Just another false narrative that Dak is the “reason”. It’s ironic, the wind attributed to Rush and Andy Dalton, who had way worse blocking, were defense, per the Dak homers. Suddenly the defense doesn’t come into play when it’s Dak.
When you have a back-up, you dumb down the offense intentionally. Plus, offense includes defensive scoring off TOs. The scoring with the “Dak-led” has to be adjusted for via the TOs this defense produced that either led to scores or were scores. Rush had 2 games where his defense didn’t produce a single TO, while Dak in the 13 games played only 1.
Rush showed he could put up close to 400 yards in 2021 and find both Cooper and Wilson against the Vikings in this offense. He also showed this year he had better stats and beat the Commanders DL, unlike Dak when their rushing games didn’t put up over 100 yards in both ganes.
It’s not really that difficult to understand that it’s comparing Rush to allegedly an elite QB.