I don't know. I feel like it's a little early to go out shopping for White Walls just yet. I watched the Jets Detroit game and that kinda brought me back to reality. That's the wheels coming off folks and that's not what I saw last Sunday with the Cowboys. What I saw last Sunday was a team who didn't value the importance of Pre-Season the right way and it showed. I mean, I guess we shouldn't be surprised about this, Jerry has said that he thought it would be a good idea to shorten Pre-Season and extend the regular season several times and that, at least to me, represents the view of the franchise IMO. They just didn't think that the time was needed to get ready, is all I can figure, and they were clearly wrong there. Dak and this Offense needs to play in the Off Season and it showed. You can't expect to come out hitting on all cylinders when you have your Star Running Back coming off the season he had the year before, when you've lost the mainstay of, not only your Offense but your entire team, in Witten, when you are missing your All Pro Starting Center and are starting a Rookie RG, when you have lost as big a part of your Offense as Dez was and replaced him with several new WRs, you just can't expect that. You have to put in the reps and that didn't happen with us. That's not on Dak, that's on Management and Coaching. The issues I saw with Dak were more about timing and experience. Dak went to the right reads from what I could tell. He just didn't go through progressions quickly enough, he didn't execute his mechanics crisply enough and his reads and progressions were slow. All of that is a product of not getting enough playing time IMO. I mean, you can also attribute some of it to changing his mechanics but either way, all of that comes down to playing time. I don't care what anybody says, practice is not playing. It's different and anybody who doesn't understand that is playing head games with themselves. You can't simulate that real game situation in practice no matter how hard you try.
Anyway, I don't think it's time to give up on Dak. I think Dak showed that he has something in the first season. The mistake here was not building on that, not identifying what worked and growing that. All QBs mature and develop but there is a difference between developing and changing a players game to the point that it is no longer effective. Thing is, we can't know if the thing Dak has been taught are helping him or not because guess what, you gotta be able to actually play to implement those changes and perfect them and that hasn't happened with this team.
JMO
