People said Aikman was not good enough after his 2nd season. People wanted Steve Walsh to replace Aikman during the 1990 season.
Then Erik Williams arrived. By the start of the '92 season, Erik Williams at RT allowed Nate to move to OG. EW's take no prisoners attitude make that OLine feared by all opponents. They could pound the defense with Emmitt and Aikman could function to perfection.
Once the OL started declining after the 3rd Super Bowl, Aikman started to struggle.
Jerry thought Aikman needed another WR and traded two 1sts for Joey Galloway. In reality they needed another top OLineman to allow Aikman to run his style of offense.
Later Romo came along and his style didn't require an elite OL.
Now they are back to running the nineties type offensive scheme that was dependent on execution and individual receivers winning their matchups.
Unfortunately, regardless of Martin/Tyron/Frederick being All Pro, they don't have an Erik Williams making Reggie White cry for his momma or Romo running around avoiding defenders for 6 seconds waiting for Dez to get open. The simple scheme is not good enough.
At least this year they shifted their WR focus to smart players that are well above average route runners. This should allow for a better scheme than they could run with Dez as the primary target.
A better scheme would make it easier for Dak; therefore, there is no excuse for not implementing a modern scheme other than the coaches that are stuck in their old scheme.
Let's see a modern scheme and if Dak fails I'll jump on the draft a QB bandwagon.
They also have to sort out the OL. The OL coach that was fired appears to have made Collins worse. They say Collins struggled the most with the new techniques and he has struggled with penalties in the games. Columbo/Houck can't undo that immediately.
For next season, they can swap Collins and C-Williams.
Playing OG allows Collins to use his power and his limited foot quickness won't force him to hold outside speed rushers.
C-Williams has elite foot quickness but needs more size/power. He's already stronger than Doug Free and they managed to function quite well with Free at RT once Bill Callahan came in and devised an OL scheme to protect Free.
If Frederick returns, then the sky is the limit if they get a legit NFL offensive coordinator.
Even if you were right about Dak, there would be no point drafting a QB with Garrett/Linehan running the offense.
Give Josh McDaniels 10M a year to replace Garrett but keep him out of the draft room and Dak will be a Super Bowl caliber QB.
I can't root for the Cowboys to lose games, but long term it would be better if they failed this season to the point of getting Garrett fired.