Dak Prescott deserves more respect

[America's Cowboy]

NFL playoff QB's last 10 years

NAME	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1		Tom Brady	19	517	836	61.8	6,055	7.2	318.7	35	14	90.8	4.2	1.7	33	189
2		Carson Palmer	2	48	81	59.3	584	7.2	292.0	4	6	67.1	4.9	7.4	6	29
3		Aaron Rodgers	10	244	384	63.5	2,847	7.4	284.7	20	7	95.7	5.2	1.8	30	224
4		Alex Smith	3	73	117	62.4	682	5.8	227.3	4	1	86.2	3.4	0.9	6	17
5		Peyton Manning	3	51	92	55.4	539	5.9	179.7	2	1	75.4	2.2	1.1	9	75
6		Cam Newton	4	77	131	58.8	1,110	8.5	277.5	5	2	92.7	3.8	1.5	12	128
7		Ben Roethlisberger	7	201	303	66.3	2,259	7.5	322.7	14	9	91.5	4.6	3.0	9	64
8		Joe Webb	5	0	0		0		0.0	0	0				0	0
9		Russell Wilson	8	159	252	63.1	2,094	8.3	261.8	14	5	99.5	5.6	2.0	27	149
10		Derek Anderson	2	0	1	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	39.6	0.0	0.0	0	0
11		Brock Osweiler	2	37	65	56.9	365	5.6	182.5	2	3	63.9	3.1	4.6	3	17
12		Matthew Stafford	9	210	321	65.4	2,597	8.1	288.6	18	4	103.8	5.6	1.2	20	124
13		Connor Cook	1	18	45	40.0	161	3.6	161.0	1	3	30.0	2.2	6.7	3	22
14		Eli Manning	1	23	44	52.3	299	6.8	299.0	1	1	72.1	2.3	2.3	2	4
15		Matt Moore	1	29	36	80.6	289	8.0	289.0	1	1	97.8	2.8	2.8	5	36
16		T.J. Yates	1	0	0		0		0.0	0	0				0	0
17		Matt Ryan	5	113	164	68.9	1,442	8.8	288.4	11	0	118.5	6.7	0.0	14	94
18		Dak Prescott	7	178	276	64.5	1,962	7.1	280.3	14	7	91.8	5.1	2.5	15	93
19		Brett Hundley	1	0	0		0		0.0	0	0				0	0
20		Marcus Mariota	10	42	69	60.9	463	6.7	46.3	4	1	94.1	5.8	1.4	10	62

It takes a whole team to make it to the playoffs. Once there, it still takes a team to win in the playoffs.

Football 101 ^^^

Should have been learned since high school.

 

[America's Cowboy]

Put Dak on the Texans and they'd be the clear super bowl favs. So, what's the problem? Two things, bloated salaries and horrific talent evaluations. (Please don't take this as an attack, it's not.)

Totally agree, K.

Dak's greediness has put him in this position. He isn't without blame.

 

[kskboys]

This was the best season of his career.......Jerry sabotaged it with the Micah Parsons trade.
*** his window is now ( 2026 and 2027)
*** In 2028, he will either sign a new deal/extension, agree to a trade or be released IMO.

Jerry sabotaged it w/ the Parsons trade and horrific player mgmt. Don't forget taking positions we didn't need and horrific evaluations of players such as Mazi. Add to that the horrific FA pickups(Sanborn/Murray especially), and you see a D completely bereft of talent, aside from Q.

 

[America's Cowboy]

He played well this year and certainly looked like the leader with the offense...he was not the problem in 2025, and if they fix the defense this team is a contender next year with him and lamb and pickens

On that Brady comp stat...maybe put up playoff wins by this point too..just to be fair

Take away those loaded offensive and defensive Patriots teams Tom Brady had, especially in the playoffs, then it would be fair. Guaranteed Dak would have even better numbers.

Just to be fair...

 

[kskboys]

Totally agree, K.

Dak's greediness has put him in this position. He isn't without blame.

And Dak's salary isn't the only QB salary keeping teams from success. It's no accident that Mahomes/Burrows/Jackson missed the playoffs and Hurts had an early exit. Meanwhile, Milton(FA from Eagles) is helping lead the Pats to playoff success.

Out of the 8 teams left, only two(BUFF, LAR) have a highly paid QB. Something has to give. You simply cannot pay one man 1/5th of the allotted salary cap and expect to maintain excellence. Broken system.

 

[kskboys]

Take away those loaded offense and defensive Patriots teams Tom Brady had, especially in the playoffs, then it would be fair. Guaranteed Dak would have even better numbers.

Absolutely no reason to compare Brady and Dak.

