Tua has ‘slightly’ outplayed Dak this season – Shannon Sharpe on more impressive QB | First Take

Tua has ‘slightly’ outplayed Dak this season – Shannon Sharpe on more impressive QB | First Take
Shannon Sharpe, Ryan Clark and Bart Scott debate whether Tua Tagovailoa or Dak Prescott has been the more impressive quarterback this season.
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0:00 More impressive this season: Tua or Dak?
3:35 Bart Scott explains why Tua’s been more impressive than Dak this season
5:50 Tua has slightly outplayed Dak this season – Shannon Sharpe
7:40 Tua has a better supporting cast than Dak – Ryan Clark
8:50 Shannon Sharpe on Cowboys’ weaknesses

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Who has been more impressive this season Dak or Tua um Dak has been more impressive right I I I think Dak has been more impressive from the standpoint of what I feel has been heaped on him this season if we remember back in the offseason when Mike

McCarthy said he was going to go away from what Kell Moore did and what Kell Moore wanted to lead with the past he wanted to be a run first team a team that expressed or showed physicality he Li Mike McCarthy lied Mike was just trying to find a way that he was going

To push Kelly Mo out the out the door and that was his way which is fine right if you going to go down you go down being you but Dak Prescott has now become where this offense starts and ends which was why last week it was so

Difficult for them to make a comeback against the Buffalo Bills because they couldn’t match physicality with physicality it’s been CD Lamb’s emergence into the top tier of being a number one wide receiver Jake Ferguson coming along late in this year but when he’s had opportunities to distribute the football whether it’s Michael Galla

Brandon Cooks I feel like Dak Prescott has shown us on his own right without a running game without the play action game being big without Mike McCarthy at least early on in the season using motion to confuse right to out leverage that Dak Prescott has carried this team

Now when we go back to last week that’s not a Dak Prescott you want to play with that’s not a Dak Prescott you can win with but look what happened it was the people around him as well it was not being able to get protection it was not

Being able to run the football it was CD lamb getting clapped clamped by Tyron Johnson in the slot and so if those things happen again this weekend we’re going to truly see what Dak Prescott is and who Dak Prescott can be and can he play himself back into the MVP

Conversation but to me throughout this season the evolution of Dak Prescott into one of those guys you could put the entire offense on his shoulders has been very evident now I was going to say the same and but just to create balance on this show I go ahead and I’ll I’ll plead the

K for T Tong you can’t you can’t say that what you supposed to do for the IM entertainment purposes is just take T now that you have said you want to go Dak and you’re only takeing T to give balance to the show no I’m I’m feeling

The juice right because both you and uh got great shows outside of thepan so I’m trying to learn from y’all on the fly so that’s what I’m talking about baby so thanks for coaching me up coach but I’ll make the case for two a Tong of our l

Before the game before the season started we was talking about Tua tangoa he was taking jiujitsu you know 30 plus or 20 plus in the karate class we trying to figure out what the hell he was doing there but the question was could he stay healthy right he was eligible for that

Big extension but they didn’t know if Miami was willing to commit to him long term because of the injury uh issues that he’s had he’s answered every question he’s answered every question that we’ve asked him this year can he throw from the pocket can he be a leader

Of men can he stay healthy so he has his team in the in right in the prime position to win the division so I have to say that he’s been most impressive as well because we they put they put everything on Tu a tonga VOR to live up

To expectations to show that last year wasn’t just a tease it was something that you can forecast that he can do this on a consistent basis right we always talk about his arm strength we talk about the things that he can’t do he’s been playing at an MVP level where

I would say these two quarterbacks are similar neither one of them has really shown up when the competition has elevated this would be the first time that somebody’s going to be able to have opportunity to prove that when the other guy on the other sideline is capable to

Punch back that they can be the best quarterback on the field so that’s what I’m excited to see but right now I can say Tua has been most impressive because he stayed healthy durable and he’s been the most accurate quarterback in all of football easy when you have the best

Weapon in football but cidd lamb isn’t a scrub either well B let me let me explain TV to something to you the point that you made last you probably want to start with that because you’re absolutely right both both of those guys need to show that they can win against

Tough competition although the Dallas Cowboys did beat the Philadelphia Eagles if you look at all their other victories I don’t think we think that the Giants and the commanders and the Panthers and the Jets and the Giants are anything to to write home about and we know the

Miami Dolphins haven’t beat anyone with a winning record and when they step up in competition the buffalos the Kansas Cities we saw the Eagles we saw what happened to them so they really need to win this game but I agree with uh RC I’m take Dak he’s second and passing

Touchdowns has 30 total touchdowns and he only has eight turnovers Tua has 15 turnovers 15 Dak is second in qbr uh Tua is 11th in qbr I think this is going to this game is going to tell us a lot about both teams are they really are

