You mean losing games early on in the season and having that one or two wins early on could mean difference from making the playoffs and having a home-field advantage or going home or a wild card spot.
You mean that facing the defending Champs in week 1 on the road will be the game we look back on and say, yep, that's the game we could've and should've won if only dak had some preseason snaps? You say games like preseason snaps will affect how he plays the whole season. If you think a few series will help him shake off the rust, then those same amount of series vs tb week 1 will shake off the rust. If we lose to tb on the road the 1st game of the year it's not season ending. It won't be, or shouldn't be if people use common sense, the game we look back on at the end of the year and think if Dak just would've played some pre-season snaps we would've won that game and made the playoffs or had a higher seeding.