This is year 5. Last week, the Dak-stans were blaming Schultz and the OL. They were blaming McCarthy for ‘not changing the offense’ that is hindering Dak and his other coaching decisions. If Dak wasn’t sucking, Dak-stans would have no reason to continually make excuses like this. So now Moore called a good game?
Again, offense struggles unless it’s up-tempo and he’s making one-read throws and he’s down by 20, defenses go soft to burn time and there is no pressure on him. Thus, the majority of the burden is on guys like Moore to go hurry up and Zeke and the RG, to keep wearing down the defense. Even the throw to Gallup on that amazing catch, it was a ONE-READ throw on a go-route, with no safety help that Dak was going to from the very beginning and the DB was playing him well.
Last week, he was ‘good’ in the second quarter only, a majority of the yardage came right before the half. You saw it all last year against good defenses that let the Cowboys move the ball when the game was basically over and they don’t make bone-headed decisions like the Falcons do.
Matt Ryan was dropping back on a 5-7 step drop on pretty much every throw he made downfield. Dak would completely scrub in that offense.
Dak had ZERO comebacks last year when down at the half. All his comebacks in 2016 were not comebacks, but bus-driving and not committing TOs, while the Cowboys relied on the RG to wear down defenses by the fourth. Dak is mediocre.
And him running for TDs on wide open lanes is not that impressive, after defenses key in on Zeke and bite. Falcons basically didn’t do what teams generally have been doing on those runs, which was keeping a defender as a spy on Dak to prevent exactly that. No Dak-hater thinks Dak can’t run the read option and play fake well, especially with a guy like Zeke in the back-field. That doesn’t make him a great QB.
Being a great QB is about consistency over the long haul. Every great QB has bad games. Every scrub or mediocre QB has good games, especially with talented rosters.
