tyke1doe
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I agree.Well, to be fair, I'm not certain how old Nightman is or if he was a Cowboy Fan, watching the games back when Troy was a Rookie. I mean, if you didn't actually see that team, it's hard to understand just how bad it was. They were terrible. You look at the numbers and you say to yourself, I don't get it. Dak's numbers compare very favorably but what you can't understand, unless you were watching is how much better this team is then that one in 89. Also, just how different the game was. Passing game then was for real. You didn't do the same stuff then as now. You didn't run the same routes and you didn't have the relative freedom to just not worry about getting hit. In those days, WRs just didn't run certain routes and QBs, they got hit on every play and not just pushed to the ground like you see today. They got hit.
It's just different now. I honestly hate comparing players from different eras. It's not fair to the players.
I mentioned Aikman literally got destroyed his rookie year.
But I didn't raise the comparison. Dak supporters are reaching for stats to rationalize that he's good, even digging deep into the past to say Dak is on some level with Aikman.
And they just look at stats, not understanding how to interpret them.
If Dak had to play on that 89 team, he wouldn't have had the rookie year he did in 2016.