Dak and something that doesn't show up on stat sheet

[jrumann59]

I have to disagree here. They played very well 2 of the first 3 weeks of the season. One down game doesn't make you weak ***. They have a very good front 4 and now have some solid pieces in the secondary as well. There solid, at least.

NYG barely beat the Dak and Dunk attack, they hard a hard time against the Skins, they did play well enough against the saints.

 

[jrumann59]

Haha, I still recall clear as day "He will never play an NFL snap." Then it goes to "Well these are just vanilla defenses, wait until he sees an exotic blitz and teams gameplan him!" Now it is "Well the level of competition is bad, wait until he plays a REAL team, then we will know!" So predictable it is kinda funny.

So are the three teams he planned top 10 defenses, NYG may have a very good front four the rest of their defense is suspect, Wash has middling defense at best, and Chicago is so ravaged by injuries their defense is as bad as Dallas's. Dak has played better than expected by a wide margin, but with romo NYG is a win, we run away from the skins and Chicago would have been over by half. Now the one thing Dak has done has made the offense more team oriented, the offense used to be similar to early days of Jordan where the team would sit back and watch and not contribute, similar to when romo is at the helm, team gets caught up in Romo Magic.

 

[rbr651]

Speaking from experience and working around, with and for great leaders Dak is not yet the leader of this team. His play is great but he hasn't been in the role long enough to be seen as the leader. You can not simply walk into a qb spot and automatically assume that title. Adversity and hardship creates leaders. And like it or not, until he leaves Romo is the leader of this team and seen as the leader by his peers.

 

[DC Cowboy]

It's funny how the goalposts keep getting pushed back for Dak. "Well it's just preseason. He won't do that in a real game!" Then he's doing it in real games. "Well, those teams aren't legit." He's putting up points on the scoreboard. "Well those aren't REAL points! He didn't throw it into the endzone!" Dak is legit. Coaches will scheme him, but he's a film buff and he will adjust.

True, 100 % agree, but here is what I am not seeing here. Some of you say there isn't enough film on him yet. I coach and you can have all the film you want on a player. Take the last game for instance, we went empty backfield on the Bears, did their film study prepare them for that b/c I sure as hell didn't see that against the Giants and/or Skins. So they study film and leave a spy, so now do your DBs cover/contain Beasley, Dez, Witten, Twill, Dunbar/Elliott. Because if they are open Dak has shown he can get them the ball. Please keep in mind just like they have film on Dak, we have film on their defense. "So far" Linehan has called 3 good games for Dak and I see them expanding the play book. I am not a "Dak" fan nor a "Romo" fan, I am a Cowboys fan. But it appears some of you just can't take anything positive that this team does. Whether it is the front office "yeah they signed Dak but he was their 4th choice", we are 2-1 and could have been 3-0 but some of you complain b/c "he hasn't thrown a TD pass (before Sunday night)". Has he been perfect, no, but come on stop complaining. Look we don't have a pass rush and yet it still takes some of these QBs time to find an open man. that tells me our DBs are covering pretty good initially. There are enough positives here folks.

 

[DC Cowboy]

Speaking from experience and working around, with and for great leaders Dak is not yet the leader of this team. His play is great but he hasn't been in the role long enough to be seen as the leader. You can not simply walk into a qb spot and automatically assume that title. Adversity and hardship creates leaders. And like it or not, until he leaves Romo is the leader of this team and seen as the leader by his peers.

Well according to Dez, who is on the team, in his interview with Deion, Dak is definitely the leader on this Offense right now. Dez even stated how Dak has and will get on him about things. So I think I will take Dez word on it.

 

[Direwolf63]

They're probably losing sleep as we speak. Probably haven't eaten in weeks.

I'm not sure where you are getting this from.

I very badly wanted Wentz. And you are now seeing why.

That being said, I'm happy Dak is playing as well as he is and hope he continues growing as he moves along in his career.

Pretty simple really.

 

[Gabe]

Well according to Dez, who is on the team, in his interview with Deion, Dak is definitely the leader on this Offense right now. Dez even stated how Dak has and will get on him about things. So I think I will take Dez word on it.

Deion also said when it comes down to it, Jerry Jones will tell Romo "this is only business, it has been a great run." We haven't even seen the best of Dak yet which will occur over the next few weeks.

Romo has been here a long time, and I can for sure understand the perception that he may be the leader. However, as I mentioned in another post... Even if he does come back and play, Dak has already cast the shadow that Romo will not be able to get away from. When he has his usual 3 pick 6 game and we lose in usual Romo fashion... It is going to get VERY interesting.

Assuming Dak is 4-2 or 5-1 when Romo is ready to return... It is going to be a disaster benching your best and only chance at winning now.

 

[Pessimist_cowboy]

Playing weak *** defenses also help, yes NYG have a weak *** defense.

This is the NFL man. 1st 2 games against divisional opponents is not easy. Get a clue

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Playing weak *** defenses also help, yes NYG have a weak *** defense.

why is it posters on this site always have to find reasons to put down one of our wins?

 

[DC Cowboy]

Deion also said when it comes down to it, Jerry Jones will tell Romo "this is only business, it has been a great run." We haven't even seen the best of Dak yet which will occur over the next few weeks.

