Cowboys QB Dak Prescott after Eagles' Super Bowl win: 'It's our turn'

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is selecting optimism forward of his tenth season in Dallas.

On Tuesday, Prescott attended an occasion for the 2025 Youngsters’s Most cancers Fund gala, for which he’s the honorary chairman, and was asked a few questions about the changes ahead for the Cowboys.

The 2022 Walter Payton Man of the Yr did not simply handle his workforce’s future below newly employed coach Brian Schottenheimer, although. He additionally provided his ideas on the Cowboys’ capability to compete with the Philadelphia Eagles, their NFC East rival and not too long ago minted Super Bowl LIX champions. He even weighed in on the Saints hiring Kellen Moore as their new head coach.

This is what he needed to say.

Prescott on the Cowboys being “very shut” competitively to the Philadelphia Eagles

The Eagles could also be contemporary off a Tremendous Bowl championship, whereas Dallas is coming off a 7-10 season, however Prescott believes the Cowboys have been capable of get the perfect of them most of the time.

“I really feel like we compete with the Eagles and beat them for probably the most half once we’ve performed them. I do not wish to say examine the report when the opposite man’s holding a trophy proper now. So, credit score to them. They’ve earned it, and so they deserved it, by all means.”

Philadelphia soundly defeated Dallas of their two matchups in 2024: 34-6 in Week 10 and 41-7 in Week 17. Nonetheless, backup Cooper Rush began each instances as Prescott missed the ultimate 9 weeks of the season with a torn hamstring.

The Cowboys are 9-4 in opposition to the Eagles all-time when Prescott has been below heart, with the quarterback accounting for 3,402 passing yards, 24 passing touchdowns and three speeding touchdowns.

Dallas went 1-1 in opposition to a unique divisional rival this season, the Washington Commanders, who made all of it the best way to the NFC Championship Sport earlier than dropping to Philadelphia.

“Particularly even watching the NFC Championship and people groups, groups that we battle in opposition to every 12 months … As I mentioned, really feel assured that we have gotten the higher half every time.

“However simply seeing such a dominating trend, credit score to them,” Prescott mentioned in regards to the Eagles’ 40-22 win over the Kansas City Chiefs. “It is our flip, and it is on us.”

The Cowboys have not received the Tremendous Bowl for the reason that 1995 season and have the longest NFC Championship Game drought in NFL history.

Prescott on working with new head coach Brian Schottenheimer

Brian Schottenheimer, the son of former NFL head coach Marty Schottenheimer, will function the third Cowboys head coach since Prescott was drafted in 2016.

However regardless of the veteran QB’s public support for former coach Mike McCarthy, he is embracing the altering of the guard. It in all probability helps that Prescott has labored with Schottenheimer over the previous couple of years because the latter was the workforce’s teaching analyst (2022) and offensive coordinator (2023-2024).

“Understanding the kind of coach he’s, the kind of man he’s, the best way that he approaches the sport, I feel the easiest way to exemplify that’s the son of a legendary soccer coach.” Prescott mentioned. “He isn’t going to take something about this recreation flippantly. He enjoys the work in it, sort of quaint.”

Prescott performed a few of his finest soccer with Schottenheimer as his OC, when wholesome. In 25 video games in Schottenheimer’s offense, he accomplished 67.9% of his throws for six,494 yards and 47 touchdowns, with a 99.4 passer score common. Prescott made simply eight begins in 2024, however he led the NFL in completions (410) and passing touchdowns (36) in 2023 when he performed in all 17 video games.

“I am trying ahead to the grind and a few issues that we’ll do and he will add, excited for him, I do know he is prepared for it, he is been within the system a very long time,” Prescott added.

Prescott on Kellen Moore being named the brand new head coach of the Saints

Following the Eagles’ Tremendous Bowl victory, the Saints introduced they have been hiring Moore, who spent this previous season as Philadelphia’s offensive coordinator.

Earlier than that, although, Moore had served 4 seasons because the offensive coordinator in Dallas (2019-22).

Prescott had nothing however properly needs for the 36-year-old, who performed with Dallas from 2015-2017, and commenced his teaching profession with the workforce as a quarterbacks coach in 2018.

“Tremendous blissful for him. … Tremendous pleased with him. Successful the Tremendous Bowl. Getting that workforce there. Being … the No. 1 offense within the league, dominant, [Saquon Barkley] setting the speeding report, exhibiting how he is advanced and what he can do.”

“And I feel he is simply going to take one other step in that when he will get to New Orleans. Tremendous excited for him and his alternative,” Prescott mentioned.

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