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https://www.si.com/nfl/2022/12/25/cowboys-beat-eagles-micah-parsons-christmas-mmqb
Less than an hour after he walked out of the ring, with marks of a three-hour heavyweight fight still on him, Dak Prescott had every right to take every bit of criticism fired at him over the five previous days with him to the podium.
Instead, he went the other way.
“Let’s start with the interception,” Prescott said to the room of assembled media.
The 29-year-old quarterback then explained that he’d underestimated the length of Eagles edge rusher Josh Sweat, who pluck Prescott’s throw at point-blank range, then raced it 42 yards to paydirt. That happened less than six minutes into the game and put the Eagles up 10–0. It came on the heels of a seven-play, 68-yard field goal drive that Philadelphia backup QB Gardner Minshew had engineered to start the game.
It was also an interesting thing for Prescott to bring up first, on the heels of a career game in a very big spot at AT&T Stadium on Christmas Eve. And it’s indicative of where Dallas is right now, as it chases Philly, and seeding, in the NFC—the Cowboys’ best players aren’t just really, really good. They’re also accountable, and you saw that this week after a win, just like you did a week ago after a crushing loss to the Jaguars.
“I mean, Dak does his thing, no matter what,” do-everything linebacker Micah Parsons told me by phone, as he was leaving the locker room postgame. “If you give him the run game, he’s gonna take the run game. If you give him the pass game and the chance to throw it, he’s gonna throw it. We got one of the best quarterbacks in the league, and he just showed that here today.”
He showed more than just that.
The Cowboys, as a whole team, did too.
That 10–0 deficit? The pick-six? Learned from. Dealt with. Compartmentalized. And Prescott was hardly the only star with a star on his helmet to show that sort of resilience and competitiveness on Saturday afternoon.
Which is why the Cowboys came out of it with a 40–34 win—and a different look about them than they’ve had in a while.
Less than an hour after he walked out of the ring, with marks of a three-hour heavyweight fight still on him, Dak Prescott had every right to take every bit of criticism fired at him over the five previous days with him to the podium.
Instead, he went the other way.
“Let’s start with the interception,” Prescott said to the room of assembled media.
The 29-year-old quarterback then explained that he’d underestimated the length of Eagles edge rusher Josh Sweat, who pluck Prescott’s throw at point-blank range, then raced it 42 yards to paydirt. That happened less than six minutes into the game and put the Eagles up 10–0. It came on the heels of a seven-play, 68-yard field goal drive that Philadelphia backup QB Gardner Minshew had engineered to start the game.
It was also an interesting thing for Prescott to bring up first, on the heels of a career game in a very big spot at AT&T Stadium on Christmas Eve. And it’s indicative of where Dallas is right now, as it chases Philly, and seeding, in the NFC—the Cowboys’ best players aren’t just really, really good. They’re also accountable, and you saw that this week after a win, just like you did a week ago after a crushing loss to the Jaguars.
“I mean, Dak does his thing, no matter what,” do-everything linebacker Micah Parsons told me by phone, as he was leaving the locker room postgame. “If you give him the run game, he’s gonna take the run game. If you give him the pass game and the chance to throw it, he’s gonna throw it. We got one of the best quarterbacks in the league, and he just showed that here today.”
He showed more than just that.
The Cowboys, as a whole team, did too.
That 10–0 deficit? The pick-six? Learned from. Dealt with. Compartmentalized. And Prescott was hardly the only star with a star on his helmet to show that sort of resilience and competitiveness on Saturday afternoon.
Which is why the Cowboys came out of it with a 40–34 win—and a different look about them than they’ve had in a while.
