Dude was running for his life several times and forced to make the play. Defenses didn’t have to focus as much on the RB and forced Dak to be a pure passer which as article says, only for tier one. Not a Dak homer but I am being fair about the assessment. I thought he grew up a bit last year under Coach Mac’s guidance as the OC. Just like the article says, had some great games carrying the team but also some flops, and a hole or two in his game. My example would be you take Tyreek Hill out of KC, and Mahomes STILL wins. You take CeeDee out of Dallas, and Dak will probably struggle to win often.
No, he was bailing pocket early because he was coached to if his early reads aren’t there. And once again, after changed at the bye and playing some bad teams, the offense struggled and Dak was back to throwing picks. Even the Lions game, like 40% of his passing yards game in that busted play by the Lions LB who had free rein to Dak and the DB just letting up on Lamb.
It was a dumbed form offense that you are absolutely right, if Lamb wasn’t there would struggle, in fact, we saw what happened when teams were able to take Lamb out the equation, like the Packers, Bills and 49ers. The team didn’t just lose, it gets annihilated. He’s slow processing the field.
And again, like what would are his defenders living in? Dak literally had Lamb, Amari and Gallup when he wasn’t injured, and Zeke and Pollard, with Martin and Smith among others. The guy STRUGGLED consistently and sucked against zone defenses, because he can’t dissect a defense. It’s not about the amount of players, it’s because the QB had tunnel vision. The guy didn’t even make the playoffs in 2019.
You are literally not going to get the stars align like this in the NFl except rarely for any QB.