Brady had the best D coach of all time, and it is not conspiracy to say the refs helped him into several of those super bowls. Espeically the Tuck rule game and the 2017 AFC champ game. They couldn't make it more obvious.

 

[America's Cowboy]

And Dak's salary isn't the only QB salary keeping teams from success. It's no accident that Mahomes/Burrows/Jackson missed the playoffs and Hurts had an early exit. Meanwhile, Milton(FA from Eagles) is helping lead the Pats to playoff success.

Out of the 8 teams left, only two(BUFF, LAR) have a highly paid QB. Something has to give. You simply cannot pay one man 1/5th of the allotted salary cap and expect to maintain excellence. Broken system.

1,000,000% agree!!!

 

[GINeric]

Mahomes and Brady have multiple superbowl wins, so it’s clear they have elevated their game respectfully.

Aaron Rodgers consistently choked in the biggest moments, but still has a Super Bowl wins, a qb who should have multiple wins btw.

Talk to me when Dak makes it out of a divisional round

Ok, until Dak's out of the divisional round, explain to me why Rodgers has the same amount of Superbowl rings as Trent Dilfer, Nick Foles and Brad Johnson?

Why is Rodgers 0-4 vs Jimmy Garoppolo? Garoppolo is CLEARLY better than Rodgers, right?

I keep hearing these wonderful things about how good Josh Allen is and deservedly so. But explain to me why he hasn't been able to lead his team to a Superbowl like Colin Kaepernick? I guess until further notice, its safe to say Kaepernick was obviously much better than Josh Allen at this point in their careers, correct?

 

[Chocolate Lab]

 

[GINeric]

Take away those loaded offensive and defensive Patriots teams Tom Brady had, especially in the playoffs, then it would be fair. Guaranteed Dak would have even better numbers.

Just to be fair...

Brady was great, no doubt.... THEEE greatest, lets get that clear.

Do you realize he had to go through a gauntlet division his whole career?

He had to face the Jets, Bills and Dolphins!!!! Wait... the division was good at that time, weren't they?

 

[jsb357]

It's bait.............. don't fall prey

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

I think it's hilarious how hard the Dak Crusaders argure "If Dak only had a good team around him..."...when it's usually the first thing Dak Haters say "We could probably win if Dak had a good team around him".

It's like Bizarro World with a heaping helping of insanity.

 

[MarcusRock]

Surprised no one did this yet.

Playoff records first 10 years of career
Brady: 14-3
Dak: 2-5

 

[MarcusRock]

Absolutely no reason to compare Brady and Dak.

Brady had the best D coach of all time, and it is not conspiracy to say the refs helped him into several of those super bowls. Espeically the Tuck rule game and the 2017 AFC champ game. They couldn't make it more obvious.

Unpopular rule but it was called correctly as it was on the books then. Just got lucky.

 

[RonnieT24]

He played well this year and certainly looked like the leader with the offense...he was not the problem in 2025, and if they fix the defense this team is a contender next year with him and lamb and pickens

On that Brady comp stat...maybe put up playoff wins by this point too..just to be fair

The playoff thing with Brady is almost fair.. but remember Brady was backed by a top 5 defense like 15 of his 20 years in New England including #1 multiple times. He had multiple playoff wins scoring less than 20 points. Including 13 in a Super Bowl they won. The Cowboys have held exactly ONE playoff opponent under 20 points with Dak at the helm, ironically the 2022 Bucs with Brady at QB. Point being.. as long as our defense remains bad, Dak isn't having any playoff success.. so he's not getting any respect.

 

[GINeric]

I think it's hilarious how hard the Dak Crusaders argure "If Dak only had a good team around him..."...when it's usually the first thing Dak Haters say "We could probably win if Dak had a good team around him".

It's like Bizarro World with a heaping helping of insanity.

Its even more hilarious how the crusaders and haters can't name any quarterback in history that has ever won anything of significance WITHOUT a good team around them.

 

[RonnieT24]

Surprised no one did this yet.

Playoff records first 10 years of career
Brady: 14-3
Dak: 2-5

Playoff opponents scoring less than 20 points in first 10 years of career.

Brady: 12
Dak: 1

Hmmmm.....

 

[dupree89]

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Last I checked, that was the Dallas Cowboys playoff record. Unless football turned into boxing.

last i checked there have been numerous posts bragging about Dak's record vs the nfc east. By chance, did you correct those people?

 

[gtb1943]

Dak Prescott's first decade in the league deserves more respect....

 

[MarcusRock]

Playoff opponents scoring less than 20 points in first 10 years of career.

Brady: 12
Dak: 1

Hmmmm.....

It's actually 10 vs. 2.