The Bus Driver's Last 5 games

[JBS]

Check the red zone though.

Check the record last 5 games

 

[erod]

Check the record last 5 games

You mean that almost 6-quarter stretch the past two games without even scoring a touchdown?

 

[the_h0wey]

5 wins

136 of 181 for 75% completion percentage at 8.1 ypc for 1471 yards at 294.2 yards per game average.

7 Passing Tds and 2 ints.

3 rushing Tds.

106.8 rating.

3 Game Winning Drives.

Sacked 20 times.



Bring your Average, Bus Driver and Tebow comments....and look silly.

It baffles me how people don't understand Dak was put in a terrible position to succeed at the beginning of the year. Witten retires out of nowhere, the front office cut Dez and tried to sell us Allen Hurns as the heir apparent, and his All Pro center is put on IR. Since adding Cooper his game has been drastically improved. Dak is our guy and is going to be going forward. Hop on the bandwagon friends

 

[Tsug]

https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/red-zone-scoring-pct

 

[QuincyCarterEra]

 

[Kaiser]

It baffles me how people don't understand Dak was put in a terrible position to succeed at the beginning of the year. Witten retires out of nowhere, the front office cut Dez and tried to sell us Allen Hurns as the heir apparent, and his All Pro center is put on IR. Since adding Cooper his game has been drastically improved. Dak is our guy and is going to be going forward. Hop on the bandwagon friends

Couldn't agree more. Hurns and TWill have averaged 3 catches per game over the last five years and for the first half, the two combined for 1 catch per game. They totally disappeared and the TE's were a liability.

The OL still has a lot of problems but you add Amari Cooper and suddenly Dak plays well. Whodathunkit?

 

[cmoney23]

That second one is something I've seen a few times from Dak. I think it slipped a bit coming out of his hand.

I don't know if it's his hand size, or the fact that he seems to sweat buckets, or something else, but every now and then a ball comes out really odd.

He used to have this issue on short throws over the middle, they'd sail. I'm not sure, it might be a height thing, trying to get it over the line? I'm not sure, but I agree, he sails balls sometimes. I've never seen it on that long of a pass.

 

[pansophy]

His qbr is destroyed by the fumbles mostly.

Cowherd is an idiot and his take is completely false. He is anything but average. Yes...his numbers suffered most of the season because he had NO weapobs in the passing game. No qb an excell in that environment, i don't care who there running back is.

This is our offensive philosophy built around the running game. Whether we had Zeke or another good running back, that isn't changing.

Just 6 months ago Cowberd was singing Dak's praises...now...showing what he can do with an actual weapon he has made better than he has ever been...it is Dak is average and needs help....lol

Every qb needs help. Every single one of them.

So what you are saying is that if we only look at Dak's positives then he is more than a bus driver. Got it.

 

[Playmaker3128]

Dak has been efficient. Hes adjusted back to the league after a rough first 4 games. It also helps he now has a reliable weapon besides zeke.

I would love to see dak with a better o coordinator as well.

If don’t think that he feel balls are a huge issue as I think the chemistry with gallop def in play. The fumbles he needs to cut back on.

If he eliminated his fumbles during this stretch it could have been even better

 

[natedoug]

He's gotten better, but he has to do a better job protecting the ball. Two bad INT's yesterday and a lost fumble. Those turnovers are the only reason that we didn't blow the Eagles out of the building.

Yeah he's gotta protect the ball. The fumble and the Gallup overthrow can't happen. On the first INT -- the DB just made a play based on his awareness. He came off the TE on the under route and just made a great play

 

[ConceptCoop]

The Philly game inflated his numbers and you didn't mention the fumbles, conveniently.

The haters and lovers are equally annoying!

 

[Vandyr]

I am sure at halftime the trolls were already planning their Dak sucks threads for today. All up with Glee at the horrid first half. All their hating had come true. They were finally proven right. Then Dak happened and their entire world caved in. LOL

Has to be one of the most satisfying wins all around that I can remember. And Dak did it with long bombs, comebacks, clutch play, and without Martin. Amazing.

My buddy, one of the biggest Dak homers i know, was ready to bench him by half time. It wasn't just "trolls" and "haters" that were watching that fiasco.

 

[risco]

These type of cherry picking threads are funny. For 3 Q yesterday Dak played as bad as any QB in the league. That does not get forgiven because he played out of his mind in the 4th. Good for him and good for the team, but if not for the 1st 3 Q, the game would have been a wrap heading into the 4th Q. Now Dak did step it up and did play very well in the 4th and OT, that is great and I am proud of him but he also played like a HS QB the first 3 Q. Just think of what this team could be if Dak was consistent. This team would be Superbowl favorites if 4th Dak played all 4 Q. Until he plays decent all 4 Q, he is nothing more than an average to below average QB.

Wow! You are correct- but it is a 60 minutes game and in this case it was 68 minutes. So my point- should we be looking at the overall collective performance which really matters?

 

[BoysfanfromCanada]

It was kind of dumb comparing 2016 Dak to Tom Brady & it's even dumber to compare post Atlanta game Dak in 2017 to Tebow.

 

[Ken]

This will be a hard one to spin.

 

[Clove]

Yes, I agree, having a "bus driver" means the rest of your team is so good, all you have to do is your job, and not be miraculous every game. I bet most QBs would prefer that, if it produces consistent wins.

And most QBs win the Superbowl when their running game and defense is fairly strong....they win with the best team, not because they were playing out-of-this-world every game.

To win as a QB, the first and foremost thing you need is concentration. You need that to be able to withstand all of the hoopla around you, the distractions around you, the outside noise, the moment (if it's too big or not) the defenses, what's breaking down around you, you have to be able to overcome that type of stuff. And thats' why some of the most talented QBs in history never won a title. It takes all of what I describe, plus arm strength, accuracy, pocket awareness, and all of that. But the ladder part of what I just mentioned isn't going to cut it by itself. And by the way, a bus driver doesn't have 14 come-back wins for the bus driver people out there.

 

[risco]

Well I’m a Dallas Cowboys fan- and a fan of every team member as long as they are on the team. That means I like Dak and everyone else as much as I like the Cowboys collectively very much.

 

[Ken]

So what you are saying is that if we only look at Dak's positives then he is more than a bus driver. Got it.

Or we could just harp on the negatives and paint a picturr that it is impossible to improve.

 

[TheHerd]

He used to have this issue on short throws over the middle, they'd sail. I'm not sure, it might be a height thing, trying to get it over the line? I'm not sure, but I agree, he sails balls sometimes. I've never seen it on that long of a pass.

It not only sailed, it was seriously wobbling. Looked like it slipped out for sure.

 

[pansophy]

Or we could just harp on the negatives and paint a picturr that it is impossible to improve.

Dak improves. IMO he needed to start to throw the ball outside the numbers more so that defenses would pay for clogging the middle of the field like last year. He has steadily done that more as the season progressed even before Amari arrived.

My complaint is threads like this that try to paint him to be a top 5 QB when he so clearly isn't. Many of these threads compare his numbers to the first 3 years of this quarterback or that, but fail to recognize or acknowledge how much easier it is to throw in today's environment compared to when Wilson, or Romo, or whomever else folks to try to compare Dak to so as to paint him as a top tier QB. Never mind that 2 of his 3 years he has had the leading rusher in the league which should even easier. These are just not comparable circumstances.