Dak looking to break another record. Good luck!

[plasticman]

Dak is a smart football player in a fantastic situation.

Unlike many rookies on bad teams, he doesn't end up in games where he has to to throw deep late to get a score because Dallas is trailing. Having a powerful ground game also takes a lot of pressure off of him.

Aside from the 1st game last year vs. the Giants, and the Pittsburgh game, [last game of the year vs. Philly doesn't count] I don't recall Dak having to run a hurry up offense in the final minutes trying to get a score while trailing. Without TWill's brain fart, we likely win that first game on a long Bailey FG. We all know what happened vs. the Steelers.

This is why I'm so encouraged by what the defense showed in the 1st game. I don't see us having a bunch of games this year where we enter the 4th quarter trailing and so Dak has to start putting the ball up to get some points in a hurry and risking the football. It's very much looking like ANOTHER year in which situations where Dak has to risk the football are going to be kept to a bare minimum.

Cassell and Weeden were in the same fantastic situation and those two experienced vets couldn't come close to Dak's achievements.

Heck, Weeden was even spotted a 2-0 start for the season, completed 24 of 28 in his first start and still managed to toss an INT.

They started off with a 14-0 lead off the Falcons, an eventual Super Bowl team" and was leading 21-7 when Weeden threw that INT on the Cowboy 19. It was the beginning of the end for the game and the season.

That is how devastating an INT can be. That is what Dak has been preventing for the Cowboys so far in his career.

You can be put in a fantastic situation and it will mean nothing unless you make the effort to take advantage of it.
If that was easy then we would still have Weeden backing up Romo today but we don't.

Dak Prescott won games for the Cowboys, made serious, critical plays that were the difference.

The Cowboys did indeed enter the 4th quarter trailing last season several times.

Only two other QB's engineered more 4th quarter comebacks than our rookie QB last season.

Here is another interesting tidbit:

The four INT's were impressive enough, BUT DAK DIDN'T THROW A SINGLE ONE IF THEM WHEN THE COWBOYS WERE TRAILING.

I repeat:

When the Cowboys were losing, Dak never threw an INT.

How many Hall of Famers can say that about a single one of their seasons, much less their rookie one.

That isn't the result of a fantastic situation, it is the result of a fantastic quarterback.