After the Philadelphia Eagles capped off a great season with Super Bowl LIX, their second title in eight years, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott says the Texas team is not far off from what the ‘Birds‘ showed and that they will soon win their own title, even though next season and 2025 will mark 30 years without even reaching an NFC Championship Game.
The Cowboys passer was optimistic during the announcement of the models for this year’s Children’s Cancer Fund gala, which will take place on April 11:
I feel like we’ve competed with the Eagles and beaten them in most cases when we’ve played against them
Dak Prescott
Although he also recognized the new NFL champions: “I don’t want to say, ‘Look at the record,’ when the other guy has the trophy, right? So credit to them. They earned it and they deserve it by all means. But yeah, (we’re) very close.”
But he ventured to say that the Cowboys could soon lift their sixth Lombardi Trophy when asked how far he felt they were from the rest of their NFC East rivals:
“Especially even watching the NFC Championship and those two teams, teams that we struggle against every year a couple of times. Like I said, (I’m) confident that we’ve gotten the better part each and every time. But just to see such a dominant style (as shown by the Eagles in the Super Bowl), credit to them. It’s our turn and it’s up to us.”
The sad reality for the Cowboys in 2025
After the Cowboys finished as the second seed in the NFC in 2023 and were thrashed by an inexperienced Green Bay Packers team, in 2024, the team showed a remarkable loss of talent and went their 29th season without reaching the NFC Championship Game. They did not even qualify for the playoffs with a dismal 7-10 record where Prescott only played eight games due to a partial avulsion of his right leg hamstring tendon
In 2025, Prescott will play for his third different head coach, Brian Schottenheimer, in 10 seasons. Jason Garrett commanded him in his final stretch from 2016 to 2019, followed by Mike McCarthy from 2020 to 2024.
“I’m very excited for him, for this opportunity,” Prescott said of Schottenheimer, whom he already knows as he had him as his offensive coordinator for the past two years. “Obviously, I’ve worked with him the last few years, understanding the kind of man he is, the way he approaches the game. I think the best way to exemplify it is that he’s the son of a legendary coach. He’s not going to take anything about this game lightly. He enjoys the work that goes into it, a little bit in the old-fashioned way.”
Once the Cowboys were out of the playoffs, Prescott has remained at The Star in Frisco, Texas, continuing his rehabilitation to be ready for the start of the offseason program in the spring
“My health is good, I’m doing a lot more, getting there. I think I’m about 12 weeks or so from surgery right now. I’m really looking to improve here recently. I got all my confidence back and we’ll be fine,” he said.