What's in "the book" on Dak?

[Trouty]

I think they don't teach reading comprehension at Princeton

Low-key shade, Visionary! I chuckled

 

[Silver Surfer]

Although I think Tim should be better, there's a chance the reporter he most ends up like is Mickey Spagnola.

 

[JBond]

The book on Dak : Dak has a below average NFL arm and must be able to utilize the middle of the field so obviously you want to try to force him to throw to the sidelines especially to his left. This is the book on Dak. Having said this taking away the middle of the field will be tough that's a lot of green to cover. I expect Dak will have a good year his yards and passing TDs should come up but his INTs will most likely double. Giants most likely win the NFC this year our defense and pass rush will struggle going from one of the easiest schedules last year to one of the tuffest this year.

Not sure about your arm strength comment. Romo had a noodle arm the couple of years. It took forever for the ball to arrive to wide open receivers. Go back and watch the video of Dak's Td's. Not only did he drill it into very tight windows, he was also better at throwing receivers open. Most of his deep passes were also very accurate, and I expect we will see more deep stuff this year as teams gang up to stop Zeke.

 

[DFWJC]

Not sure about your arm strength comment. Romo had a noodle arm the couple of years. It took forever for the ball to arrive to wide open receivers. Go back and watch the video of Dak's Td's. Not only did he drill it into very tight windows, he was also better at throwing receivers open. Most of his deep passes were also very accurate, and I expect we will see more deep stuff this year as teams gang up to stop Zeke.

Tony Romo had a noodle arm?
He didnt have a cannon by any means, but noodle arm?
Come on

 

[Cowboysfan917]

I'm one of the few who sees this comparison. Dak may have had more yards than Smith last year but Dak also had a better offensive line and running game than Smith.

This is actually the comparison to Dak that I always make. One of my best friends is a diehard Chiefs fan and he's made the comparison to me before too.

I obviously want to see what Dak does this season but if last season proves to be his style, he is Alex Smith. Protect the ball, short and quick passes, pull down and run...but not a make something happen guy like Romo, Favre, Rodgers, Luck, etc.

He protects the ball but can't necessarily open it up and take over a game. I think you can win with that guy when the team is constructed this way... but I think that guy is a system guy.
This is how Landry wanted Staubach to be but Roger was too much of a gunslinger to fit that mold.

We will see... but since last year is all we have to go off right now, this is a fair comparison.

 

[Cowboysfan917]

Tony Romo had a noodle arm?
He didnt have a cannon by any means, but noodle arm?
Come on

It's funny how people try to justify something new by tweaking history. Romo didn't have Favre's arm but he had an NFL caliber arm and definitely made some cannon throws.

 

[erod]

Not sure about your arm strength comment. Romo had a noodle arm the couple of years. It took forever for the ball to arrive to wide open receivers. Go back and watch the video of Dak's Td's. Not only did he drill it into very tight windows, he was also better at throwing receivers open. Most of his deep passes were also very accurate, and I expect we will see more deep stuff this year as teams gang up to stop Zeke.

Wrong.

 

[GORICO]

Dont think Dak has below "average NFL arm"..He has above "average NFL arm" but not elite...we have heard NFL wants Dak to throw from pocket and not
scramble first...but when our O lIne Jels...we can run up the middle which will bring D off the edges so we can then scramble outside more....our offense is
good enough that defenses must pick their poison..Dak will be good enough that our offense wont be stopped except by New York Giants...so i hope we can decipher
Giants D and become unstoppable

 

[DFWJC]

I'm one of the few who sees this comparison. Dak may have had more yards than Smith last year but Dak also had a better offensive line and running game than Smith.

This is actually the comparison to Dak that I always make. One of my best friends is a diehard Chiefs fan and he's made the comparison to me before too.

I obviously want to see what Dak does this season but if last season proves to be his style, he is Alex Smith. Protect the ball, short and quick passes, pull down and run...but not a make something happen guy like Romo, Favre, Rodgers, Luck, etc.

He protects the ball but can't necessarily open it up and take over a game. I think you can win with that guy when the team is constructed this way... but I think that guy is a system guy.
This is how Landry wanted Staubach to be but Roger was too much of a gunslinger to fit that mold.

We will see... but since last year is all we have to go off right now, this is a fair comparison.

