I’m not trying to bash Prescott. He has his strengths . And obviously enough to build around .
But what receivers except for 1st round picks has he actually elevated their game. Maybe Gallup for a 3rd round pick.
Great passing QB’s generally elevate everyone around them.
I think "elevating their game" is an overrated thought. It's a product of more than the QB. For example, you could say that Dak elevated Beasley's game. Beas had his third-best receptions of his career and second-best yardage of his career during Dak's rookie year after just putting up third receiver numbers at best his first four years.
However, if you look beyond the numbers, Beasley was a main part of our offensive attack as we used him to work over underneath coverage while using Dez and Williams to draw off coverage. Without Dez in particular, the strategy would not have worked. In fact, it stopped working well when teams figured out that Dez wasn't as big of a threat as he used to be.
Laurent Robinson often gets brought up for Romo as a receiver Romo elevated. But part of it was we had Miles Austin coming off his second consecutive Pro Bowl and Bryant, who had 93 catches that year. Austin did miss six games, but Robinson wasn't considered a top threat on a team that also had Witten getting nearly 80 receptions and 1,000 yards. Being on that Cowboys team elevated his game. Romo was a part of that, but wasn't the only reason.
It would have been hard to elevate any receiver's game on last year's team when you're putting Lamb out there with the likes of Noah Brown and a gimpy Gallup.
And I say that as someone who loves me some Romo.
