How does Dak Prescott compare to other great QB’s of this era?

[America's Cowboy]

We don’t know. He looked sharp in his return in Philly. If he’s knocked out then we still had Dak.

It didn’t have to be an All or nothing decision. Put him in in one of those final games and see if he can take a hit.

He looked sharp at Philly? Are you sure? He overthrew by 5 yards an open T-Will along the right sideline with his first pass. Threw his second pass underneath behind RB McFadden, who made a nice reach back grab, stayed on his feet and scrambled for a first down. The other few throws, Tony had excellent protection, not having to run and having the luxury to run a stop-n-go inside the redzone to a wide open T-Will. Easy peasy. All against Philly's backups. I personally would have liked to see him play against them much tougher and aggressive defenses weeks earlier just to settle today's nonsense once and for all. There is a huge reason Romo wasn't allowed to play other than that 1 series in Week 17 at Philly against a backup defense.

 

[Super_Kazuya]

He looked sharp at Philly? Are you sure? He over by 5 yards an open T-Will along the right sideline with his first pass. Threw his second pass underneath behind RB McFadden, who made a nice reach back grab, stayed on his feet and scrambled for a first down. The other few throws, Tony had excellent protection, not having to run and having the luxury to run a stop-n-go inside the redzone to a wide open T-Will. Easy peasy. All against Philly's backups. I personally would have liked to see him play against them much tougher and aggressive defenses weeks earlier just to settle today's nonsense once and for all. There is a huge reason Romo wasn't allowed to play other than that 1 series in Week 17 at Philly against a backup defense.

There was no “huge reason”... stop pretending like you have inside information. He was healthy for 8 weeks, and his injury was a broken bone. Once it healed, it’s healed.
The microscopic knowledge you have on football is embarrassing enough. Stop pretending to be a doctor as well.

 

[JustChip]

We don’t know. He looked sharp in his return in Philly. If he’s knocked out then we still had Dak.

It didn’t have to be an All or nothing decision. Put him in in one of those final games and see if he can take a hit.

If he’s knocked out then it’s over. No arguments.

I was conflicted over going back to Tony when he was healed. Landry would've done it because he didn't believe the starter lost his job by injury. But I'm not convinced Jimmy would've. In theory, it makes sense you could always go back to Dak, but they were truly on a roll with Dak and I don't know that the "magic" would've automatically come back.

 

[Diehardblues]

You can start with Romo's lack of play off performances, because not very many exist.

It’s all in how you want to spin it.

In 21st Century we’ve only been in playoffs 6 times. That’s 30% of our seasons.

4 of those were with Romo which he only started 8 seasons not finishing 3 of them.

 

[America's Cowboy]

There was no “huge reason”... stop pretending like you have inside information. He was healthy for 8 weeks, and his injury was a broken bone. Once it healed, it’s healed.
The microscopic knowledge you have on football is embarrassing enough. Stop pretending to be a doctor as well.

Awww, it hurts...the truth hurts. Doctor says you can have a lollipop so you can feel better. lol

 

[Diehardblues]

I was conflicted over going back to Tony when he was healed. Landry would've done it because he didn't believe the starter lost his job by injury. But I'm not convinced Jimmy would've. In theory, it makes sense you could always go back to Dak, but they were truly on a roll with Dak and I don't know that the "magic" would've automatically come back.

Unfortunately I believe Jerry made the decision based more on the fan and media wave in which he was better off losing with Dak than taking a chance losing with Romo.

Part of that is because we hadn’t had more success with Romo which I also believe if we had the decision would have been easier to go back with Romo,

It illustrates how desperate we are to win that were ready to grasp on to the first sign of glitter similar to what we did with Romo looking for a spark. We thought we might have found another one. 11 game winning streak was awful good evidence.

But IMO this is where we suffer with an owner who also wears the GM hat with a conflict of interest weighing what’s best for public opinion versus what places us in best position to win.

 

[JustChip]

Awww, it hurts...the truth hurts. Doctor says you can have a lollipop so you can feel better. lol

 

[Diehardblues]

He looked sharp at Philly? Are you sure? He overthrew by 5 yards an open T-Will along the right sideline with his first pass. Threw his second pass underneath behind RB McFadden, who made a nice reach back grab, stayed on his feet and scrambled for a first down. The other few throws, Tony had excellent protection, not having to run and having the luxury to run a stop-n-go inside the redzone to a wide open T-Will. Easy peasy. All against Philly's backups. I personally would have liked to see him play against them much tougher and aggressive defenses weeks earlier just to settle today's nonsense once and for all. There is a huge reason Romo wasn't allowed to play other than that 1 series in Week 17 at Philly against a backup defense.

I’d like to have seen if he could take a hit. He’s either cleared to play or he’s not.

I was more sold on Dak until those last few games where some of those greater defenses illustrated some of Daks weaknesses we saw more of last year.

Plus we could have had final closure on Romo which won’t end until Dak has more success.

 

[JW82]

Daks numbers through 2 years. 57TDs to 17ints. +40 LOL are amazing. Last year the whole team was out of sync. He has one playoff game already and played great. He will be easily consodered a top 10 qb by years end. Guaranteed.

 

[Blackrain]

Romo was the best quarterback in Cowboys history. Yes, I said it.

He just suffered from Jerry's idiocy.

By the way, Staubach and Aikman agree with me.

Yes you did and that pretty much confirms why you are so negative about Dak . Still mourning the loss of Romo and trying to grow his legend on the forum . What a hoot!!!

Roger Staubach is an NFL GOD . Tony Romo is like the PI$$ boy in comparison and 5yrs from now the only thing you will ever see about him is the Bobbled snap in a bloopers video . Heck Tony wasn't even as good as White , Dandy Don or Morton who played when you were allowed to kill the QB .

