Do coaches deserve credit for Dak?

[robjay04]

So, where are the links that showed 32 had Dak around the 5th round? (fact not just your opinion)

The fact that every team passed on him for four straight rounds and at least a half dozen quarterbacks went before him?

He would've went earlier if teams graded him higher. He plays the most important position on the football field.

 

[Section446]

When it comes to QB, everyone on the team, from the equipment guys to the HC deserves credit.

 

[Zekeats]

Our coaches are horrible and deserve 0 credit. When this team wins it wins despite the coaching. Not sure if it is as bad as the 95 cowboys but it's pretty close.

 

[jday]

We love to blast coaches at any opportunity but are we slow to give them credit? What we are seeing from Dak is unusual. Hearing Jimmy Johnson talk about how rare it is to see rookie QB process all of this so quickly really hit home for me. When I see Romo on sidelines, I don't see him near Dak. I believe Dallas is correctly simplifying this and only letting Linehan in his ear. I really don't see how much Wade could have worked with Dak in such short time period. So are we just seeing Dallas striking oil here or is Linehan pulling off one of his best coaching assignments?

No offense to the coaches, but I think Dak wants it that bad, has the requisite physical size, ability and strength, and comes equipped with a ridiculous amount of intangibles for a 23 year old no more impressive than the all important workhard that is a very rare quality in kids that age. I think the coaches are doing a good job keeping the game manageable, but you can tell the training wheels are still on. They have yet to truly let this kid loose...they have only scratched the surface of what he can do.

 

[Gameover]

Jimmy Johnson needs to wake and realize it's not 1985 anymore.

As I said all along: If you can play, you can play.

 

[Vanilla2]

Jerry deserves all the credit

 

[nobody]

We love to blast coaches at any opportunity but are we slow to give them credit? What we are seeing from Dak is unusual. Hearing Jimmy Johnson talk about how rare it is to see rookie QB process all of this so quickly really hit home for me. When I see Romo on sidelines, I don't see him near Dak. I believe Dallas is correctly simplifying this and only letting Linehan in his ear. I really don't see how much Wade could have worked with Dak in such short time period. So are we just seeing Dallas striking oil here or is Linehan pulling off one of his best coaching assignments?

They are doing a good job with him, but Romo is involved in that too, even if you didn't see it on the sideline. Romo is the one mic'd in with Dak, so he's constantly talking to him.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Never mind the fact that they scouted him, liked what they saw and decided to draft him at a higher value than anybody else had on him.

Let's just say it was a complete and total accident.

Lets also don't forget that Jerry publicly regretted not trading a 3rd to draft Paxton Lynch and Jerry also tried to make a trade with the Raiders for Connor Cook at the top of the 2nd round, but it fell through.

So yea, they scouted Dak and drafted him after they whiffed trying to draft two other QBs.

Dak was obviously the 5th ranked QB on their draft board with Goff, Wentz, Lynch, and Cook all rated higher. I think it is pretty obvious that nobody, not even Dallas, thought Dak would be anywhere near as good as he has been and yea, luck is a big factor in drafting.

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

The fact that every team passed on him for four straight rounds and at least a half dozen quarterbacks went before him?

He would've went earlier if teams graded him higher. He plays the most important position on the football field.

So basically teams were wrong in their rating for Dak since they had him as a 5th round prospect.

 

[Sportsbabe]

I tend to agree with you 100% on this one. Logically, history says our coaches have just been standing by in awe and letting Dak be Dak.

That's a home right?

 

[Bleu Star]

That's a home right?

I'll give you this. The coaches deserve credit for drafting Dak, giving him the playbook, orienting him to our culture, and allowing him to perfect his craft. Outside of that standard hospitality, all credit goes to Dak for continuing to blow all expectations out of the stratosphere.

I'll let the forum experts minimize Dak's contribution to where he is right now while I sit back and chomp on this popcorn.

 

[Dodger12]

Is this an attempt to find something positive about our coaching? How about the coaches just coach and try to excel at that because they had little to do with drafting Dak. No doubt they gave an evaluation at some point because they coached him in the Senior Bowl. But our GM loved that evaluation so much that he frantically tried to trade back up into the 1st round for Lynch and tried to move up for Cook. Dak was plan C.

Now that doesn't matter if Dak pans out and, if he does, who cares where he was drafted? But he's got a ways to go.

 

[kevinhickey]

Dak deserves credit for being Dak. The guy who is learning, improving and works hard.

The credit is Dak and we have give some high fives to the scouting dept.

 

[CowboyRoy]

We love to blast coaches at any opportunity but are we slow to give them credit? What we are seeing from Dak is unusual. Hearing Jimmy Johnson talk about how rare it is to see rookie QB process all of this so quickly really hit home for me. When I see Romo on sidelines, I don't see him near Dak. I believe Dallas is correctly simplifying this and only letting Linehan in his ear. I really don't see how much Wade could have worked with Dak in such short time period. So are we just seeing Dallas striking oil here or is Linehan pulling off one of his best coaching assignments?

I have thought about this one a lot myself. Its hard for me to give the coaches credit because of how much they have failed with the last backup QB's. I want to tell myself they just got lucky with Dak. But what I saw in the preseason with them gearing the play calling to fit Dak tells me they understand what they have and what they have to do. Not sure how much of that is Linehan. I would say most of it. But then again I am biased. And then the horrid coaching debacle of the first game and then we saw how they saw the errors and flipped the script in game #2.

I think 80% of it is Dak jsut being a great young QB. Ill give 20% to the coaching staff for run of the mill recognition of what they have.

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

if we rip them, then we have to credit them too

If you have honor sure but most people have no honor that I recognize.

 

[Doomsday101]

Yeah right Dallas coaches are playing no part in the development of Dak. LOL god some of you people are too funny. You would cut off your nose to spite your face before giving credit to any coach with the Dallas Cowboys. I'm sure if Dak was struggling the same fools would be hollering how we did not have a coach who could develop him. hell guys like Wade Wilson and Jason Garrett know a hell of a lot more of what it takes to play in the NFL over some wanna be message board coaches they have done it they have played the NFL what has any one here done?

 

[DeaconMoss]

The team spent a lot of time with him. Numerous visits and workouts. If they were that sold on him, waiting to the 4th was a risk.

 

[Bleu Star]

Yeah right Dallas coaches are playing no part in the development of Dak. LOL god some of you people are too funny. You would cut off your nose to spite your face before giving credit to any coach with the Dallas Cowboys. I'm sure if Dak was struggling the same fools would be hollering how we did not have a coach who could develop him. hell guys like Wade Wilson and Jason Garrett know a hell of a lot more of what it takes to play in the NFL over some wanna be message board coaches they have done it they have played the NFL what has any one here done?

I won my 3rd grade spelling bee.

 

[noshame]

I'm sure somebody's mentioned it by now but Romo deserves a lot of credit he spent a lot of time with Dak and probably taught him more about the nuances of this offense to any of the coaches could

 

[Doomsday101]

I'm sure somebody's mentioned it by now but Romo deserves a lot of credit he spent a lot of time with Dak and probably taught him more about the nuances of this offense to any of the coaches could

Romo spent time with the QB who were on the team last season as well. Not all players will respond and make it hell there are SB winning teams who have players who fail and never meet expectations yet I seriously doubt their fans discredit the coaches for players who do develop. These are not robot being programed they are people and you can work with a player and coach a player all day and yet some will not produce for many different reasons. Players have a responsibility in all of this not coaches alone