@88sAndHeartbreak the weakness of your ON PACE argument is that Dak beat up on the poor defenses- averaged 475 yards against Atl, Seat, Clev. whereas he only accumulated 266 yards against the Rams.
Also factoring in that he had Tyron and Martin for those game, it's innocuous to try and use ON PACE as anything of use.
but isn't that what you expect? your stats, any QBs stats over time against better defenses is always lower than them playing against weaker defenses. you just stated the obvious, but in someway, wanted Dak to have similar stats against Rams the #1 defense in the league...yet, we forget the fact that the cowboys defense was on an all time historic pace, giving up yards, passing and rushing, and all time historic pace in giving up points.
and people project, all the time. Dalton fans have been projecting all along. are you going to criticize their projections? are you a Dalton Fan?
fact is he would probably not break all time record, unless the defense would cease their all time historic suckiness, which would have forced the offense to continuously have to play catch up since defense could never hold and they pretty much never able to hold in the first 4 or 5 weeks. plus, 3 of those first 5 teams were playoff teams, with two of them having won their playoff games this past weekend. is that hindsight? perhaps, given at the time we didn't know how good those teams were and now we know in fact they were good.