Good press for Dak

[Bulldogg31]

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/quarterback-stat-leaders-for-2015/

 

[57stratdawg]

I don't think Prescott is going to come close to 1,000 rush yards this year.

4000 passing, 600 rushing.

 

[patdog]

I don't know why you would think that. He ran for 986 yards last year. He may push 4,000 passing yards, but it won't be because he runs it that much less. Look at how Mullen used Tim Tebow. And he had Percy Harvin and Aaron Hernandez to throw to.

 

[121Josey]

I don't know why you would think that. He ran for 986 yards last year. He may push 4,000 passing yards, but it won't be because he runs it that much less. Look at how Mullen used Tim Tebow. And he had Percy Harvin and Aaron Hernandez to throw to.

Dak won't get close to 1K. Dak has to run when State can't count on their RB's to get yards between the tackles. I think that we will see more Manziel type runs than 3rd-n-Dak.

Look at how Mullen used Tebow. Now image Tebow as a polished passer. You have Dak. Dan won 2 NC's when Tebow did less.

 

[HD6]

One of those, Tebow wasn't the starter.

 

[121Josey]

One of those, Tebow wasn't the starter.

Are you implying that we shouldn't start Dak?**

 

[patdog]

You may be right. But if you are, Mullen will be going against everything he's done his entire career. When he's got a big strong QB, he runs him a LOT. That's just in his DNA and it's not going to change. Even in Tebow's JR season when they won the national title with him doing less, he still ran the ball 176 times. That's not much less than the 210 carries Dak had last year.

 

[DancingRabbit]

I think his number of carries may be reduced slightly, but the threat has

has to be there for our offense to click.

Wouldn't surprise me for his rush yards to drop back to somewhere in the 800s.

 

[121Josey]

The question is if Dan can take his finger off the Dak-trigger. You say he can't. I say he can. But the game will determine how many times Dan calls Dak's number. If Dak is carrying 20+ times a game, then it's going to be a long season. There's enough weapons that Dan doesn't have to call QB-Dive every series, but I agree that Dan isn't going to stop calling the read-option.

I expect the stats to look more like the second half of 2014 than the first half

2014 Game Log	Passing	Rushing	QBR
DATE	OPP	RESULT	CMP	ATT	YDS	CMP%	LNG	TD	INT	RAT	ATT	YDS	AVG	LNG	TD	RAW QBR	ADJ QBR
8/30	Southern Mississippi	W 49-0	18	26	284	69.2	35	4	1	204.1	8	23	2.9	15	0	59.7	36.2
9/6	UAB	W 47-34	12	25	211	48.0	68	4	1	163.7	18	111	6.2	17	1	86.6	84.2
9/13	@South Alabama	W 35-3	13	21	201	61.9	39	1	0	158.0	14	139	9.9	40	1	94.5	91.7
9/20	@LSU	W 34-29	15	24	268	62.5	74	2	0	183.8	22	105	4.8	56	1	78.3	90.6
10/4	Texas A&M	W 48-31	20	26	268	76.9	51	2	0	188.9	23	77	3.3	13	3	87.3	87.8
10/11	Auburn	W 38-23	18	34	246	52.9	34	1	2	111.7	21	121	5.8	26	2	62.1	74.6
10/25	@Kentucky	W 45-31	18	33	216	54.5	36	1	1	113.5	18	88	4.9	38	2	64.1	68.7
11/1	Arkansas	W 17-10	18	27	331	66.7	69	1	2	167.1	13	61	4.7	12	0	68.2	80.1
11/8	Tennessee-Martin	W 45-16	14	23	206	60.9	55	2	0	164.8	6	54	9.0	48	1	94.6	86.2
11/15	@Alabama	L 25-20	27	48	290	56.3	30	2	3	108.3	22	82	3.7	22	0	30.9	49.7
11/22	Vanderbilt	W 51-0	16	21	193	76.2	27	3	0	200.5	6	30	5.0	10	1	91.5	89.7
11/29	@Ole Miss	L 31-17	22	37	282	59.5	53	1	0	132.4	24	48	2.0	14	1	29.0	61.4
CAPITAL ONE ORANGE BOWL
12/31	@Georgia Tech	L 49-34	33	51	453	64.7	42	3	1	154.8	15	47	3.1	15	1	55.9	58.2

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[Bulldogg31]

I think the number of carries Dak gets is literally in his own hands. So many of our play calls are read options, where Dak can either keep it himself or give it to the RB.

Early last year Dak liked to keep it more than handing it off, but by the end of the year he seemed to hand off more.