Zeke didn’t do much? What were you watching? He rushed for over 125 yards and a TD and pretty much was involved in every successful drive. Plus Dez played lights out in the second half..
I have to agree with the other poster, to a certain extent. Now I will admit that there were not a lot of snaps to go around in the first half for either player but watch that game again and take notice of Carolina's Defense.
Of course and Dak hasn’t shown any consistent ability to throw the ball downfield and until he does, he’s going to be the main problem. Teams so far (aka Carolina) are loading the box on 2nd and 17 this year and daring Dak to throw deep.
He's not the main problem Khiladi. He is along for the ride. I am not one of those Dak holy war guys. I wasn't with Tony or anybody else either. I told everybody, before the draft that I thought Dak was not very accurate and was not at all sure he could be effective as a Starter in the NFL. I am, however a guy who has seen enough football to understand where the problem is on this Football team.
It is not with the young QB. You can't even start to evaluate him until you can get a solid base in there for him to work with. Do injuries happen? Sure they do and you have to play through them and execute but you shouldn't be starting the season off with the things we are seeing today. Those things are all correctable yet we didn't correct any of them in the off season. You can't hold a young player accountable for the failures of the Coaching Staff or the Front Office. That's what bad franchises do. Teams like New England, they don't do that. If they had, a 6th round pick like Tom Brady, who couldn't run at all, who can barely move, who is as slow as molasses in winter, would never have had a chance to become what he is today. I'm not saying Dak is the guy but I am saying that you can't know if he is or if he isn't when the team is screwing things up from the jump. If you watched Dak in College, you had to know that he was not a prototypical NFL QB. You had to understand what his strengths were and were not. If you know this, then how do you come to the conclusion that he can be Tom Brady in his third year? I mean, that is just stupid, to expect that, yet I feel like that's exactly what many expect, including this coaching staff. You don't put it all on him. You fix what you need to to allow our strength to make a difference.
We can't know what he is until this team is at least stable enough to see how he performs under manageable conditions. At least, thats what I think.
