I am really trying to understand our QB

TOP is kinda on the QB if we are being honest, better ball placement and catchable velocity helps keep the other offense off the field and less 3 and outs….
 
I'm learning not to take Dak too seriously, as long as his performances are unpredictable. It's easy.

Don't lose any sleep over what you can't change. It's wise to be good to yourself, in the meantime!
 
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I don’t hope Dak fails but I have never come off the point that Dak is consistently inconsistent, and he has an equal ratio of awful, bad, meh, good, and great games. That QB can never win you Super Bowl bc he can’t consistently play well through the playoffs.
 
Understand our quarterback?

This goes far far deeper than the current starting quarterback.

This franchise is sick. This team is broken. The entire concept of what an NFL team is supposed to be about has been twisted.

Dak Prescott has not been the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys for 32 seasons. He is not responsible for this broken record that just repeats itself year after year.

They do not know how to build a team. They do not know how to manage a team. They do not know how to coach a team.

They don't even have a plan and never had one.

This isn't about a player. This is about the insane suggestion that someone with zero NFL experience in coaching or scouting can walk in and build a winning team at any point in the 50 years he might try.

This is simply one more year of proof that out team has been hijacked by a fool.
 
McMicah said:
I don’t hope Dak fails but I have never come off the point that Dak is consistently inconsistent, and he has an equal ratio of awful, bad, meh, good, and great games. That QB can never win you Super Bowl bc he can’t consistently play well through the playoffs.
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PAA...Prescott #1 QBR [23.9] (plays above average)
EPA total...Prescott #1 QBR [45.5] (total expected points added...passing and running)
Pass EPA...Prescott #1 QBR [39.0] (expected points added passing)

Total QBR rank (week 5)...#3 (behind Lamar Jackson and Brock Purdy)...and he's doing this with an 80 yd/gm rushing attack.

Where is last years superbowl winning quarterback (Sam Darnold)?

29th in QBR. Only Justin Herbert is worse right now.
 
Mikexike said:
TOP is kinda on the QB if we are being honest, better ball placement and catchable velocity helps keep the other offense off the field and less 3 and outs….
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Really man? SMH. How about just running the stupid football (preferably behind Guyton and Smith)...controlling the clock and sparing a tired defense that played 3 games in 11 or 12 days.

That 40 yds of rushing to start the fourth quarter is entirely on Schottenheimer's shoddy game planning. It was a tight game until the fourth quarter.
 
Pass to Run
2021 57.77% 42.23% 647 473
2022 51.15% 48.85% 556 531
2023 56.75% 43.25% 614 468
2024 59.76% 40.24% 637 429
2025 57.30% 42.70% 624 465
2026 (Current) 66.00% 34.00%

When a defense changes its looks late, it’s a mental chess match. In that game:
• The Defense Won the Pre-Snap Battle: Tampa Bay showed one look, shifted late, and brought extra rushers.
• The QB Failed to Adjust: Instead of recognizing the blitz and dumping it off quickly to his hot route, Dak forced throws into coverage, leading directly to the turnovers that lost the game.

Todd Bowles completely won the strategic chess match by sending complex, disguised blitz packages. A quarterback in his 11th season is supposed to be a master at reading the field, but instead, he looked completely rattled, lacked answers pre-snap, and panicked when the free rushers got home
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Captain-Crash said:
Pass to Run
2021 57.77% 42.23% 647 473
2022 51.15% 48.85% 556 531
2023 56.75% 43.25% 614 468
2024 59.76% 40.24% 637 429
2025 57.30% 42.70% 624 465
2026 (Current) 66.00% 34.00%

When a defense changes its looks late, it’s a mental chess match. In that game:
• The Defense Won the Pre-Snap Battle: Tampa Bay showed one look, shifted late, and brought extra rushers.
• The QB Failed to Adjust: Instead of recognizing the blitz and dumping it off quickly to his hot route, Dak forced throws into coverage, leading directly to the turnovers that lost the game.

Todd Bowles completely won the strategic chess match by sending complex, disguised blitz packages. A quarterback in his 11th season is supposed to be a master at reading the field, but instead, he looked completely rattled, lacked answers pre-snap, and panicked when the free rushers got home
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Cool post. I like the special touches of blaming turnovers on a the quarterback after the ball hit the receivers in the hand. Probably could have thrown a little better, but all great coaches and receivers say if the ball hits you in your hands, its supposed to be caught.

