Let's remember how history tends at times to repeat itself. As I recall, the first of 5 super bowl championships by Staubach was won in 1972 with a measly 119 passing yards against dolphins. Yet again proving its not so much the big plus that you make, rather the mistakes you avoid making that often brings wins. And for the record, there are numerous other who've won big games and championships with such statistics. Granted the run game coupled with stretched clock management isn't as exciting as I'd like, if your looking for championships, we really need to focus on keeping mistakes at a minimum prior to focusing on the deep ball plays. Still don't believe we've seen the best of cooper and improvement comes with time and trust in his receivers and blockers, dak has been there and we know what we have under duress with him. Looking forward to see if rush can polish his play making abilities a tad more to incorporate a more balanced attack going forward myself.
what was average passing yards per game back then compared to today? 1972 or generally 70s, was less passing, more running and defensive rules were different. CBs could actually maul WRs and it was legal. now, touching them past 5 yards is considered a penalty. did anyone have a 400 passing yards back then? how many? it was considered a great great feat. today it happens too regularly. still a great feat, but not unheard of.
but 102 yards is not an acceptable output, if it happens regularly. that's considered a bad day today...if Dak had 102 yards, this board would have 123 threads on that stat alone.if Rodgers had a 102 yard day, he would be called over the hill, done. but when rush has 102 yard day, there is 10s of responses and excuses. lets just agree, that wasn't pretty passing day and lets not have another one.
I think cooper is what he is. a safe, drive the bus QB, who needs help to win and he can play within that system. This is as good as he gets. lets not forget in all his starts we never scored more than 25 points and that's with defenses help and we never gave up more than 17. he may be smart but he lacks arm strength and physical ability to be a top 15 QB in this league. now, there is something to be said about smarts, but that won't get you far in the playoffs when the level of play goes up a couple of notches and you need physical ability to make things happen.
now, that may come across as criticism. or negative, its not. its reality. I am content with that. I am happy to have him. I won't give him a lot of credit, but I give a lot of credit to the defense. they scored enough to be in a tie game yesterday. one field goal from offense would have won the game. and I give credit to coaches, they have done a fantastic job putting in game plans that lead to wins. I give credit to moore the OL and the RBs, despite some challenges they stick to it and make a play now and then. yesterday we rushed 30 times, vs. 16 passes. that's 65% run ratio.
and lets not forget, in preseason 99.95% of this board, wanted Rush gone and look for another back up QB. now, everyone is foaming at the mouth for Rush.
