80 yards rushing, 3.6 ypc (Again, lots of carries is part of the system, the system that Dak wins in)
93 yards in the Chiefs game with a killer 3.4 ypc (Yep, that's 3.4 ypc, which is really bad)
62 yards in the second Giants game with a whopping 3.3 ypc out of our top rusher.
I'm not sure where you're getting your stats from but those are the real ones. Again, 3.3, 3.4, and 3.6 ypc are straight up bad. If our RB averaged that on a season you'd be screaming for him to be out of the NFL.
By the way, you can throw the Oakland game in there last season as well. Morris had 62 yards in that game.
We're not on the same page here.
I gave you the real stats, not cherry picked to make your argument. Those are the team rushing stats (minus QB, which I didn't include).
Unless it's like 2 yards per carry, the YPC are more or less irrelevant. If you run on first and second down at 3.3 or 3.4 yards, that's third and about 3.5. That's not a difficult conversion. That's not a good YPC but it's not "shut down." YPC is useful at the extremes but it's an overrated stat otherwise.
We had plenty of yards rushing in each of those games to keep the defense honest.
In truth it'll be rare with this team that our running game is shut down.
But there have been a couple times. Off the top of my head, the Denver game for one. That game didn't go well for anybody, and honestly I blame the coaches as much as anybody.
The fact remains that I don't think Dak has proven he can win when the running game is shut down. Like truly shut down, not 80-110 yards. Volume matters A LOT with the running game.
Even if there are one or two games in his pro career where the running game was shut down and Dak won the game for us (not the defense or special teams, literally Dak), one or two games isn't enough in mind as a small sample size to constitute "proof". I don't remember it happening yet, but I could be wrong.
All I'm saying is it remains to be seen, not that he can't do it.