News: DMN: As great as Dak Prescott's rookie campaign was, he has room to improve
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What I wholeheartedly believe is that Dak has the work ethic to improve.
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Indeed. He certainly seems have the will and the drive to take his game to a higher level, and he will. I still have to pinch myself now and then just to make sure I'm not in the middle of a blissful dream when thinking about what we stumbled upon with him (and Zeke). He would undoubtedly be the first player taken in a draft do-over, and Zeke would certainly go no lower than where he was actually picked. Add Brown, Collins, and Jaylon (all signs point to him making a full recovery) and this was one incredible draft!
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I believe that a rookie QB can improve...
CalPolyTechnique
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I'd like to see him improve his pocket awareness; there's been a number of sacks he's taken this year where that internal clock should have been going off.
I expect with a full offseason under center you're going to see marked improvement
I expect with a full offseason under center you're going to see marked improvement
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Not sure if that is totally fare to RG3. Watching the 2012 finale vs Cowboys, I forgot how he played down the stretch of that season with leg(knee) injury. We will never know how much that hurt him.
Johnny didn't believe in himself. When Johnny said he was fine sitting the bench because their were more things he needed to learn(something like that), I knew it was over for him. No competitor backs down from the challenge. Johnny wanted no parts of the speed of the NFL.
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Well duh....
He's a rookie. Of course he can improve. I don't think anybody has said he was perfect.
He's a rookie. Of course he can improve. I don't think anybody has said he was perfect.
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It'd great if Tapper can get healthy and add to that next year.
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Yep. Jerry and the coaches noted that early. He also has the humility to understand that he needs to improve.
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I'm 32 and still have a lot of room for improvement, people need to give this kid a break, he put us in position to go the NFC championship game. I just hope his teammates realize they also have lot of room for improvement as well.
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It certainly would be. I don't have a clue as to what to expect out of him, so for the time being I will expect nothing and hope to get something. He was a third round pick after all, so someone obviously thought he had talent. If both he and Jaylon Smith perform to expectations, this will have been arguably the best draft in franchise history (It's hard to argue against three HOFers from the '64 draft, though we might end up debating just that!).
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There is no doubt that Dak has room to improve. That's a given. Even the greats usually peaked several seasons into their careers. There is always more to learn and more refinement that can be done to technique.
The beauty of Dak's rookie year is that everything that set him apart from the typical rookie QB was MENTAL. He learned more, learned it faster, and applied it better than anybody transitioning from college in the modern era. This is where the comparisons to modern flash-in-the-pan QBs falls apart, because those guys almost invariably were 1-read-and-run college gimmicks. Dak isn't succeeding the way Vince Young, RG3, Tim Tebow or Colin Kaepernick did - he's making reads and going through progressions like a real NFL QB. Tim Tebow came from the same college offense as Dak (Dak's college HC was Tebow's college OC), but Tebow was never anything but a spread monkey who never learned to properly run a play from under center.
You also don't see Dak rattled by pressure in any sense - from taking hits, from game situations or from the media scrutiny of being the Cowboys starting QB. When guys who bust aren't stupid, it's usually because the pressure of the position gets to them in one way or another. Either they can't take the hits psychologically even when they can physically, or they go off the deep end off the field.
If Dak continues his approach of 2016 through 2017 and beyond, the sky's the limit for him.
The beauty of Dak's rookie year is that everything that set him apart from the typical rookie QB was MENTAL. He learned more, learned it faster, and applied it better than anybody transitioning from college in the modern era. This is where the comparisons to modern flash-in-the-pan QBs falls apart, because those guys almost invariably were 1-read-and-run college gimmicks. Dak isn't succeeding the way Vince Young, RG3, Tim Tebow or Colin Kaepernick did - he's making reads and going through progressions like a real NFL QB. Tim Tebow came from the same college offense as Dak (Dak's college HC was Tebow's college OC), but Tebow was never anything but a spread monkey who never learned to properly run a play from under center.
You also don't see Dak rattled by pressure in any sense - from taking hits, from game situations or from the media scrutiny of being the Cowboys starting QB. When guys who bust aren't stupid, it's usually because the pressure of the position gets to them in one way or another. Either they can't take the hits psychologically even when they can physically, or they go off the deep end off the field.
If Dak continues his approach of 2016 through 2017 and beyond, the sky's the limit for him.
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Pocket Awareness
Throwing in tight windows
Anticipatory throws
When seeing Dez single covered, throw it up to him everytime
These are the things I want him to work on and I expect he will.
Throwing in tight windows
Anticipatory throws
When seeing Dez single covered, throw it up to him everytime
These are the things I want him to work on and I expect he will.
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RGIII never evolved as passer. He was and still is a one read thrower that lives and dies with the big throw over the top. I say this as someone hoodwinked by his rookie season but after seeing him never progress came to this conclusion.