I think that comp is used more than any other.

I see Dak with a much higher ceiling though.

Guess we'll find out in time

 

[Gator88]

I think that comp is used more than any other.

I see Dak with a much higher ceiling though.

Guess we'll find out in time

I don't see the issue with it. Obviously if Dak continues to improve, his ceiling will be much higher than Smith's, but stylistically the comparison makes sense to me.

 

[cowboyblue22]

there is no book on dak this is just stuff the press and other people are coming up with mostly its that they hope he struggles a player improves more in his second year from his first year than any other years

 

[Romotil45]

Dont think Dak has below "average NFL arm"..He has above "average NFL arm" but not elite...we have heard NFL wants Dak to throw from pocket and not
scramble first...but when our O lIne Jels...we can run up the middle which will bring D off the edges so we can then scramble outside more....our offense is
good enough that defenses must pick their poison..Dak will be good enough that our offense wont be stopped except by New York Giants...so i hope we can decipher
Giants D and become unstoppable

There are 32 starting QBs do you think Dak velocity is more than these guys ? I think all these guys have more velocity.

Rogers, Brady, Big Ben, Ryan, Carr, Winston ( huge arm) , Bortles ( big arm poor accuracy ) Palmer, Mariota, Stafford, Flacco ( big arm Harbaugh likes to play it conservative) Brees, Dalton.

These are just a few guys I feel have more velocity. Lynch is going to have a big arm but has big wind up similar to Kap. Kap has a big arm but his wind up and release is slow. In my opinion Dak has below average velocity but that doesn't mean he can't be effective in our offense. By below average I mean he's not in the top 16 as far as velocity is concerned. I have him in the bottom 16 when it comes to velocity. No I don't believe he has an elite arm but he may have elite intangibles.

 

[blublood]

We didn't do our homework on that book in the playoffs though. Rodgers schooled our D in OT.

We played Rodgers in the playoff's last year? I must have missed that game.

 

[blublood]

We played Rodgers in the playoff's last year? I must have missed that game.

I meant "OT" believe me I didn't miss the playoff game but that game did not go into OT. Dak did everything he could. As you said Rodgers schooled the "D"

 

[jterrell]

Win up the middle.
Stay home on edges and keep Dak in pocket.
Cover everyone inside out.

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

I hear this all the time it seems. "It will be harder for him to have the sane success because there's film on him now." "There's a book on him now after a year of playing so it's going to be easier to defend him. " I hear those things, or things similar to that, often.

So, what's in the book on Dak? What is in the year of film that benefits defenses?

What is something you feel that defenses coordinators will have zoomed in on? What's the weakness that jumps of the tape?

In my honest opinion, how accurate is the "book" on a rookie QB? The play calling was geared towards a rookie QB which is probably why we see alot of the shorter passing routes. We won't really know if that's the book on Dak until after this year.

 

[Doomsday101]

I hear this all the time it seems. "It will be harder for him to have the sane success because there's film on him now." "There's a book on him now after a year of playing so it's going to be easier to defend him. " I hear those things, or things similar to that, often.

So, what's in the book on Dak? What is in the year of film that benefits defenses?

What is something you feel that defenses coordinators will have zoomed in on? What's the weakness that jumps of the tape?

Have a spy on him, beat the Cowboys OL and have air tight coverage. That is all there is too it. Oh yeah stop Zeke in the process. lol

 

[Romotil45]

Dak does not have an elite arm but this take seems ignorant to me. The only throw to the outside that really requires significant arm strength is the Deep out and he throws those just fine. Further throws into the middle of the field require velocity where they get picked off because of all the traffic in the middle of the field.

I have not seen Dak throw deep outs routinly by far most of his yards last year was on rollouts and screens and delayed crossing patterns over the middle. These make up the vast majority of his passes last year. He just doesn't have the velocity to throw a deep out unless the guy is wide open.

 

[Romotil45]

Has a below average arm but threw a dart 60 yards down field.......

Winston throws darts. Dak does not have that type of velocity in fact I have him ranked in the bottom half of starters in the NFL when it comes to velocity. That being said he can still be very effective with what he has in our offense which has been tailored to his skill set.

 

[DenCWBY]

The only way to take Dak out of the game.