Romos Pullsbury dough boy level of conditioning would have had him out of the league quick back then LOLOL

 

[Blackrain]

Time will tell just like it did with Romo who I also was a critic of at times.

I’m greedy. I think with the handicaps and obstacles our dysfunctionally ran football operations must overcome we need a more Elite QB.

I’m not convinced Jethro and Son can build a good enough team to elevate a lesser than Elite QB.We couldn’t surround Romo with enough. Not sure why we think we will with Dak?

I agree that the most Elite QB we could get would get us further towards a championship but I think his price tag would probably prohibit providing enough talent around him to get all the way there .

I just feel in this salary cap era its hard to buy a team but unlimited funds can be spent on coaching to best use the players we can afford but Jerry wants his hand picked guys so I just am happy if I have some good football to watch and we make the playoffs . I leave my expectations there

 

[HungryLion]

Holy crap are people still arguing over Romo’s benching?

 

[Captain-Crash]

I can't wait until cowboys_bragger and caspers buddy to come on here drunk and start crying about Dak like he did Romo.. you know who you are.. tell us again how great stephen mcgee was.. how how much you "liked" romo...

 

[Blackrain]

Holy crap are people still arguing over Romo’s benching?

No its worse than that they are trying to grow his legend by comparing him to the greatest player to ever play for us . The guy that took us from next years champions to champions .

The guy who could overcome his teams mistakes and lead a Comeback not the gunslinger that had to continually gamble and overcome his own mistakes LOLOL

Comparing Romo to Dak fine but to Roger Staubach please , Staubach's Career is documented on highlight reels at NFL film Romos is tucked way in the back on some Blooper reel.

 

[DFWJC]

Daks numbers through 2 years. 57TDs to 17ints. +40 LOL are amazing. Last year the whole team was out of sync. He has one playoff game already and played great. He will be easily consodered a top 10 qb by years end. Guaranteed.

45 passing TDs and 17 ints is very good!

No need to add the rushing to his passing stats. And if you do, at least be honest and add the fumbles.
Rushing TDs from a QB are great, but are not the same value (from the position) as passing in the NFL. Many would say Zeke could have had those rushing TDs, for example. But we know Zeke couldn't have had the passing tds. They are mostly QB specific.
They deserve mention though, for sure.

I think most of us are hoping Dak gets back to those percentages of TD/int, etc.

Some fear that what they saw the last 8 games of 2017 may not have been an anomaly
6 TDs, 9 ints and a 71 QB rating the last 8 games.

I say he recovers, but I get the worries.

 

[Super_Kazuya]

No its worse than that they are trying to grow his legend by comparing him to the greatest player to ever play for us . The guy that took us from next years champions to champions .

The guy who could overcome his teams mistakes and lead a Comeback not the gunslinger that had to continually gamble and overcome his own mistakes LOLOL

Comparing Romo to Dak fine but to Roger Staubach please , Staubach's Career is documented on highlight reels at NFL film Romos is tucked way in the back on some Blooper reel.

What’s funny though, especially after reading clueless drivel from a troll like this, is that if you go to Roger’s PFR page who was his career deemed most similar to?
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/StauRo00.htm

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Holy crap are people still arguing over Romo’s benching?

Guys won't let it go even though Romo retired lol. It's truly amazing.

 

[Blackrain]

What’s funny though, especially after reading clueless drivel from a troll like this, is that if you go to Roger’s PFR page who was his career deemed most similar to?
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/StauRo00.htm

Similar to who ,Roger could run past the line of scrimmage score rushing TDs . Roger probably had close to the rushing yrds in the playoffs that Tony had in his whole career . Roger moved his team anyway possible.
Tony only wanted to throw and was continually BAITED to do so by good defenses . Romo was predictable Geez he snapped the ball on 0 every play to give the defense an edge LOLOL
Similar, Roger had the lowest body fat in the NFL , Tony was tubby. Each has a signature play that's one similarity except Rogers is the Hail Mary and Tonys is the Bobbled snap LOLOL This just keeps getting better

 

[Gator88]

Dak has carried the team . He and Romo have such dissimilar styles that you cant get past it . It dosent mean Romos style was right or better . He failed miserably many times .

Romo had good teams and failed period they were not all bad teams. Romo was a gunslinger Dak makes ball security a priority . By all means Romo could throw the backshoulder fade but couldn't run past the freaking line of scrimmage Dak can use his legs and make defenses pay . Dak rushes for TDs 2pt conversions . No defense feared Romo doing that because he couldn't run .

Teams baited Romo to throw he ran the clock to 0 so the D could T off on him. Talk about a guy with flaws that he never changed . How about when to give up on a play and throw it away More to the game than the BSF LOL

Dak is in shape stays healthy and available Romo could not do that . Dak can be tackled by NFL players and get up and continue to lead his team Romo couldn't do that .

Dak is young and a winner who will work on his game improve and make us proud . Romo was a gunslinger who made a lot of bad choices that left us frustrated and in the end without a QB because he ran in a meaningless preseason game after just recovering from an injury .

Dak picked up what we thought was a lost season and gave us some great football to watch till he was undone by Garretts coaching . No the following year he could not overcome the loss of Tyron, Lee and Zeke or the fact Dez lost focus , couldn't catch and Garrett was still a poor coach .

This year he may not be the best back shoulder passer but he will move the chains and win games . That's all I ask from a QB.

You couldn't be more wrong if your name was wrongy mcwrongface and you lived on wrong avenue, wrongville, wrong island.

 

[Blackrain]

I don't mind being viewed as Wrong , especially while I watch Dak take us farther than Romo ever did