Part of the receivers and tight ends job description is to catch the ball when it hits you in your hands. Every pass even from the elite quarterbacks in the league aren't always going to be perfect, but the receivers and TEs are paid to catch the ball when it hits them in their hands.

Another thing im not sure you're educated about. Yes the quarterback identifies blitzers, but the center also calls out blitzers and yells out the offensive linemen assignments and adjustments, pre-snap. Every time a blitzer comes free, that doesn't always mean thats the quarterbacks fault. That can be a blown call from the quarterback, the center or just a blown assignment from a TE or running back who missed their blocks.

I know you want to believe that everything that goes wrong is always the quarterbacks fault.... especially in Dallas, but thats not the case.

Ok, lets move on to the whole narrative that Dak is somehow bad against blitzes, and he looked rattled, panicked, etc. Some of that may have been true at times. He's a human being. There's not one quarterback in the NFL who's better or worse than him that haven't had a game or two where they played bad or missed some receivers or get rattled by blitzer that keep beating blocks or coming in free. Bad games happen.

How many picks did Stafford throw just recently? Multiple picks in one game or something like that? He's an elite quarterback. Throwing that many turnovers doesn't exhibit cool and calmness does it? Ok then.

To conclude, I'll just remind you that despite having a bad game vs the Bucs, because these things can happen, lets place your blitz narratives up against Dak's overall performances against the blitz.....

1. Dak is 3rd highest in the NFL amongst all quarterbacks vs the blitz with a 78.3% completion rate.

2. Dak has thrown behind the line of scrimmage (from the pocket) on 39.1% of his blitz attempts. Thats the highest rank in the NFL.

3. Dak ranks 6th highest amongst all quarterbacks vs the blitz during his entire career. Doesn't seem like a quarterback who plays rattled, scared or whatever other narrative that people want to push vs the blitz to me.


Facts>feelings
 
GINeric said:
Cool post. I like the special touches of blaming turnovers on a the quarterback after the ball hit the receivers in the hand. Probably could have thrown a little better, but all great coaches and receivers say if the ball hits you in your hands, its supposed to be caught.

Part of the receivers and tight ends job description is to catch the ball when it hits you in your hands. Every pass even from the elite quarterbacks in the league aren't always going to be perfect, but the receivers and TEs are paid to catch the ball when it hits them in their hands.

Another thing im not sure you're educated about. Yes the quarterback identifies blitzers, but the center also calls out blitzers and yells out the offensive linemen assignments and adjustments, pre-snap. Every time a blitzer comes free, that doesn't always mean thats the quarterbacks fault. That can be a blown call from the quarterback, the center or just a blown assignment from a TE or running back who missed their blocks.

I know you want to believe that everything that goes wrong is always the quarterbacks fault.... especially in Dallas, but thats not the case.

Ok, lets move on to the whole narrative that Dak is somehow bad against blitzes, and he looked rattled, panicked, etc. Some of that may have been true at times. He's a human being. There's not one quarterback in the NFL who's better or worse than him that haven't had a game or two where they played bad or missed some receivers or get rattled by blitzer that keep beating blocks or coming in free. Bad games happen.

How many picks did Stafford throw just recently? Multiple picks in one game or something like that? He's an elite quarterback. Throwing that many turnovers doesn't exhibit cool and calmness does it? Ok then.

To conclude, I'll just remind you that despite having a bad game vs the Bucs, because these things can happen, lets place your blitz narratives up against Dak's overall performances against the blitz.....

1. Dak is 3rd highest in the NFL amongst all quarterbacks vs the blitz with a 78.3% completion rate.

2. Dak has thrown behind the line of scrimmage (from the pocket) on 39.1% of his blitz attempts. Thats the highest rank in the NFL.

3. Dak ranks 6th highest amongst all quarterbacks vs the blitz during his entire career. Doesn't seem like a quarterback who plays rattled, scared or whatever other narrative that people want to push vs the blitz to me.


