountable. But the offense came out the next drive, Dak wasn't sharp, he took a sack and the rest was history. You can blame the defense all you want, they deserved it, but the "star" QB also crapped the bed right alongside them.

 

[MountaineerCowboy]

Well if it’s Cooper Rush then yeah I agree. Depends what you replace him with.

It’s funny though Dak took over a 4 win team and made them a playoff team.

“It’s a team game” - Dak fans

“It’s funny though Dak took over a 4 win team and made them a playoff team.” - Also Dak fans.

It’s not fun when they make it so easy.

 

[Sydla]

If Dak had showed up that game he was gonna need 60 points to win.

Dak and the offense was bad. All a mess all around.

Maybe so.

That doesn't change the fact Dak didn't play well.

 

[zrinkill]

we are fooling ourselves actively avoiding the trenches and trying to win.

We have taken 4 trench guys with the first round in 2003 and the all first 3 rounds this year.

 

[Chasing6]

It's a team sport, but if your quarterback cannot elevate your team, it's a losing team sport, and that's what the Cowboys have had for 29 years of experiments at the position.

A great quarterback can elevate good players to be even better players. They do not need every position around them to be an All-Pro to win.

An average quarterback relies on justifications, excuses, blame and other "it's not me, it's someone else" reasons why they fail year after year.

Every team has it's weak players as there are no perfect teams, so blaming other players, many of which are new faces every few years, is nothing more than a desperate attempt to support a failed player who has been here through all of those players.

Pretty sure Dak makes CD and Ferguson better.

 

[Sydla]

Hey Daksters, make sure if we win the SB while Dak is QB, you make sure to call it a team win and not just heap praise on Dak for getting the team over the hump.

 

[Reality]

Dak shouldn’t be excused for his play but we are fooling ourselves actively avoiding the trenches and trying to win.

If the quarterback holds the ball too long because they can't make more than 2 quick reads, that's not on the offensive line, that's on the quarterback.

Brady made his offensive lines look great because he got the ball out fast.

Mahomes makes his offensive line look great because he's mobile.

The Cowboys expect their line to block several seconds while waiting for the receivers to run sandlot football routes when their initial routes were missed.

 

[Sydla]

Pretty sure Dak makes CD and Ferguson better.

Or................. CD makes Dak look better

 

[zrinkill]

Pretty sure Dak makes CD and Ferguson better.

I think they make him look better.

 

[Chasing6]

Hey Daksters, make sure if we win the SB while Dak is QB, you make sure to call it a team win and not just heap praise on Dak for getting the team over the hump.

I will just like all the Super Bowls in the 90's, but you go ahead and keep believing it was all Troy.

 

[Reality]

Pretty sure Dak makes CD and Ferguson better.

Actually, I think those players make him look better.

 

[Chasing6]

If the quarterback holds the ball too long because they can't make more than 2 quick reads, that's not on the offensive line, that's on the quarterback.

Brady made his offensive lines look great because he got the ball out fast.

Mahomes makes his offensive line look great because he's mobile.

The Cowboys expect their line to block several seconds while waiting for the receivers to run sandlot football routes when their initial routes were missed.

It could also be on the receivers lack of ability to get open. Maybe their is a reason we threw the ball to CD damn near 200 times.

 

[Reality]

It could also be on the receivers lack of ability to get open.

I would consider than a valid reason if it had been the same receivers for the last 8 years, but it hasn't.

Receivers don't get 5-10 yard buffers very often in the post-season, so they rely on quarterbacks who can thread the needle without turning it over to compensate.

 

[Reality]

It could also be on the receivers lack of ability to get open. Maybe their is a reason we threw the ball to CD damn near 200 times.

Because he's the only wide receiver on the team that can make a quarterback look better than they are.

The rest of the receivers need the quarterback to be good enough to make throws that can elevate their games.

 

[Chasing6]

To say that quarterbacks with 600-plus regular-season pass attempts always lose in the playoffs is not to say it is entirely their fault. Yet one could rightfully deduce that when a team asks its quarterback to throw 600 or more times, it's likely in an effort to cover up some warts. And invariably, if the team is even good enough to make it to January, when there's no place to hide, those warts bubble back to the surface. That quarterback is also likely to be drained when the team plays games 18,19 and 20, on the schedule.

 

[Chasing6]

Because he's the only wide receiver on the team that can make a quarterback look better than they are.

The rest of the receivers need the quarterback to be good enough to make throws that can elevate their games.

Your delusional at best.