FRISCO, Texas – Dak Prescott is coming into his tenth season because the Dallas Cowboys quarterback.
Solely Troy Aikman has had an extended run on the place in franchise historical past. Aikman and Roger Staubach are additionally the one two quarterbacks which have gained a Tremendous Bowl with the Cowboys.
Prescott, who turns 32 subsequent month, is decided to hitch them however to not cement any type of legacy.
“Yeah, I wish to win a championship,” Prescott stated when the Cowboys concluded their offseason program Thursday. “The legacy, the issues, no matter comes after I end taking part in will maintain itself. I wish to win a championship. Be damned if it is only for my legacy, or if it is for this workforce, for my private being, for my sanity. Yeah, the legacy will maintain itself. I’ve to remain the place my toes are.”
Prescott has delivered the Cowboys to the playoffs 5 instances. The Cowboys have had the perfect document within the convention as soon as, his rookie yr in 2016, and performed on wild-card weekend the opposite 4 instances however haven’t gotten to the NFC Championship Sport.
Prescott has a 2-5 playoff document.
For the Cowboys to have that likelihood, Prescott, who was the runnerup within the MVP voting in 2023 when Dallas completed 12-5 for the third straight season, has to stay wholesome. He has missed video games attributable to harm in 4 of the final 5 seasons, together with 9 final yr after needing surgical procedure to restore a hamstring avulsion because the Cowboys completed 7-10.
He went by way of all the offseason program with out a problem and can be absolutely cleared for contact when coaching camp begins in Oxnard, California, on July 22.
“These OTAs, simply the way in which that I have been seeing minicamp, the communication with (head coach Brian Schottenheimer), with the quarterbacks or the quarterback room, simply quite a lot of good issues,” Prescott stated. “Numerous actually good issues which have me in an incredible place. I am wholesome. Excited as hell.”
Schottenheimer was requested if there are particular statistics or metrics to measure Prescott’s success and he merely stated, “wins.” Their conversations haven’t talked about legacy in any respect.
“We simply discuss what it takes to win, work ethic, the sacrifice it’s a must to make to win,” Schottenheimer stated. “That is related in any subject you are in … This is without doubt one of the hardest working gamers I’ve ever been round, Dak.”
