I dont think Roger had even played in the NFL yet when. He was Dak's age. Plus Roger had Landry and a great defense. As if it were all Daks fault. Smh
Bingo, some don't really look at the teams around Staubach and Aikman and what was missing when they didn't deliver.
It was well known back then how Staubach campaigned to get Landry to let him call his own plays. Landry knew that would be a mistake because Staubach would call his own number too much or too many pass plays because he was that type a QB, a playmaker himself. Both Staubach and Aikman were more game managers than Romo was and their job was to get the ball into the hands of the playmakers just as Starr, Bradshaw, Montana and eventually, Elway, learned.
You put any decent QB on the field with a D that he cannot trust to be consistent and he will play differently that he would like to play. Not having a D like that in the last 20 years made Aikman and every other QB play differently. They felt pressure on every drive because that old strategy of keep it close and win it in the 4th hasn't worked in 25 years.
The truth about Dak Prescott is that we don't know his ceiling but he did improve from the previous season. To think a QB has peaked 4 seasons in is to ignore the historical data. And if we think leading a NFL team is just a natural thing to QB's, that's just not the case.
Prescott is like Emmitt or Witten to me. When I think about Emmitt as a runner or Witten as a pass receiver, they don't break the top 5. But consider everything that goes into those positions and how they impact the rest of the offense, they are easily elevated into that area and adding that one little underappreciated element, availability, they're top 2 or 3.
Too much time is spent here examining the critical elements of Prescott's game, the inconsistent accuracy, and not the overall effect of his presence on that team on that field and in that locker room. And that is why they will not tag him, they have to have him on board for stability.
I think one thing some here might not realize is that the D he had at Miss St was better, comparatively speaking, than the ones he's had in the NFL.