Romo has been here a long time, and I can for sure understand the perception that he may be the leader. However, as I mentioned in another post... Even if he does come back and play, Dak has already cast the shadow that Romo will not be able to get away from. When he has his usual 3 pick 6 game and we lose in usual Romo fashion... It is going to get VERY interesting.

Assuming Dak is 4-2 or 5-1 when Romo is ready to return... It is going to be a disaster benching your best and only chance at winning now.

I only ref. what Dez said about Dak's leadership skills

 

[Super_Kazuya]

Deion also said when it comes down to it, Jerry Jones will tell Romo "this is only business, it has been a great run." We haven't even seen the best of Dak yet which will occur over the next few weeks.

Romo has been here a long time, and I can for sure understand the perception that he may be the leader. However, as I mentioned in another post... Even if he does come back and play, Dak has already cast the shadow that Romo will not be able to get away from. When he has his usual 3 pick 6 game and we lose in usual Romo fashion... It is going to get VERY interesting.

Assuming Dak is 4-2 or 5-1 when Romo is ready to return... It is going to be a disaster benching your best and only chance at winning now.

Has anyone in the history of the NFL even had a 3 pick-six game? You shouldn't try so hard at being an obvious troll, you could probably get by with just your normal drivel...

 

[clff15701]

Some of you guys are forgetting that he has scored rushing TDs and has several runs on the season. When you put that with our running game and you have Zero turnovers we will be hard to beat. Ball control is the name of the game and he has several long long drives.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I'm not sure where you are getting this from.

I very badly wanted Wentz. And you are now seeing why.

That being said, I'm happy Dak is playing as well as he is and hope he continues growing as he moves along in his career.

Pretty simple really.

No I don't see why. As good of a player as he was in college no one can sit here and told me they'd expect this right now. And no one should be clamoring over the loss of Wentz as if we either A) had a shot at him or B) didn't get Dak.

 

[Direwolf63]

No I don't see why. As good of a player as he was in college no one can sit here and told me they'd expect this right now. And no one should be clamoring over the loss of Wentz as if we either A) had a shot at him or B) didn't get Dak.

Like Dak, nobody predicted Wentz would be this good, this early. But his talent and intangibles were apparant to many. So much so that being at #4, it would have been a good move to move up to get him. It would have been a good move in March/April. It would still have been a good move today.

As luck would have it, Jerry stumbled into Dak at the end of the 4th round, after trying to trade up for Lynch and Cook and failing. And now the Cowboys may have found their future franchise QB. As far as I can tell, everybody here is happy about that. Nobody is clamouring over Wentz because we now have Dak and he is playing well. Wentz is an Eagle now, so I hope he falls on his face.

But yes, had Dak been a flop, there likely would be a few guys here clamoring over Wentz. But Dak is a Cowboy now, and I'm happy about that, as all Cowboy fans are.

 

[plymkr]

What also impressed me is what Collinsworth said about how Linehan would give him 10 plays and Dak knew that Witten would know them and he didn't want to be chide by him. So he would go home each day and have a throughly understanding of the plays the next day. Eagles coach Pederson said that Wentz reminds him of Peyton Manning in his film study. Dak has been compare to Tom Brady for his work ethic by our strength coach. I am happy that Dak is on our team and hope he has a career like Brady. I am not asking for much but I just want Prescott to win more Super Bowls than Brady.

That's awesome. I'm not asking for much, just more super bowls than Tom Brady. Besides that, not much. Lol, I would also like a cowboy QB to have more super wins than any other QB. So I want Prescott to have 5 or 6 super bowl wins so a Dallas Cowboy QB could own the most super bowl wins. I thought Troy was going to get it, then that didn't go. I really, really wanted Romo to be that person. Hopefully he gets one. but Prescott has the talent and the moxie to make that dream come true. It could happen.

I believe in Prescott

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

There's something strong about our pieces now. The rookie backfield... Every player is unique including Romo.. Dak brings a different type of confidence to the team.

 

[Gameover]

It's funny how the goalposts keep getting pushed back for Dak. "Well it's just preseason. He won't do that in a real game!" Then he's doing it in real games. "Well, those teams aren't legit." He's putting up points on the scoreboard. "Well those aren't REAL points! He didn't throw it into the endzone!" Dak is legit. Coaches will scheme him, but he's a film buff and he will adjust.

They did the same with Romo. I remember plenty were complaining he hadn't played a good team. His first "real" test came against the Colts. He threw for like 220 yards, 0td, 2int. Romo fans will forget that when Daks inevitable bad game comes.

 

[Fmart322]

2 dropped TD's lost that game, not the defense.

Playing weak *** defenses also help, yes NYG have a weak *** defense.

 

[Irvin88_4life]

I think his playoff record is a combination of factors...

1. He's had a mediocre D the majority of those 13 years
2. The coaching staff in Dallas has been consistently out-coached during his tenure
3. Bad luck with injuries and calls (TO and Terry Glenn injuries in 2007, Terry Glenn fumble and bobbled snap in Seattle, bad call on Dez catch in GB in 2014)
4. He's not consistently played his best football in the playoffs

Well he only became a starter half way through 2006.......it's not 13 years is almost 10 years as a starter

 

[Hawkeye19]

Well he only became a starter half way through 2006.......it's not 13 years is almost 10 years as a starter

True... Good point