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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990
Watson is better than Dak? That's debatable...
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It's Alex Smith vs. Eli Manning 2.0
Both guys have serious flaws in their games but approach it in a completely different manner. Manning knew he wasn't a precise short-passer so he became something of a mad bomber and traded risk for reward. He knew he was not significantly less likely to throw a pick or misfire on a short pass, so he threw deep to try to make the reward higher and offset marginally increased risk.
Smith wasn't someone who was comfortable taking deep shots so he leaned into the fact that he was pretty precise underneath.
Both guys were probably about equally useful, equally productive quarterbacks. It their peaks, they were in the upper level of second tier quarterbacks.
Dak is Alex to Watson's Eli. I don't think either of them were truly demonstrably better than the other, but they did things in a decidedly different way. And the latter's way is probably more useful in the post-season because it can dig you out of the hole that you'll inevitably find yourself in at least once if you're playing 3 quality playoff caliber teams.
I don't think either guy is clearly better than the other at his particular style, but I think Watson's style is more conducive to post-season success than Dak's.