those skills didn't give Carolina fits...they contained him easily...the giants gave up 13 points into the 4th quarter....any DC will take that if you ask him any day of the week. one long pass play, does not a weapon make. consistency is key. we don't have that. we have a play here, a drive there and the rest is meh.....
Aikman wasn't bus driver, his ability to read defenses, withstand pressure and make accurate throws is what made him special. I don't call that bus driver. he took from the defenses with his arm and ability...just because he couldn't run, it didn't make him a bus driver, then I guess you would call Brady a bus driver too?
The irony in this is... We didn’t win consistently with Romo either. But he was allotted 10 years of excuses.
IMHO I did offer a fair evaluation. I gave him praise for the one big play and pointed out the flaw in the rest.
So..... You just don’t like athletic quarterbacks huh? Hmmmm..... I wonder why?
you are equating scrambling ability, with play making ability. the two aren't the same. one is for ESPN Highlight reels, the other is ability to make tough throws....accurately and putting your offensive players in position to succeed.
I do...I like athletic QBS. but more importantly I like accurate QBs that can effectively throw from the pocket. if they can't, all the athleticism in the world, ain't going to make the team better. Romo was athletic but he was very accurate and good pocket passewr first...his scrambling ability just allowed him to make plays out of broken plays....that's gravy. if the only time you can make plays is running and scrambling but you can't do the rest...you are not a good QBSo..... You just don’t like athletic quarterbacks huh? Hmmmm..... I wonder why?
I don't want to make too quick a judgement on Dak. You can excuse a lot of things when someone is still young. 4-5 years in I don't think any excuses are applicable
We are only two games into a season and you are mocking "consistency" because the performance in the first game of the season didn't meet your approval? So the only thing that would make you happy is perfection. It's obvious you only care about stats and Dak will never be good enough for you.
By year 3, with 34 regular season starts and one playoff start under his belt, you would hope that he would be further along in his reads and decision making.
its not just about this season, this is just continuation from last season. now its 10+ games..... and its regression as opposed to improvements. I don't want perfection. I want better than 15/24 for 96 yards and 4YPA and lets not even discuss the Carolina game mess and we can continue back to last season.....sorry, I just don't see Dak as a high level caliber NFL QB.... you can make your own judgement.
That's a fair statement. But he is only in year three. Not yet having a full third year. Year one it seemed like they gave him free reign. Year two it seems like they gave him a vanilla Playbook. Now in year 3 it looks like he has freedom again. I hope that gives him confidence and helps him learn to get through his progressions faster. You can't turn a quarter back into something that they are not. She does not have the best pocket awareness. Thus makingmaking him a traditional pocket passer will not work. That's why he was very bad last year. Seldom did he take off and run. Having that skill-set for defenses to worry about freeze up receivers because the defense has to have a guy spying the QB the entire time
We are a different team from last season so you can't be thinking like that. If you are going to fairly evaluate this team then evaluate this version of this team meaning only what is done this season. With the exception of their first game, they are undefeated but you are calling it regression. If you don't accept that statement then you are looking for perfection. You don't just want wins, you want them to win a certain way.
Brady never had the overall talent that Aikman had when they were playing meaningful games. Brady also managed to play at a sustained level of excellence far longer than Troy. I loved Troy Aikman and he was a big part of what we did here in the 90s, but let's not mistake the fact that it was Emmitt that was the engine that drove this team, not Troy. I also did not say that Troy was a bus driver. I said it was arguable that he was and it is a valid opinion.
There are a lot of QBs who have performed better after 34 starts. That is a decent sample size to determine if a QB will be successful. Dak has had some success, but not running the kind of schemes that work long term for a QB. There are exceptions to the rule (Cam seems to be shaping up into that), but for the most part, RPO QBs don't have a good record for longevity in the NFL.
