Dak decision making

I hear ya man. Like I said I agree for the most part. I agree completely on the QB and receivers getting reps. The only thing that worries me is that Dak's performance was a little too eerily familiar to the end of last season for me.
 
Bluedocd said:
He is probably holding the ball a lot longer because none of the receivers are getting separation.
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In most cases, separation is based on anticipation. If Dak is waiting for the receivers to sit on their routes this will give defenders a chance to break on the ball. He's not aggressive enough, he doesn't even take a shot beyond 15 yards.
 
Bluedocd said:
He is probably holding the ball a lot longer because none of the receivers are getting separation.
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Receivers were open, but Dak doesn't like to throw on timing before a route break. He has to see a guy running free, which almost never happens in the NFL. You can't wait for blown coverages. You have to throw it into spaces they can get to. And you have to do it accurately.
 
ChronicCowboy said:
Dak had success his rookie year because the running game was having a great season, protection was ridiculously good and opposing teams weren’t prepared for him. Ever since teams have had tape on this dude, he’s gotten worse and worse.

Watching him pass is just sad. The guy doesn’t have a NFL arm.
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Think Andy Reid would take Prescott for Patrick Mahomes?

In all seriousness, they need to roll Dak out of the pocket a lot more. Rolling out is the only time he is effective at all. He seems hopeless in the pocket.
 
As I have said many times, Dak is just not a very talented QB. He has some good things going for him but he lacks the required skills to actually play QB at a high level in the NFL. He doesn't see the field real well, he doesn't appear to be good at pre snap reads and knowing where he is going with the ball pre snap, he waits for the play to develop and then tries to find an open guy. This is the NFL, not college. You won't have guys running free all over the field, you have to use ball placement and velocity to get balls into tight areas 10-15 yards down the field. He doesn't do that very well. I would give him a few more games, and then I move on. Put White in, he may not be ready but at least he has an NFL arm. We have scored 10 or few points for quite a few of the games going back to last year. How much worse could it be, really.
 
Hennessy_King said:
I absolutely do. The end of last season the o line was horrendous and the wr's were awful along with zeke just coming back. All last night the post game on nfl network talked about young qb's getting preseason off and they all looked bad. They should have been out there getting more reps.
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I agree. They were so afraid of more injuries that JJ decided to shut it down. He knew he wasn’t playing Elliot the whole preseason. He started getting heated up in the second half and the rust started coming off. Dak hasn’t been the same since the falcons game. And not sure he ever will. A far cry from the rookie year. Teams stack the box and take away his short stuff. He has to take some shots deep. I am not sure he did any yesterday.
 
How he missed Jarwin for an easy TD still blows my mind. He was looking right at him with no safety over the top. He could have lobbed the ball deep for an easy TD. IM done with #4
 
Direwolf63 said:
Think Andy Reid would take Prescott for Patrick Mahomes?

In all seriousness, they need to roll Dak out of the pocket a lot more. Rolling out is the only time he is effective at all. He seems hopeless in the pocket.
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Hell yes! Couldn't agree more! Also, might help the new Left Guard. The kid was getting beat on like a drum
 
OmerV said:
I know the pass protection wasn't good, but almost every passing play Dak is taking time looking from his primary target the next to the next. It doesn't appear there is ever a quick read on what the defense is doing and where it will be vulnerable. That's especially important when the pass protection isn't holding up. Some I'm sure is the play calling, but as the QB and the guy standing facing the defense at the line of scrimmage, Dak has to make decisions based on what he sees. As a rookie his strength seemed to be not overthinking situations, and just taking what the defense gives. That doesn't seem to be the case now.
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For the past few weeks, Dak has been in practice mode and not only Dak- the damn team has been in practice mode. A real game hit them in the mouth and they got bullied!
 
When we heard Romo yell "kill, kill" to change the the call at the LOS he was basically flipping the bird to Garrett and Linehan......Dak doesn't have that type of confidence yet.
 
I don't know about his decision making, but his accuracy sure was suspect. I do think he gets ruffled when there's a lot of pressure and his fundamentals go to hell. But there were throws where he was set and had time and gave the receiver no chance for the ball. And throws where he's rolling out where he's normally so accurate and he threw a terrible pass.

The talk about playing more in the preseason is silly if you count up how many reps a starting QB actually gets in a game. What does hurt the young QBs, I think, is not playing their own defenses in pads enough. But that's still not an excuse for being wildly inaccurate. Let's be real.
 
Someone can correct me, but our offense in 16 was very close to 2014. Runs to setup manageable 3rd downs.
16 was the year of Bease, where he would run a 5 yard in or out and get the first down.

Now, game tape is out, the line isn't as dominate, WR core still sucks, and defenses can bracket Bease.
IMO he's #1 read and #2 reads aren't open and IMO he struggles with reading the entire field in a short span of time.
The offense isn't creative enough.

Why his arm sputters on longer passes I have no clue.
 
Dak looks better in the hurry-up.
so lets start the game sunday night in the hurry-up.
 
It's the formula that doesn't work. You have a Tier 1 QB, you can get by with a little less in the receiver department but if your QB is Tier 2 or maybe even 3, you better get Tier 1 receivers to help him out. There are only a few QBs that can make household names out of nobody's and Dak isn't one of them.

I celebrated the fact that they finally turned their attention to fixing the D but didn't stop to think they'd let the O slip like that. The OL, WR and TE...none are top tier any longer and I can't blame them for the OL, that's injury based and they did address the LG in the 2nd.

But who in their right mind would put Dak in the category of Brady, Brees and Rodgers with them making the name for the WR, not the reverse? His arsenal is not even close to loaded.
 
he's a backup and that is what he was picked to be, don't pretend he's going to be rodgers. well maybe he could be rodgers with accuracy issues, pocket awareness issues and fear. yep just like rodgers.
 
The most troubling part about Dak's game is that when he does spot an open receiver he tends to throw an uncatchable ball.
 
ChronicCowboy said:
Dak had success his rookie year because the running game was having a great season, protection was ridiculously good and opposing teams weren’t prepared for him. Ever since teams have had tape on this dude, he’s gotten worse and worse.

Watching him pass is just sad. The guy doesn’t have a NFL arm.
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Thats exactly why 2016 was successful. Many a moron, some of them on the old DC.com board and a few on this one, claim it was all Garrett. The dude may have been given the coach of the year award, but it certainly wasn't due to anything he was doing. Dak and Zeke started regressing towards the end of 2016 when teams had film to study,
 
I’m out on Prescott. The Cowboys need to be drafting their franchise QB next year with a new head coach.
 
nightrain said:
he is not comfortable in the pocket
he is woefully inaccurate
he lacks confidence in his arm
he can't get off his first read
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I blame the coaches. They need to take all these things into account and come up with a scheme where none of these things are important.
 
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