Griffin and Kaepernick were both gimmick QB's who enjoyed the vast majority of their success based on the year or two that the read option was actually a viable base offense.
Foles might be the best comparison because his success wasn't based on running 5-10 times a game like was the case with Griffin and Kaepernick, but even he had the benefit of playing in Chip Kelly's offense which hadn't yet been figured out by the NFL.
Long story short, those other three were in offenses that were in large part smoke and mirror, read option type of stuff that got figured out in a year or two. Prescott has primarily been making plays in a mostly traditional passing attack, albeit with the luxury of our OL and running game.
Only a retard/troll claims Prescott's similar to RG III and Kaep.
The purpose of the comparison is that everyone's so quick to anoint Prescott and get rid of Romo in 2017. Specifics are different, but we may not see Pro Bowl Prescott again.
Read option thrived because defenses were unfamiliar with QBs running ability. The outside defender lost his gap once the handoff was shown. After a season, outside defender adjusted aggressiveness, maintained control and read option squashed.
Jet sweep action and PA bootlegs worked remarkably better in the season's 1st half because defenses were unfamiliar with Cowboys running this, coming from the decade of Romo-film. In the last several games, outside defender has adjusted aggressiveness and these plays aren't producing.
LT Fan, Ravidubey and Genghis have been preaching all along that Dak's limited downfield passing would hurt us and now it has.
Not a single play like read-option, but the gimmick in our offense is to cover short and Dak can't hurt you deep. Zeke is gonna Zeke, but just contain/isolate damage to just Zeke (like the old Michael Jordan's gonna score 50, just don't let others hurt you) because defenses know Garrett/Linehan can't resist the pass. Be patient because Cowboys will fall back on the pass - they won't run Zeke 3 times in a row.
I root for Dak - I like his character thus far - but I also don't pretend that there's a one-year wonder element to his game, either.