Facts>feelings
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Those NFL Pro stats are completely accurate, but they actually highlight the exact issue we’ve been talking about.
The stat showing Dak throws behind the line of scrimmage on 39.1% of blitz attempts—the highest rate in the NFL—explains why his completion percentage looks so high at 78.3%. When a defense blitzes, Dak's default answer is immediately dumping a screen pass to a running back or tight end behind the line of scrimmage. It inflates his regular-season completion numbers, but it completely stalls out the offense against elite playoff schemes because the team doesn't have a dominant, downhill running game to push the ball past those short screens.
You're also totally right that receivers have to catch the ball when it hits their hands, and the center handles a lot of pre-snap protection calls. Football is a team sport, and nobody expects any quarterback to be perfect every week. Bad games happen to everyone, including Matthew Stafford.
But the difference is that when the game plan breaks down, and the infrastructure isn't perfect, elite quarterbacks find ways to win deep in January. If the baseline expectation is that everything—from the play-calling to the wide receivers to the protection adjustments—has to be completely flawless for the offense to move the ball in the postseason, then the contract structure makes it very difficult to win a championship
 
Acceptablename said:
I don't understand NFL money. There many over compensated QBs. Dak is damn good QB who has bad games maybe too frequently
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Let me help you. The more you pay them the less you are able to put around them. So if a QB is paid at the top of the market, he needs to play w/ consistency and be a multiple read QB who dissects D's. The more you pay a QB the less help he should need.

Is that making more sense?
 
kramskoi said:
Really man? SMH. How about just running the stupid football (preferably behind Guyton and Smith)...controlling the clock and sparing a tired defense that played 3 games in 11 or 12 days.

That 40 yds of rushing to start the fourth quarter is entirely on Schottenheimer's shoddy game planning. It was a tight game until the fourth quarter.
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To add, it is also on Dak's audibles. QB's have a few selected plays to run every down. I think I've heard 3 is the number. So, what you have are DC's who know this and give Dak looks so he will audible to a pass. Dak does so a lot from what I understand, and this makes playing D very easy, as the DLine doesn't have to worry about setting the edge, they can just "pin back their ears and go." No hesitation necessary. That's why you see way too often the entire DLine collapsing on Dak. They know he'll pass most of the time, so they plan accordingly.

When we do shock the other team and start running the ball a lot, we win more. The other team is deathly afraid of our running game. So, they use countermeasures to make sure we stay away from it.

All too often we drive down the field running the ball, and then inexplicably go passpasspass in the red zone. That's what lost us the game vs TB.
 
plasticman said:
Understand our quarterback?

This goes far far deeper than the current starting quarterback.

This franchise is sick. This team is broken. The entire concept of what an NFL team is supposed to be about has been twisted.

Dak Prescott has not been the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys for 32 seasons. He is not responsible for this broken record that just repeats itself year after year.

They do not know how to build a team. They do not know how to manage a team. They do not know how to coach a team.

They don't even have a plan and never had one.

This isn't about a player. This is about the insane suggestion that someone with zero NFL experience in coaching or scouting can walk in and build a winning team at any point in the 50 years he might try.

This is simply one more year of proof that out team has been hijacked by a fool.
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Very nicely done.

It would indeed take a huge accident for us to even sniff a super bowl. Our team is not built for playoff success, Jerry doesn't even understand what that is.
 
Captain-Crash said:
Those NFL Pro stats are completely accurate, but they actually highlight the exact issue we’ve been talking about.
The stat showing Dak throws behind the line of scrimmage on 39.1% of blitz attempts—the highest rate in the NFL—explains why his completion percentage looks so high at 78.3%. When a defense blitzes, Dak's default answer is immediately dumping a screen pass to a running back or tight end behind the line of scrimmage. It inflates his regular-season completion numbers, but it completely stalls out the offense against elite playoff schemes because the team doesn't have a dominant, downhill running game to push the ball past those short screens.
You're also totally right that receivers have to catch the ball when it hits their hands, and the center handles a lot of pre-snap protection calls. Football is a team sport, and nobody expects any quarterback to be perfect every week. Bad games happen to everyone, including Matthew Stafford.
But the difference is that when the game plan breaks down, and the infrastructure isn't perfect, elite quarterbacks find ways to win deep in January. If the baseline expectation is that everything—from the play-calling to the wide receivers to the protection adjustments—has to be completely flawless for the offense to move the ball in the postseason, then the contract structure makes it very difficult to win a championship
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Great post. With all of that said, all of Dak's blitz breaking passes aren't just screens. Again, he's been one of the best blitz beating quarterbacks in the league his whole career with passes all around the route tree.
 
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Not really that difficult to understand him. He's arrogant, he's over confident, he's not the leader that everyone keeps saying that he is, and he got gift wrapped the Cowboys starting job back in 2016 due to a couple of injuries and he's never had to compete for it since. He knows that due to his contract and the idiocy of our owner/general manager that he's untouchable no matter what happens on the field

Once you understand those basic truths about him everything else kind of falls into place
 
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