Dak Prescott seemed a bit less sure about playing in a meaningless season finale than he did about a Christmas Day game that also had no connection to the playoffs.
Until the question of the final record for the Dallas Cowboys came up. The star quarterback was much more certain then.
Dallas (7-8-1) kept alive its chance to avoid a losing season with a 30-23 victory on the road against the Washington Commanders. The Cowboys will be back on the road to finish the season against the New York Giants on Jan. 3 or 4.
“Big difference,” Prescott said when asked about 8-8-1 vs. 7-9-1. “A lot of pride. To the point, I want to play. Any season of me being out there, I’ve never had, in all [of] my profession, a season below .500. In order that tie goes to come back into play rather well.”
Prescott and his teammates in all probability do not know it has been 23 years for the reason that Cowboys had consecutive shedding seasons. Dallas had three in a row from 2000-02 in the one three seasons of Dave Campo’s head-coaching profession.
A 12 months in the past, Prescott missed the ultimate 9 video games with a torn hamstring because the Cowboys completed 7-10 in coach Mike McCarthy’s final season. Brian Schottenheimer, a first-year head coach after a quarter-century as an NFL assistant, definitely has the motivation to beat the Giants.
The tough half is that Prescott endured a season-high six sacks towards the Commanders. Every time the franchise QB is dragged down below these circumstances, collective breaths are held in staff proprietor Jerry Jones’ suite and past.
“In fact, I don’t wish to get him hit six occasions,” Schottenheimer mentioned. “We additionally ran 80-something performs. I assumed he did an incredible job along with his legs, however I don’t need Dak to get hit like that. However I feel we all know easy methods to do it at the next stage than we did tonight.”
Prescott minimize a reporter brief early within the week on the query of enjoying towards the Commanders, partly as a result of it was Christmas. He wasn’t practically as emphatic after the sport.
“I like this sport. I like any alternative that I get to play it,” Prescott mentioned. “I perceive the the reason why perhaps not, and if that’s the strategy with that, I’ll deal with that then.”
Reporting by The Related Press.
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