Straight from Cam Newton's 4th and 1.....
Before the season started and QB evals were being done Dak v. other players, notably this one.
We're comparing Dak to another QB with similar stats over their last 50 starts. That's over 3 years' worth of stats. Remember, this was before the season started. Here we go:
Dak Other QB
W/L 33-17 36-14 practically a wash
Pass TDs 105 105
INTs 38 39
Pass Rtg 101.3 98.9
Yds/Att 7.6 7.5
Comp % 68.4 66.8
Many of you know where this is going, though some may not. The other quarterback's stats are those of Patrick Mahomes.
A QB's legacy is built in the post-season, and I won't argue with that. I will argue that PM had better offenses every year, while we were supposed to have a better defense than KC.
Point the finger wherever you want, but the stats don't lie. Football is a 22 man game, and I'd argue that Dak was doing his job. Like him, don't like him, I don't care. Just remember that there are very few QBs that match up to him that also happen to be available.
Somehow Mahomes has always had a running game. Going into this season, it was obvious that we had problems at the RB position, and that was a killer.
Food for thought as we head into the off-season and begin building our team for next year.
Until next year......
(formatted this right before I posted. It's whack once I hit post)
and he did this without a strong run game the last three years the offensive line inconsistent and Mike McCarthy and that offensive staff not very creative and let's not get started on not having a true #2 target whether it's a top tight end or #2 wide receiver I mean literally people wanna blow smoke up Joe's **** over there in Cincinnati but that dudes had some 3D at wide receiver and some decent tight ends now a better run game at times he may not have a defense over there in Cincinnati but he sure had a dynamic set of skill players to throw to I'm not taking anything away from him but let's be clear you can't have it both ways blame Prescott for everything but then at the same time say we have one of the worst GM's in the nfl???
I agree with you it's a team game I think quarterback's not our problem here and it would be a lot better if we had a run game similar to the 90s or the 70s and you're right that's where I'm going with this I'd rather we use those examples when Troy and Roger never had to carry this team into playoffs because they rolled in with one of the top run games one of the top defenses one of the top coaching Staffs in this league and they could always depend on not having to be perfect and not having expectations that if things went wrong, they gopt blamed..
Don't get me started on the crowd that somehow are blind to mistakes only when it comes to putting down Romo or Prescott but Danny white was not a good quarterback this man was carried by exactly what we're talking about Danny white had one of the worst touchdown interception ratios it was almost even in the regular season and it was upside down in the playoffs meaning he threw more interceptions and made more mistakes than scoring points not scoring touchdowns and somehow they end up what in three straight NFC championship games look like they were competing hard I'm pretty sure Danny white was the problem but nobody's gonna say that because they wanna put down our quarterbacks in a time where they can't depend I'm having help in recent years from their GM and their coaching staff literally some of the most underwhelming rosters to work with because of our GM and because of the schemes and the coaching staff that they chose...
People are going to come in here and try to say well Prescott through some interceptions early in those games , the defense held San Francisco to under 19 points twice!!
no they don't want to go in and tell you that the offensive line had 11 penalties in one game and we didn't get a lot of calls and the defense while it looked like they were playing well in one of those halves they gave up 10 yards per carry and SF owned the time of possessions, basically keeping the Dallas Cowboys offense off the field..
I don't care what the score said people watching that as well as when diggs a sure interception that could have changed the game, and also didn't hit kittles and allow him to catch that bobbling ball..
we can go back into all these games and then also point out they were under 3 yards per carry in both games they were playing behind the chains they were playing one-dimensional ball people weren't getting open but how come you're going to point to these interceptions when a guy like Matthew Stafford can lead the league in interceptions he can throw 2 interceptions in a Super Bowl and still win the damn Super Bowl I can tell you why Aaron Donald and that defense made sure that they got the ball back twice after those mistakes and won the game..
This happens quite often in the NFL when a team steps up even when they're not playing perfectly and someone makes a play somewhere but at the Dallas Cowboys have never recently had any of those plays made those special catches those crazy bounces that you end up getting that break you need it's just never there it's the team that's the problem it's not the quarterback alone you can't play one-dimensional football and expect wins in bigger games.
I mean my Texas Longhorn team found out this year and both Georgia games that that's exactly what happens when you put everything on the quarterback and then you have no run game and your kicker can't make kicks and your defense gives up just enough plays to lose the game even though they played well all game they couldn't hold out and they nearly lost the Arizona State game because of the same stuff it's rare you win a big game against a team that's almost your equal when you're not making any special plays and when you're making the most mistakes and stop blaming the quarterback for this..
