Dak Better Not Be A One Year Wonder

[noshame]

The key to Dak's success is Linehan. If he continues to expand the offense, utilize all of Dak's skills, keeps away from pridictable play calls, Dak will take us there.

 

[DandyDon52]

Big shoes to fill? Tony has won 2 playoff games in his entire career

and dak started 0-1 just like tony.
The QB's arent the problem

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

and dak started 0-1 just like tony.
The QB's arent the problem

Yea but he didn't fumble the snap.

 

[fishspill]

Lol, this thread sounds a lot like the most of last year..."next week is our real test" I'm not worried at all about Dak, if anything, I think he'll be even better.

There's a handful of people on this board who honestly don't want Dak to succeed. It's truly bizarre.

 

[LittleD]

The key to Dak's success is Linehan. If he continues to expand the offense, utilize all of Dak's skills, keeps away from pridictable play calls, Dak will take us there.

Not necessarily... Linehan got completely away from the season gameplan of Zeke left, right, & center in the 4th qtr of that Packer's
playoff game. Running the ball is our ticket and having Dak try and pass his way to victory is fools gold for at least a couple of years.
Linehan should have known this. Real bad coaching there.

 

[whynot]

Sophomore slump is a real possibility. He's gonna throw more than 4 picks, that's for sure. He got lucky last year. But I feel good about him being our guy. He's only 24 and the sky is the limit.

Remember when David Garrard went a season throwing only 3 INTs?
I don't think Dak is a one year wonder, but at the same time I'm not convinced he's the rock solid future just yet.

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

There's a handful of people on this board who honestly don't want Dak to succeed. It's truly bizarre.

And there's a truckful on this board that didn't want Romo to succeed. You're right it is bizarre.

 

[JoeKing]

I'm so pissed at Jerry right now for releasing Romo that I hope Dak IS a one hit wonder. Jerry deserves to be taught a lesson and I think the down fall of Dak would do it... but then I calm down and see more clearly. Dak is the real deal, not a one hit wonder. He's a good kid that I want to see succeed. If he's used right, like all the players we have, we have the current potential to be a contender for many years to come. The thing that will effect those expectations the most is fixing the defense and of course that will require the old duffer that I'm pissed at now to make better decisions for the team... thus the conundrum. Jerry's bad decisions are the Cowboys biggest impediment in getting to another SB... and here he is about to be rewarded for his bad behavior by being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

 

[sean10mm]

And there's a truckful on this board that didn't want Romo to succeed. You're right it is bizarre.

Romo was dead to like half the fanbase after the botched hold in Seattle, and never won them back no matter what he did.

For a lunatic fringe of the people who WERE loyal to Romo, Dak is the usurper. Never mind that we finally reached the point where age and injuries made moving on from Romo actually rational (as opposed to 2007 or whatever the insane Romo haters believed.)

 

[DandyDon52]

Yea but he didn't fumble the snap.

he wasnt holding on kicks !
bottom line same results.

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

If he is, we are totally screwed now. He has big shoes to fill, lets all hope he succeeds.

Better stated. Dak better stay on the field and win more than 2 playoff games in a decade!!

 

[Thefeelofcotton]

If you watch Dak last year and compare him to other rookie phenom QBs (RG3, Luck, Kaep) the difference is in his mechanics. It seemed that as the year went on he became more and more comfortable with the offense, his mechanics started to shine through which is why he was still very effective against the Packers in the playoffs.

Now, I fully understand that teams will now have a years worth of tape, and an off-season to disect it all. Will this present more challenges, absolutely. There is one thing though that will help Dak avoid a sophomore slump: Zeke.

If Dak is having a bad game, we can just lean on the awesome O-Line and hand the ball off until Dak comes out of his slump. The one thing that I love about Dak is his work ethic. He wants to perfect his craft, as seen from the Gruden QB Camp and his pre-season work.

TLDR: Dak will be just fine.

 

[Doomsday101]

I believe in Dak too, but we will likely end up with only $2.5M to play core players and we won't have a decent backup if something happens to Dak next year. ....and $19.4M in dead money.

You talk about 1 year I am talking the next 3 years of Romo contract. Cowboys have a QB in place and the opportunity to clear 3 years’ worth of a deal off the books. Romo deal is not some 1 year thing. I understand that no backup would be as good as Romo but that is 24 million sitting on the bench, that is stupid, and no team would even think of doing it. I get fans who are loyal to Romo I think the world of him but from strictly business stand point it makes no sense to keep him

 

[plasticman]

Dak Prescott will improve his game. That is typically what happens in a QB's 2nd year.

 

[YosemiteSam]

You talk about 1 year I am talking the next 3 years of Romo contract. Cowboys have a QB in place and the opportunity to clear 3 years’ worth of a deal off the books. Romo deal is not some 1 year thing. I understand that no backup would be as good as Romo but that is 24 million sitting on the bench, that is stupid, and no team would even think of doing it. I get fans who are loyal to Romo I think the world of him but from strictly business stand point it makes no sense to keep him

He was never going to be on the books for three years. The point being is if you kept him. His money wouldn't be "dead money". It would be money "used on a backup QB". Cutting him converts the used money into dead money.

Everyone cries about cap issues. The only way you get into cap hell is with dead money.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Dak Prescott will improve his game. That is typically what happens in a QB's 2nd year.

RGIII said hello

 

[Doomsday101]

Dak has been consistently good at every level of football he has played in. The fact that he is super smart and talented, suggests he will be a super star. He is nothing like the past one year wonders.

I agree even at Miss St he improved year by year. The kid has a great work ethic and the talent. I expect Dak to continue to work and improve himself as a player

 

[Doomsday101]

He was never going to be on the books for three years. The point being is if you kept him. His money wouldn't be "dead money". It would be money "used on a backup QB". Cutting him converts the used money into dead money.

Everyone cries about cap issues. The only way you get into cap hell is with dead money.

if he is not going to be on the books for 3 year they why delay? So we delay the hit on the last 2 years of the deal? If Romo stays he is a 24 mill backup if released we saves 5 mill off the cap this year and the 19.5 and 20 mill base are off the books.

 

[ghosttown cowboy]

He might be, I don't think he will, but he might...there are a lot of things that can happen...I guess we will find out in 6 months...

 

[Yakuza Rich]

There's a handful of people on this board who honestly don't want Dak to succeed. It's truly bizarre.

It's a love for Romo combined with the ego to prove that they are 'right' along with the habit of complaining. Romo leaving gives them something to complain about and Dak doing well combats that. And if the team does better with Dak than it does with Romo, their long held beliefs that Romo was infallible are crushed and they start to look the fool.

I disagree that there are the other side where there are people that want to see Romo fail. Romo has his skins on the wall and with that comes the criticism when you only win 2 playoff games in your career and don't have a very good postseason performance. Right or wrong, many fans simply want to move on from Romo because he hasn't met their expectations. That comes with the territory for any QB.

The difference with Dak is that he's played 1 season and had a better season than any season Romo has ever played...and people still try to find any excuse to say we should keep Romo and make him the starter...such as the utterly preposterous notion that Romo scored a TD on 1 drive against the Eagles in a meaningless game while Dak only got a FG in his 1 drive in that game.

You can't make this stuff up.





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