Right now he’s not playing well at all, but there are variables outside of Dak that are contributing to his poor play. The OL sucks. The RB room sucks. The WR corp is pedestrian outside of CeeDee and all of these deficiencies are further exacerbated by an awful defensive start to the season rooted primarily in what may be the worst DL in the league right now with the current injuries. Even healthy they weren’t playing great by any means. Dak is not an elite QB, so he’s not going to come close to overcoming all of these holes. In fact I’m not sure prime Brady, Manning, Brees, Rodgers, or Mahomes could overcome them, though they’d close the gap significantly more than Dak, obviously.
I didn’t want to resign Dak for $60 million. The moment negotiations started revolving around that number, we should have let him walk. He’s not worth it and we don’t have the FO needed to creatively assemble a talented roster a QB like Dak needs with that kind of contract weighing down the cap. I was also hoping we would let him walk because maybe that would have possibly been a prompt for the eventual bursting of this hyper-inflated market bubble for QBs in the league right now, though Dak likely gets his $60 million from some team no matter what.
What I’m saying is that he’s not garbage. He’s a competent NFL starting QB that can win a SB if surrounded with talent. We saw Jalen Hurts come within an inch of winning a SB on that talented Eagles team and I don’t think he’s anywhere near elite, either. The same could happen with Dak imo.