17 games?
You believe Dak earned his 60m$ for Arizona? SF? Buffalo? It wasn’t just a half of football. It was some of the biggest games, the same stuff every year. And the only reason he looked better the second half was GB was running the clock out with prevent. And even then it was really only the 4th quarter. Weren’t they laying it on more in the 3rd quarter and Dak had little response?
Whats with the pedantry? “He’s not a year younger, he’s a year and a half younger”. “It wasn’t a full game, it was 2.5-3 quarters of a game of bad play.” That doesn’t further prove either argument.
The "pedantry" as you put it is using the most basic of math rules that you once again dishonestly argue (unless you think there are 8 months in a year which is a bigger concern). I think it was in preschool but at the very least in elementary school you are taught basic rounding rules which if you are given the number 1.66 and told to round it (hint that is a fairly precise difference in their ages at the time in question) you are taught to round to 2. no one says "that is basically 1" unless they are arguing dishonestly.
I believe, and so does the entire NFL, that over 17 games Dak was found to be the 2nd best QB in football. If you think there was a QB, other than Lamar, who had a better year I will wait. If you think there is a QB who had 17 great games I will say you did not watch them. Then again based on how you are describing the 3rd quarter of the Green Bay I am not sure you watched it either so I will give a brief recap of the first 3 quarters because you seem to have forgotten them (I kinda envy you to be honest). After Green Bay got up 27-0 (kinda similar to how Chargers got up 28-0 on Jacksonville after 4 INTs from Lawrence) Cowboys got a TD before half to make it 27-7 and get the ball first so not a great situation but workable if the defense can hold up. Cowboys get the ball and get a FG making it 27-10 and the defense gives up a meaty TD drive. Cowboys get the ball again and score a TD. Packers get the ball back and get another TD . Cowboys had turnover at the 41 and the Packers respond with their 3rd TD (but that Packers TD takes us into the 4th). So in the 3rd quarter the offense had 9 points. Dak had almost 100 yards passing (think it was 95 but I was trying to mental math it based on the play by play numbers so do not hold me to that).
Yes they were chaining TDs in the 4th but 9 points in a quarter is a very good quarter (10 if they make PAT). The fact that the defense was surrendering TD drives in a way that is historically bad does not make it the standard. To score 6 TDs in 7 drives is not really something you can expect to match. I cant find an example of a team winning after giving up 6 TDs in 7 drives. Again every single QB in the playoffs had a bad half. The ones that won the games were the ones whose defense was able to hold up when the offense started turning it around. The defenses that failed that test lost the games.
