Dak was largely fine yesterday. He had a bad stretch, but that was a stretch where we had penalties, dropped balls, bad calls, missed blocks and overall just played poorly, everyone. The main issue offensively yesterday were two things -- mental mistakes (all the aforementioned) and we couldn't run the ball for shit. Dak was our leading rusher with 20 yards. That's a huge issue. We only ran 57 plays to their 72, so the defense allowing the Cards to go 50% on 3/4th downs combined was a huge issue. We couldn't get off the field on defense and they could...... why?
First half we had 4 possessions. 4 fucking possessions, that's terrible. We missed a FG, scored a TD and punted twice. On the two punts, we had 3 and 11 and 3 and 14 because of penalties. 2nd half we only had 5 possessions. This isn't a recipe for success for this team. We scored 2 TDs, fumbled and punted twice. 2 punts? 3 and 20 and 3rd and 9. 3 times we had penalties on 2/3rd down putting us way behind the sticks and leading to a punt. One possession we had a dropped ball which would have put us at 3 and 3.
Was Dak perfect? Of course not. Could he and do we need him to be better? Yes, but he wasn't the overwhelming issue. He wasn't even top 5.
Again, we are having a difficult time in the run game because both of our RBs are playing on one leg. We have shit for edge blocking with our TEs and we fucked around with the OL chemistry. I expect Tryon to be better as he gets more reps. This will help, but not getting someone better than Corey Clement when we knew both RBs were going to be limping for the rest of the season was lazy, stupid, and moronic. Pretty much Jerrah on brand.