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[Chasing6]

Ok, then after 10 years and $60 million annually, with all the offensive talent that amounts to 61% of the team's salary cap, Dak should make the NFC Championship game. If not, he's a failure.

There is no more excuses. You can't be talent rich and go 7-10 again.

Which one of those teams has worse defense than Dallas last season?

 

[Bamx]

I'd say we're 2nd for sure.

Prescott > Goff
Gibbs > Williams
Lamb > St. Brown
Pickens > Williams
La Porta > Feguson

Could even make the argument for 1st, but I won't.

Pats O will be better once Henderson is on the field more.

 

[DarkVader33]

Show me the people who you are talking about. Who defended last year's defense?

Obviously anyone who puts all the blame on any one player

 

[Whyjerry]

Is there a GM in the league under 80 that would not trade Prescott for Goff in a nanosecond?

 

[TexasHillbilly]

I am not high on him for the fact that Dallas does not use a 2 RB system. Same thing they do with the TE position.

You could have 3 All Pro TE's on the roster and two would sit and only be used to block.

I was thinking more along the lines of "in case of injury". Always nice to have a good backup.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

How well has Dak played in the SB? I'll wait.

And Darnold played great in the NFCCG. They Don't Make the SB without him. Dak"s never come close to that.

 

[Chasing6]

I was thinking more along the lines of "in case of injury". Always nice to have a good backup.

He should be used in a two back system.

 

[DandyDon52]

Ah, yes. Driving seat is a thing of your perspective. For me it is the QB who drives the team on the field. But of course HC, OC and even the GM has influence.

But you are wrong about his OCs. There were a lot more. then only Garrett and MM. And Garrett never was the OC/playcaller during Daks time here.
All of them were cut with reasoning that their gameplan, gamecalls or playbock were to easy and predictable.

before Dak: Callahan (playcalling under Garrett as HC). Just to show that Garrett wasnt a playcaller/OC for a long time here. Even under Romo.

since Dak:
1. Linehan (playcalling under Garrett as HC), was fine and well respect around the league during his Romo time. But suddenly somehow sucked and not able to call complex plays with Dak.
2. Moore (playcalling under Garrett as HC) -> same as with Linehan
3. Mike McCarthy (playcalling by himself) -> SB winning coach with Rodgers, somehow forget how to call plays when paired with Dak and he seemed to also lost his complex playbook he wrote and used during his GB times. How else do you explain that he wasnt able to call complex plays when he was in Dallas ?
4. Brian Schottenheimer (under MM as HC) -> well McCarthy had to go, why ? Offense wasnt better with Brians calls.
5. Brian Schottenheimer (as OC and HC)


It was not like those OCs werent able to AND havent had way more complex playbooks. The problem is the guy who had to execute the plays. And it was always the same when a new OC came here: First he tried to implement a more complex playbook. Then after weeks of trying he saw with this guy i have to trim it down. Everybody then started to shout about its simplicity. But that had a reason: The guy at QB wasnt able to execute those complex plays.

Again: We got rid of way too many OCs and it was always the same process during every ones stint with us. That points more to an underlying problem and not one associated with those OCs. And the problem is the QB we are sporting. He is flat out bad. You are so limited with him and what you can let him do.

OK I agree linehan was good in 2014 with romo, and in 2016 if he was still there, they had to dumb it down for dak as he was a rookie. And they could lean on the run game, as elliot was good that first year.
But I dont know for a fact they have had to dumb it down for dak for 10 years lol.

OC's have systems and plays they like and often times force it on the players.
MM I dont know if he dumbed it down for dak, or himself. but at times it was pretty stupid.
Look at the last play of both the SF games , and they were dumb and had nothing to do with dak.
Well I guess the one time where clock ran out, dak ran too far, which was dumb or lack of awareness.

I think this year will prove if dak is capable qb or not.

 

[TwentyOne]

OK I agree linehan was good in 2014 with romo, and in 2016 if he was still there, they had to dumb it down for dak as he was a rookie. And they could lean on the run game, as elliot was good that first year.
But I dont know for a fact they have had to dumb it down for dak for 10 years lol.

OC's have systems and plays they like and often times force it on the players.
MM I dont know if he dumbed it down for dak, or himself. but at times it was pretty stupid.
Look at the last play of both the SF games , and they were dumb and had nothing to do with dak.
Well I guess the one time where clock ran out, dak ran too far, which was dumb or lack of awareness.

I think this year will prove if dak is capable qb or not.

Well i have to answer your last sentence before i come back to the rest of your post:

After 10 years in the NFL you still give Dak the benefit of the doubt? And his 11th year will show us if he is capable? Why not his 12th? Why is the 11th year so much more worth in your final review of him than those other 10 years?

And btw now he has to play under the by far worst OC in his career. You think that is the right year to judge him?

Where does this patience and understanding you show for him come from? I do think its missplaced.



Ok now on to the rest of your post:

Well of course nobody knows a 100% if they had to trim it down. What i tried to show is that if you followed it throuought his career a lot points towards it. And to me its so obvious that i for myself do believe its the case.

