Yes these stats tell a lot. The other stat of the 5 offensive drives that we had that equaled 53 yards and 2 TO's in the Cleveland game tell me more. I don't disagree with you on your case that Dak is not elite. I disagree with the blanket statement that he's garbage. He is an above average starter with limitations in his game. The pro Dak people want you to believe he is better than what he is and the anti Dak people want you to believe he is worse than what he is. He's an above average QB with flaws.
I personally believe Dak is good but not great. I feel that his play has contributed to the teams poor record. My biggest concern about Dak is our offense has not been able to sustain drives and keep our defense off the field. I feel Dak has become such a polarizing player on this team because of the contract situation. When Dak was on his rookie deal and costing us pretty much nothing against the cap then he was great. We got a great bargain. An above average QB for below average price. Now Dak is playing for 31 million and (allegedly) asking for much more. So now we have an above average QB who is costing elite price, and going to cost more.
Take contract discussion out and just going off what I see as a player. I am worried that this offense can not sustain drives and is turning the ball over. That's how Dak has hurt this team and that's his part in the 1-3 record. He not the only contributor to the 1-3 record but as of today he's the only one without a contract and demanding elite money but not playing elite ball. But he's also not "garbage". There's a lot worse QB's out there.
When I say Dak is garbage, it’s really hyperbole. If your in the NFL, you obviously have some skills, but in respect to others, Dak is mediocre as a STARTER and he’s dog doo-doo when he loses a single-skilled player.
Before the Dak-stand went all out with their insults, I generally said Dak is IDEAL as a QB back-up, one who can come in and win some games to keep a team in play-off contention while the elite QB has time to heal. Dak is hard to bring down and he can throw deep accurately, provided the read is the first one. That makes it somewhat difficult for a defense to adjust in a short time.
And BTW, I will flat out admit I have an agenda, because Romo should have started period, after taking a beating for this franchise with its bum playcaller Garrett who couldn’t adjust to a blitzing team to save his life and garbage FO decisions, when the old-beat up Subaru he was driving, turned into a Lamborghini and the only reason we went with Dak is because of the “record” and most likely because the young roster that surrounded Romo were all about “their buddy”. We wasted a short SB window once they made this decision.
Dak is polarizing because it’s all scapegoating yo defend this mediocrity. Hs stand who hated Romo are now trying to leverage the VALID EXCUSES that were completely obvious for Romo, including Garrett being the play caller with COMPLETE CONTROL over the offense, up to 2012 and 2013, when he kept interfering with Callahan and couldn’t let go of the reigns until Jerry had to completely remove him and give him a role in what Jerry described as “ambiguous”, while saying Garrett deals with ambiguity really well. The Dak-stans leveraged the Garrett excuse, while knowing for a fact Garrett hasn’t touched the offense since 2013 and Jerry didn’t allow it.
I can give you the sources if you want of how different our play calling became with respect to Dak, whether through the incompetent Garrett or even a veteran OC like Linehan from Romo, because I’m often accused multiple times of lying by Dak-stans despite me bringing up these clear evidences when they get their feelings hurt.
The reality is the young Dallas was hyped by their own success, while Linehan had to completely simplify the offense for Dak and all it took was one season for teams to start doubling Beasley and Dak completely crapped the bed. And Jerry had to come out after the 2017 season saying this whole thing was a good learning experience for Dak. This was the same year they refused the EARNED RIGHT of Romo to compete for his starting job back.
now we are stuck with this scrub who talks about ‘respect’ as justification for getting paid 40 plus million, while those that have actually been paying attention know how much the FO tailored to this bum and held his hand. Dak is a hypocrite period..
