If Dak is indeed average then Dallas finishes 2019 with a draft pick somewhere in the middle to latter part of the first round. Which QB are you going to draft there to be better than average?
On the flip side, it seems no QB is worth a ton of money because teams can't add other parts. Without actually looking, I think Peyton Manning's corpse was the last high-priced QB to win a super bowl and I have to say a more modestly priced QB could have accomplished the same.
You would most likely hafta package picks to be in the running forTua,Fromm or Herbert.
The defense of said Broncos team was a most dominant unit that year and whose free agent purchases like Ware, Talib and Gipson (paired with Miller of course) were the driving force behind that trophy.
Hard to assemble and moreso maintain those types of defensive units in this salary cap era.
But my point is the current version of the Dallas Cowboys defense in no shape or form resembles the Denver defense we've mentioned here nor previous models that carried average quarterbacks to a Lombardi.
If missing one elite piece offensively, the current QB does not possess enough natural talent to compensate. And while the defense, as a whole, carried the team through several wins last year, the loss of Gregory, lack of runstuffing DT, Free Safety and Lawrence's situation will continue to prevent long term success.
The current QB needs an All Star cast on both sides of the ball in order to sniff a championship.