Its not that Dak is not able to do certain things. But he is not on a level where it is good enough for an OC to make a certain playcall. And with level i mean (as an example i used "reads" but it is also true for throws etc..):

For a certain play the playcaller wants to call he needs his QB to be 90% right when he makes the needed reads. Dak is able to make those reads but he his only able to be right in 30% of the time. That is not enough for a playcaller to call that play. A playcaller wont use a play if he knows the outcome will be negaitve with a 70% probability. He will wipe it from the playbook for Dak.

Here are some examples/plays that disapeares during Daks stint with us:

- backshoulder fade. Dak cant do it. He is not accurate enough. Where Romo and Dez made a living from that play someone could argue Dak and his inability was the final nail in Dez' coffin.

- QB option: I followed that sepcific play his whole career. Especially because people critiszed our playcallers to not use it enough because Dak is such a great runner. Well no he isnt. And that stopped using that play way before his serious leg injury. Well, why? Because in 60% of the time Dak made the wrong read. The guy is not able to read the DE and MLB properly. So with so many wrong decissions they had to cancle that play.

- shorter crossing routes, combacks inside: he cant hit the WR in stride. always late. Always in the back.

He can hit the shallow cross tough, TE up the middle seam and the 25 to 30 yards deep fly route outside. Everything that streches in a movement forward away from him in a straight line. But then too long he gets inaccurate. To strong angles he is done. Moving targets from side to sideline he is not able to hit.

Well and then he is very bad using his pocket. 14 years playing QB and he still hasnt developed a feel for OL play.


Well enough talking and examples. What is the most importsant thing and the biggest critique i have is the guy is not able to read defenses. Not pre snap and it gets so much more worse after the snap.

Thats why most plays he looks good at are one read plays. One target he has and he has to read one certain player. Depending on his movement post snap he makes the throw or he decides to hold the ball. But then it gets ugly to watch.

Against most bad defenses (with a good OC) that is enough to move the ball. Against defenses that are better, use for instance zone disguises you cant take that playcalling approach. In those cases the guy is completely lost.

And thats why he is so bad against the better defenses of this league.

 

[Vtwin]

Well i have to answer your last sentence before i come back to the rest of your post:

After 10 years in the NFL you still give Dak the benefit of the doubt? And his 11th year will show us if he is capable? Why not his 12th? Why is the 11th year so much more worth in your final review of him than those other 10 years?

And btw now he has to play under the by far worst OC in his career. You think that is the right year to judge him?

Where does this patience and understanding you show for him come from? I do think its missplaced.



Ok now on to the rest of your post:

Well of course nobody knows a 100% if they had to trim it down. What i tried to show is that if you followed it throuought his career a lot points towards it. And to me its so obvious that i for myself do believe its the case.

Its not that Dak is not able to do certain things. But he is not on a level where it is good enough for an OC to make a certain playcall. And with level i mean (as an example i used "reads" but it is also true for throws etc..):

For a certain play the playcaller wants to call he needs his QB to be 90% right when he makes the needed reads. Dak is able to make those reads but he his only able to be right in 30% of the time. That is not enough for a playcaller to call that play. A playcaller wont use a play if he knows the outcome will be negaitve with a 70% probability. He will wipe it from the playbook for Dak.

Here are some examples/plays that disapeares during Daks stint with us:

- backshoulder fade. Dak cant do it. He is not accurate enough. Where Romo and Dez made a living from that play someone could argue Dak and his inability was the final nail in Dez' coffin.

- QB option: I followed that sepcific play his whole career. Especially because people critiszed our playcallers to not use it enough because Dak is such a great runner. Well no he isnt. And that stopped using that play way before his serious leg injury. Well, why? Because in 60% of the time Dak made the wrong read. The guy is not able to read the DE and MLB properly. So with so many wrong decissions they had to cancle that play.

- shorter crossing routes, combacks inside: he cant hit the WR in stride. always late. Always in the back.

He can hit the shallow cross tough, TE up the middle seam and the 25 to 30 yards deep fly route outside. Everything that streches in a movement forward away from him in a straight line. But then too long he gets inaccurate. To strong angles he is done. Moving targets from side to sideline he is not able to hit.

Well and then he is very bad using his pocket. 14 years playing QB and he still hasnt developed a feel for OL play.


Well enough talking and examples. What is the most importsant thing and the biggest critique i have is the guy is not able to read defenses. Not pre snap and it gets so much more worse after the snap.

Thats why most plays he looks good at are one read plays. One target he has and he has to read one certain player. Depending on his movement post snap he makes the throw or he decides to hold the ball. But then it gets ugly to watch.

Against most bad defenses (with a good OC) that is enough to move the ball. Against defenses that are better, use for instance zone disguises you cant take that playcalling approach. In those cases the guy is completely lost.

And thats why he is so bad against the better defenses of this league.

It would be darn hard to lay it out any better than this.

 

[TwentyOne]

It would be darn hard to lay it out any better than this.

Thank you.