RonnieT24
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Dak is not the first player to have a bad year nor will be the last. The desire to call his down year (which was still good enough to rank in the top half of the league) the standard is intellectually dishonest. As is harping on the interceptions when it has been factually demonstrated time and again that a minimum of 5 of those could not have been thrown any better and the receivers just botched the catch and two others were the result of his being hit on the arm while throwing and another was tipped at the line. Not saying those don't count just as much as plain old bad read/poor throw interceptions on the stat sheet.. but they need to be evaluated differently. I could reasonably argue that 8, which is over half, of Dak's INTs last year had next to nothing to do with him. Even if you want to ding him for "holding the ball too long" on the ones where his arm was hit I would remind you that the one against Houston was a three step drop where the defender who hit his arm came unblocked and was on him in under 2 seconds. The continued emphasis on the raw INT stat without context reeks of agenda.
I'm not saying Dak won't throw any INTs in 2023.. but I am fairly confident he won't throw 15. Especially if he gets a legitimate #2 to pair with CD. Even if that legit #2 is a healthy Michael Gallup. Maybe they bring back T.Y. Hilton.. or Jerry makes his "big move" on a free agent or trade. Or maybe a play making WR falls to them in the draft. You never know. What I do know is that Dak has never thrown a lot of INTs so I am prepared to threat 2022 as an outlier until proven otherwise.
