Toruk_Makto
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My original reply had a question you glanced over when you compared him to Brady. The 2nd question I asked was how many passes was he throwing? Dak has ahd great completion percentages the problem is the coaches (rightly) don't trust him to throw often and when he does his passes are clustered 10 yards and in. That does a few things. It allows defenders to crowd around the line of scrimmage. It allows the defense to help stifle your run game. And it leads to a lot of 3rd and longs. Defense have not yet been forced to back up because of Dak. They welcome the long throws that Dak won't throw often unless he happens to see a WR running free (he misses this often) and defensive coordinators are happy to give that up those rare completions.In 2016 most of his yardage cane from the 11-20 yard range where he had a 61% competition percentage. His competition percentage was above 66% from 21-30 yards. This was in a down year. If you look at 2016 it much better for all zones, including 75% from 21-30 yards. So yes, Dak is effective at every depth.
Of course those same coordinators are not foolish enough to test Brady. So they always have help over top and in intermediate zones. Hence Brady is happy to take those 8 or 9 yard completions over and over. He'll throw 40 passes a game. Dak...is not doing that. In fact last year he threw 20% fewer passes. So when your qb is barely throwing the ball and when he does its 10 yards and in. That's a problem. It's embarrassing looking at completion percentage alone without context. As I have wrote many times Dak was a bottom 10 starting QB in average air yards per attempt. Couple that with Dak averaging just over 7 passes a quarter...and well...that's a problem. A problem Tom Brady does not share.