Morales can only carry the team so far. At some point, such a player needs help and those around him need to step up to the plate and shoulder some of the burden. That point probably came 6 to 8 weeks ago, and unfortunately no-one took up the mantle.
One of Kenny Miller's frustrations here was the fact that those around him didn't have the same footballing brain. He would make runs, but the pass never came. He would make passes and the run never came. You can only imagine what Pedro Morales must think at times.
The result is he tries to do too much himself (ala that Dallas game) and when the opposition know that if you take Pedro out of the game, you've pretty much negated the Whitecaps attack, that's hard to overcome.
If you look at the six games that the Caps have lost this season, Morales has no goals and just one assist in them. In fact, of the 13 games this year in which Morales has registered neither a goal or an assist, the Whitecaps have won just one, with five defeats and seven draws from the others.
No Pedro, No Party and not too many points.
The cavalry has at least arrived in part with the addition of Mauro Rosales, who was excellent on Saturday against Portland, and will take on a lot of the creative play for the remainder of the season. But is it too little too late and has the long gruelling season to date started to wear down the Chilean?
Morales is looking tired and a shadow of the player we've seen at times during the early part of the season. Those balls aren't being sprayed about anywhere near as easily as they once were. He has struggled much of the season with his form on the road, but now has no goals and no assists in each of the last three matches. The Whitecaps have taken just one point from those three matches.
Are the signs there that Morales is worn out?
"I hope not, I really do," Carl Robinson told reporters after Saturday's loss. "But he’s played 13 months now nonstop which is why when I make the decision to leave him out and rest him it’s because I can sort of sense it.
"And maybe I get a bit of criticism when I leave him out. I've got to be careful of how I handle him because we've seen how good he can be. Today, he was okay. When he plays well we play well and today he didn't play to the levels of how we've seen him this season."
Part of the reason Morales' form has dipped is also due to the fact that finds himself heavily marked, and it's something Robinson knows is inevitable but hard to stop.
"In every game he gets targeted," Robinson added. "If I was playing against him, and knowing Caleb the way I know Caleb, I'd target him. It's no different. We talk about repetitive fouling and things like that and there was quite a bit of them [against Portland]."
The problem the Whitecaps have is that, Rosales apart, no-one else can produce close to what Morales can do. Nicolas Mezquida has been a disappointment, Sebastian Fernandez has been invisible far too often and Russell Teibert has been at his best in the DM role.
So what's the answer? The Caps can't rest him too often down the stretch, and especially not in the home games. Maybe Dallas away is the only game that you feel you may want him to sit if he needs that recovery time.
He's had niggling back and hamstring problems this year and running him into the ground doesn't help the player or the team. But they need him.
Can Morales get his mojo back for the season run-in? Especially without rest. It's going to be tough, but you do get the feeling that the Whitecaps playoff hopes largely depend on it.