They really contenders or are they still pretending the one thing that Miami has in their favor they can run the football but whatever reason this year I don’t know if it’s age and attrition or a lack of commitment but the Cowboys do not run the football like they have in years

Past and I hate to say it I know Zeke was not the same Zeke from his first three years but he got you those tough ones and twos he when you got down to the Red Zone Z could get you a first down or he could bang the ball into the

End zone something the Cowboys have been missing because a lot of times they settle for field goals instead of kicking touchdowns but I also agree with you on this point Bart it’s close because neither team has beaten teams that we like oh man did you see the job

They did on them when they went to set when uh the Cowboys played the 49ers they got drugged when they play when they played the Arizona Cardinals M Cal Murray they got drugs in Miami every time we see them Step Up in competition they get beat so there’s a lot of prove

On a lot to prove on both sides but I’m agree with RC on this one I think Dak is slightly out play to it this year Dallas is going to have to find some way to run the football because the team that they’re going to face the Rams

Can run it the Lions can run it we know the 49ers can run it uh the eagles they haven’t run it like they quack ran it last year but we know what DeAndre Swift and jayen hurz if he can get a little more healthy I think they can run the

Football but the cow the Dallas Cowboys and you mentioned that RC uh Mike McCarthy lied Mike McCarthy made no commitment to running the football he just wanted to get Kelly Moore up out of oh yeah them fancy numbers we need to be a little bit more balanced and you’re

More lopsided than you were last year so line you know what when you watch the Chargers I ain’t mad at him let me say that it might not have been the wrong decision but the other thing we have to point to with both of these quarterbacks is the amount of pressure they’ve both

Been under the entire season coming into the season all the questions that Bart mentioned about Tu a Tunga Vala us continuously questioning who Dak Prescott truly is and can he Elevate his team that’s what’s happened now with this game right this game everything that you mentioned about not beating

Good teams not showing up Bart talking about the Dallas Cowboys getting kicked out of the club both of these teams have so much to prove more importantly both of these quarterbacks at different times of the Season both of these dudes have been the MVP front runner now they’ve

Kind of fallen out of that conversation but this is a game that gets you back in it this is a game that you get to show hell I don’t know Cass if I knew who played better I’d go bet I’d be in Vegas not not in New York back at you

You know when you look at these two teams Tu aonga Vala is set up to play better right like to answer Cassidy’s question Tu aonga aloa has the better the better Supporting Cast tuatonga aloa is playing against a defense that I believe in the Dallas Cowboys doesn’t play schematically in a way that’s

Supposed to stop the Miami Dolphins they also don’t have their roster Construction in a way that should be able to stop the Miami Dolphins and if you’re Raheem molard if you’re Mike McDaniel who comes from an offens offive line background who comes from a run schematic background you should be

Licking your chops that number 14 is going to be in the box that number 33 is going to be in the Box because if you watch James Cook last week it is as Bart always says it should be barbecue chicken every time you hand it off and

So to me Tua Tong of aloa is set up better to exploit that defense than Dak Prescott is the Miami Dolphins you you’re absolutely right because when you look at if you look at the Cowboys they are undersized defense they’re built to play with a lead and get after your

Quarterback that’s why teams push him around that’s why teams rush for these huge numbers uh get and and the losses they’re giving up almost 200 rush yards per game because when they fall behind and they can’t Micah and those guys can’t jump off the Rock and they got to

Sit there and catch people and you got to hey man up look a man in his eye yeah that’s the problem that they have so if I’m if I’m Miami I’m looking to establish the run first with most of this a because that’s the Cowboys weakness now you fall behind and they

Know you in obvious passing Downs they bring those little small guys in there and they spin it and twirling and they put the hits on your quarterback the twir yeah but I’m going to make yeah I’m going to make you look near my eyes I’m gonna make Michael standing there

Against those tight ends against those big tackles instead of trying to use that speed to get around them I’m going to make you have to drop drop anchor and hold up in the on the on the line we’re going to see what kind of coordinator Dan Quinn is because you know my move

Would be to move Michael Parsons to his natural position back to middle linebacker that gives you the size of 240lb guy outside of bell who’s 205 and I much rather bring another defensive lineman in and and just let you know Demarcus Lawrence be that that stud that strong side outside linebacker and say

Hey then when we get to these obvious passing sessions then I’ll drop Michael Parson down and let him go eat that way because you got to make adjustments because you can’t just get tough you know I it ain’t enough Muscle Milk or youed be be e back in the in in the

Day yeah yeah yeah ain’t enough creatine in the world to get to to bulk up Marcus Bale in the [Applause] [Applause] week