Does anyone remember in 2016, when Zeke was going strong, and Dez was out with injuries. But yet Dak was making throws. Beasley had a career year. Other WR's actually did make some catches too.
Well, Zeke is back, the OL should be even better than 2016, and certainly better than 2017.
Our WR's, though unproven with this team, a few did have some success elsewhere. And oh, the QB's throwing to them. Do you really think they are that much better than Dak?
I think they will be ok. Maybe not what we want them to be. But they won't be a disaster.
They are never gonna be what some are wanting. They could go undefeated and some will still be unhappy.
What sucks about this season Offensively is that our Defense should be what we needed in 2014 or 2016, when our Offense was running strong.
If our running game is as strong as 2016 then we will be ok. Dak isn’t matured enough to change a lot of stuff at the line. He still can’t throw a WR open. And maybe that will never be his strong point. But I refuse to believe he is gonna suck.
In 2016 he came in and was backup. Romo goes down and Dak is thrust into the starting job. He starts and plays 15 games and helped this team win 13 of them. If he played the last game instead of letting butt fumble and friends play he would have helped win 14 games. When Romo went down the HC and OC ran a simplified Offense and Dak had Romo helping him in the film room and practice. He said that Romo was always drawing things up for him to help.
In 2017 the staff gave him more responsibility. You suddenly see him going to the LOS and turning his back and changing plays. The staff wanted him forcing the ball to Dez and that got more apparent as the year went on. Just like Dez said in a recent rant, they been lining up the same way forever. OC or HC changed nothing, they just opened the playbook up more and probly should not have given Dak that much power in his second year. As the year goes on the O-Line gets dinged up. He eventually loses his blindside protection and is replaced with Chaz. Elliot the whole year was either worried about being suspended or just suspended.
First half of the year was perhaps a little above average and the second half the Offense began to get stale and flounder. How many quarters with no TD passes? Dak gets all the blame for it but realistically didn’t deserve all the blame. The staff offered no fixes other than having him try harder to force the ball to Dez and he isn’t the same player he was. Even opposing defenses said they no longer worried about double teaming him every play. They simply stacked the box and double Beez.
This year isn’t just about Dak showing improvement, the OC and HC have to make changes to make this work. If we go out with the same plan and just plug new WR and TE in then defenses will have a easy time of it again and we will struggle. Our Defense will carry us and our run game will be strong. That only gets you so many wins. Dak will show up and should improve.