Mamba42 wrote:QB_Eagles wrote:Mamba42 wrote:I think Stafford is being severely overrated. He's a good QB who has always had a penchant for turning the ball over.
He has thrown for 30 TDs three times in his career. Dak has done it twice in a career that is half as long.
Dak's best season: 4,500 yards, 37 touchdowns, 11 interceptions and a 104.2 rating.
Staffords best season: 4,800 yards, 41 touchdowns, 17 interceptions and a 102.9 rating.
Dak and Stafford are absolutely on the same level as each other, Stafford just happened to get traded to a stacked Rams team that had already been to the Super Bowl a couple of seasons prior with Jared Goff and won a Super Bowl with them.
I also don't get this argument that Stafford played with no talent around him. Are we going to ignore that fact that he played with arguably a top 3 WR of all time in Calvin Johnson? Dak has had good talent around him, especially when he came in as a rookie but he has also had seasons where the team inexplicably decided his best WR should be Allen Hurns.
This isn't overhyping Dak either, he is who he is at this point. But it is to say that Stafford is getting way too much love when in reality he is in the same tier as Dak, Cousins, Carr, Rivers, Ryan, etc.
Why are we comparing single seasons? We might just compare single moments. Here's a legendary one for Stafford:
Well it's each of their best season because Stafford's career is twice as long as Dak's. So we can't compare overall numbers.
But that fake spike moment is pretty good. I will take Romo beating Stafford in the playoffs personally...
Stafford has had that season twice though? And also to do it for as long as he has and culminate in winning a Super Bowl is just not something dak has done
If dak pulls out a Super Bowl and plays well for 4-6 more years he can be in the same category as stafford
Until then though he’s cousins. Stafford has the stats and the ring. Did it with less and did it with more
There’s nothing wrong with dak being cousins. Dak and cousins have substantially outperformed their draft position. They’re wins as far as I’m concerned in the draft. Can’t ask for much more from a 4th round QB than dak or
Cousins
But neither are stafford, and neither have proven to be more than above average sometimes good starters hell sometimes really good.