Dak Prescott Nonetheless Searching for Playoff Success Going Into tenth Season With Cowboys

Dak Prescott is likely to be the bodily embodiment of the place the Dallas Cowboys stand as a company in 2025. Each are wealthy, well-known and desperately in search of postseason success.

Going into his tenth season because the Cowboys’ quarterback, Prescott has been with the workforce for almost one-third of its NFC-worst 29-season drought and not using a convention title recreation look. He’s pushed to finish it this yr, ideally culminating in a Tremendous Bowl ring.

“In case you don’t wish to win a Tremendous Bowl, or don’t assume we are able to win a Tremendous Bowl, then don’t come to Oxnard,” Prescott stated Thursday. “You’re within the mistaken place. We all know the usual while you put on the star. We all know the expectations.”

Prescott is trying to bounce again from a chaotic 2024, which included turning into the highest-paid participant in NFL historical past following protracted and public contract negotiations earlier than sustaining a season-ending hamstring tear in early November.

Again at full well being and approaching his thirty second birthday on Tuesday, Prescott finds himself overseeing a a lot completely different offense beneath new coach Brian Schottenheimer than what Mike McCarthy ran the earlier 5 seasons. Prescott is lining up beneath heart extra after primarily understanding of the shotgun beneath McCarthy. There’s extra pre-snap movement and an elevated number of personnel groupings.

Prescott likes the modifications he has seen thus far through the first week of coaching camp.

“You don’t know actually after we’re going to movement, after we’re not, after we’re doing to hit you with one thing quick, so it’s simply one other nice weapon,” Prescott stated.

Even Prescott’s trademark “Right here we go” cadence is put aside at occasions, although Schottenheimer joked it’s too ingrained within the public consciousness to be totally deserted.

“I imply, why would we take it away when it’s acquired TikTok memes and stuff like that,” Schottenheimer stated. “It’s the most effective issues that he does, man, and so we’re going to let him do this. However like all the things that we do, we’re going to be a number of.”

One other key asset is the return of Prescott’s mobility, which he has displayed by extending performs or scrambling.

“It’s been an extended street to it,” Prescott stated of his restoration after partially tearing his hamstring off the bone in opposition to the Atlanta Falcons on Nov. 3, requiring surgical procedure and a prolonged rehabilitation course of. “It is one thing that I take into consideration each time I step on that subject, being grateful for this second. Not taking something as a right, and understanding that I’ve acquired to proceed to push. It is one factor to be wholesome, however how a lot better can I get now that I am wholesome, and that is on the forefront of my thoughts, so feels good.”

That harm and Prescott’s veteran standing led Schottenheimer to say the quarterback’s workload in camp can be fastidiously managed to make sure he can be wholesome for the common season. Nevertheless, Schottenheimer conceded it is likely to be tough to get Prescott to dial issues again.

“He needs to do as a lot as doable,” Schottenheimer stated. “Fortunately, we’ve the trump card with him on that. However in all seriousness, there is a good option to practice.”

Even with the lower in preseason snaps, Prescott’s need to compete has not diminished, bodily or mentally.

“It’s what I need from this recreation, and I do know it’s what everybody needs on this locker room,” Prescott stated. “Profitable. Profitable, profitable, profitable. And, clearly, if we give all the things we are able to, and also you go at it, there’s a number of good issues and patches and pats on the again, I suppose you can say, on the best way.

“However that’s what’s on my thoughts, 10 (years) in and able to play one other 10. However I need that at the start now, and that’s the urgency that I carry with simply the love and the eagerness of this recreation shouldn’t be solely desirous to win for myself, however desirous to win for this group. It’s been, effectively, rattling lengthy sufficient.”

Reporting by The Related Press.

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