Twitter: McCarthy wants Prescott to run more this year

[PAPPYDOG]

I agree with McCarthy, being a year removed from the injury Dak will need to use all assets he has. I do think Dak needs to be smart when running the ball but he has to show the duel threat I believe to reach the next level

He runs like an LB who is a constipated.......duel threat ya Ok.....

 

[Typhus]

RAGE!!!!!

We got meds for that.

 

[ESisback]

Football or herding sheep?

Leg injuries. Probably in addition to football and herding sheep. Maybe magic, Kung ** and baking, too.

 

[Typhus]

I care that coaches are smarter than you, McCarthy has said they will look to use Dak ability to run after a year removed from a devastating injury, not my job to care about players but it is his.

I really do not buy shirts, the couple I have with are dress shirt I wear and frankly no one laughs then again I have many friends who are Cowboys fans as well.

Dooms... do you honestly ever envision Dak being as mobile as he was when drafted?

 

[Swagger]

I'm surprised McCarthy wants Prescott to run more after the circus act of a last play versus the 49ers

 

[Doomsday101]

He runs like an LB who is a constipated.......duel threat ya Ok.....

Not bad for a constipated LB

 

[CouchCoach]

Again, it's the playoffs, some guys will do whatever it takes to win and others won't.

We seem to have a guy that makes business decisions instead.

If Dak never sees the playoffs again in his career then I'm sure he'll be just fine living with not doing all he could do. He don't strike me as one of those "win at all costs" type of guy.

What do you call those runs when he's giving up his body and he gets hammered?

I see no difference is his play since he signed that contract but I do see that since his ankle and calf and I don't believe him, his wheels were a drawback all last season.

I will agree with some of the points some that don't like him at QB make but I do not think that is fair. I do not think any QB has more of a will to win than Prescott. The man has been fighting this "he's not good enough" for most of his life.

I also do not live in the mind of a QB than knows if he goes down, the team gores down with him. That is not arrogance, it is responsibility.

 

[Doomsday101]

Would love to see the transition, like an old transmission finally shifting out of third gear, but my elevated expectations come from 1-3 year players, with ceiling still obtainable.
I am being honest with you that I dont feel that Dak will ever be any better than what he has already proven to be.
Thats a mediocre average ceiling that has already been hit.

I disagree, I think he improved this past season 68.8 completion rate, highest of his career. 37 TD another career high and this despite he had no off season to work on his game. He spent his time rehabbing

 

[youngjerryjones]

His confidence is already shot.

That's a part of the reason he played so scared last year. I don't buy the injury excuses, especially late in the year. He just played scared.

agree he plays scared but you're acting like we had the option for a top 5 draft pick in the past 4 years or the option to replace him with a lesser contract for a better player... unless we are picking top 5 it's really subjective to say the FO screwed up...plus look at all the teams that picked in the top 10 but ended up picking the wrong QB...Mahomes, Allen and Herbert are the only options we could have traded up for and Burrow went first overall.

If we wanted to improve the position and you're saying we should have cut bait and tanked that's a different story but this franchise did have a successful season at 12-4 and that was with 80% of this board coming to a consensus they are losing 8-9 games...they did do a good job and to expect that he will not be better is just ignorant

 

[Dre11]

"We tried to be smart when we used him last year"

Why? There is a shelf life. There is a window. This is football and that window and shelf life is much smaller in the NFL than other sports.

Playing scared is what losers do.

Did you not see that it was because he was coming off a serious injury, by most accounts it takes a year to get back. See Barkley

 

[MountaineerCowboy]

What do you call those runs when he's giving up his body and he gets hammered?

I see no difference is his play since he signed that contract but I do see that since his ankle and calf and I don't believe him, his wheels were a drawback all last season.

I will agree with some of the points some that don't like him at QB make but I do not think that is fair. I do not think any QB has more of a will to win than Prescott. The man has been fighting this "he's not good enough" for most of his life.

I also do not live in the mind of a QB than knows if he goes down, the team gores down with him. That is not arrogance, it is responsibility.

I call those runs "I'm trying to get paid" runs. He got hurt, got paid, and stopped running.

I think the problem with Dak is that he is, in fact, "good enough". But, that's it. He's just good enough. It doesn't go beyond that. Simply being "good enough" can give you a nice career in sports, but you're not putting teams on your back and winning championships without guys that are better than "just good enough" all around you.

 

[Scotman]

If Prescott is able to run some again, I think it will make a big difference. I thought the entire team laid an egg in the playoff game last year...with a few exceptions. Prescott was one of them I expected better of. I am happy that he is now well-removed from that gruesome injury. I don't know enough about what was done to know if it will impact his speed. But he doesn't need to be fast. He just has to run enough to slow down the pass rush by a half second. I'd like to think he's still capable of that. I am admittedly a bit down on him.

