By the time the Cowboys played the Bills, Dallas was ranked second in play-action usage and a third of Dak’s yards were off of it. 30% of his plays are off play-action with Moore. Garrett had no control over the offense and hasn’t since 2014. Dallas with Linehan and Moore have basically installs play action for Dak when he runs from Center or out of shotgun and don’t use him in traditional five to seven step drops, which severely limits them especially in play calling, especially in the Coryell. They’ve been catering Dak’s limitation his whole career. They got rid of Dez after he was supposedly the reason Dak was forcing the ball to him and made the offense Dak friendly and Dakwas supposedly the guy, because he doesn’t force the ball, but takes what’s given to him. That failed, so they got Cooper. Cole Beasley was a victim of the Dak apologetics, though teams basically started doubling him which resulted in Dak bumming in 2017-2018. Cole went to the Bills and had his second best season ever and most TDs I believe in his career for a season if I remember correctly.
Further, this idea that Zeke isn’t impacting the way defenses play the Cowboys and that Dak is basically a product of the run game is a joke. That stat isn’t going to show up in amount of times Zeke runs into stacked boxes, though with the amount of times Zeke has actually run into them, because defenses don’t think much of Dak, has consistently worn him down over the years. It’s no surprise Dallas is mediocre in the red zone when Dak has to go through his progressions.
Again, this idea that the offense and play calling hasn’t been adjusted to Dak’s “skill set” is utterly asinine.
As Hyde, the safety of the Bills said:
“I think it starts with stopping the run,” Bills safety Micah Hyde said Tuesday. “That’s the No. 1 thing. From there, you try to make them one-dimensional. ... Put the offense in passing situations, that’s when you’re able to get takeaways.”
Dak completely sucked against 3 of the 4 top five defenses against play action, including the awful
Bears for a reason. The only one he played decent against was the Rams and that’s because Zeke went off the OL stymied even AD, who didn’t get to Dak.
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