Prescott might have a better arm than Romo and he can certainly scramble better than Romo can or could ever.
And that really excited a lot of fans who don't know football well enough.
The reasons Tony Romo is such a good quarterback really evades a lot of minds out there. The first is the pre-read. Romo is a veteran QB, you would think that after the year we had last year, people would have learned to appreciate him more, but they were still ready to write him off at a rookie played well against vanilla defenses that weren't going 100 percent.
Romo is 10th in the league among active players in pass attempts... He knows how to read a defense both before the snap and after. His ability to extend the play differs greatly from Prescott's and we saw that on full display Sunday, where Prescott would extend the play but without greatly positive results. When Romo extends the play, he is still reading the defense. When players get open Romo delivers the ball. It means first downs instead of punting and it means touchdowns instead of field goals.
The recipe to our success in 2014 was the fact that we had an extremely high 3rd down completion percentage and Romo was excellent in the second half.
People are saying Dak was decent for a rookie. That isn't the case. He had a 69.4 quarterback rating, which could have been worse on the high balls he threw that could have been picked off, but worse was the fact that his second quarter QB rating was 52.2...
Dak started struggling in the second quarter, and Garrett in all of his genius started passing the ball more rather than running it. Even when we had the lead in the 4th. Garrett has no experience with a rookie quarterback and it shows. The guy has no idea what he is doing. He thinks he is the smartest guy in the room, but anyone could have told you that Dak should have had 20 or fewer attempts this game instead of 45...
Dak needs time to grow, but Garrett is always going to be this team's Achille's heel, especially without Romo to save his bacon. How he thought it would be appropriate to play his sacred cow in that 3rd preseason game is beyond me.