What I don't understand is the number of people that seemingly love to hate him. I'm super disappointed in his last game. I expected better. But dang...I want him to succeed. I couldn't care less if my dampened enthusiasm is proven premature. I don't care about LIKES or fake internet points. Right now, I'm skeptical of Dak simply because half of his career is possibly already in the rear view mirror and he hasn't done it yet. The clock is always ticking. If he comes out this year and takes this team all the way, I won't care at all that I had grown skeptical. I'll gladly eat a few servings of crow.

But some of you seem to be fervently waiting to tell anyone who's hopeful how wrong they are. I really don't get that. Even if I was completely soured on Dak, I would avoid reading a lot of the comments about him because it's so overwhelmingly negative.

 

[Typhus]

I disagree, I think he improved this past season 68.8 completion rate, highest of his career. 37 TD another career high and this despite he had no off season to work on his game. He spent his time rehabbing

Dak will play in this league as long as he wants to.
Look at how long Alex Smith lasted and he was the 1st overall pick.

 

[Dre11]

I take nobody's word for it because I have the ability to form my own opinions about things instead of piggy backing off someone else opinions.

But hey, to each their own.

So you've played in the nfl and knows how and when a serious injury is suppose to be healed...lol

 

[phildadon86]

Clearly a few defend this sort of babying of a player and it's pretty gross.

You're in the playoffs. You're either doing all you can to win or you're not. The Cowboys HC is right here on record saying they did not use everything in their power to win. Who's to say Dak and McCarthy ever get another chance to do it?

This fanbase has fallen so from since the 90s.

You get paid to do a job. My boss will never tell me to do less.

 

[Typhus]

If Prescott is able to run some again, I think it will make a big difference. I thought the entire team laid an egg in the playoff game last year...with a few exceptions. Prescott was one of them I expected better of. I am happy that he is now well-removed from that gruesome injury. I don't know enough about what was done to know if it will impact his speed. But he doesn't need to be fast. He just has to run enough to slow down the pass rush by a half second. I'd like to think he's still capable of that. I am admittedly a bit down on him.

What I don't understand is the number of people that seemingly love to hate him. I'm super disappointed in his last game. I expected better. But dang...I want him to succeed. I couldn't care less if my dampened enthusiasm is proven premature. I don't care about LIKES or fake internet points. Right now, I'm skeptical of Dak simply because half of his career is possibly already in the rear view mirror and he hasn't done it yet. The clock is always ticking. If he comes out this year and takes this team all the way, I won't care at all that I had grown skeptical. I'll gladly eat a few servings of crow.

But some of you seem to be fervently waiting to tell anyone who's hopeful how wrong they are. I really don't get that. Even if I was completely soured on Dak, I would avoid reading a lot of the comments about him because it's so overwhelmingly negative.

Being removed from the injury does not mean that Dak will ever return to being a mobile QB ever again, regardless where he plays when his days are over here.
Its not a knock on Dak, its just the natural progression of the aging process.
This is a ridiculous assumption that this fan base has some how accepted, that we are dependent on Dak becoming mobile again as part of the excuse for his poor play.
That part of his game will never return, so time to come up with more excuses about the OL and running game being atrocious.
Dak is a fine, good , FO franchise figure head for the time being.

 

[phildadon86]

Read the posts in this thread as well as your own posts in this thread for that matter .

You seem perfectly okay with the way they handed things with Dak last season. You seem perfectly okay with our HC admitting publicly that they did not do all they could to advance in the playoffs last year, BUT don't worry they will next year blah blah blah.

The fanbase have accepted mediocrity. They have become comfortable in it.

That same coach said they were going to work on the penalty issue (an issue all season) in the off-season.

Jerry should have fired him right then and there. Instead of pretending to be angry about it, drinking a bottle of JWB and then saying. Meh.

 

[MountaineerCowboy]

You get paid to do a job. My boss will never tell me to do less.

You clearly do not play for the Dallas Cowboys then.

 

[Doomsday101]

Dooms... do you honestly ever envision Dak being as mobile as he was when drafted?

As mobile? No however I think he can be more effective than he was when he was drafted. I don't envision him running as much as he did when he 1st entered the league I do think using the ability to run on designed plays can help slow down pass rush and I think he must learn to take what you can get then slide of get out of bound. He was never Michael Vick fast but he was still a threat that defense had to account for.

 

[MountaineerCowboy]

That same coach said they were going to work on the penalty issue (an issue all season) in the off-season.

Jerry should have fired him right then and there. Instead of pretending to be angry about it, drinking a bottle of JWB and then saying. Meh.

And the same fans ate it up as the gospel.

They're so easily fooled. No wonder Jerry Jones can make billions while knowing nothing about football with a fanbase like this supporting him it's almost impossible to fail.