Dak poised to become Cowboys’ career passing leader

Frisco, Texas — with 160 yards on Sunday philadelphia eagles, dallas cowboys quarterback dak prescott Would become the franchise’s career passing leader.

Tony RomoPrescott’s predecessor, passed for 34,183 yards in his career. Prescott passed for 34,024 yards.

“I’m grateful. Grateful to be healthy and to be in this position to do this,” Prescott said. “I was on a production call [with Fox]And they asked me the same thing, ‘Would I have thought this 10 years ago?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, as a newbie I was very cocky.’ When you’ve played this game long enough and you can be healthy with my expectations about my game, that’s just the way it should be. So just grateful, humbled, very grateful to be playing a sport that I love at such a high level.”

Earlier in the season, Prescott had become the Cowboys’ leader in completions (now 3,033). He ranks second in attempts (4,521) troy aikmanThird in wins behind Aikman and Roger Staubach with 80, and second in touchdown passes behind Romo (247 to 234).

He entered the season with the best completion percentage in team history and has increased it to 67.1%. Of the marks he has set so far, this is the one he is most proud of.

“It’s hard to do that every year, every game,” Prescott said. “…I honestly try to score 80 runs in every game[%]And that’s a huge number, but that’s what I want. I think I’ve told you all that after games, I don’t like anything incomplete unless it’s good. [where] I have to throw it away and survive until the next game.”

Coach Brian Schottenheimer was unaware of how close Prescott was to the goal.

“He’s obviously not talking to me about it because his focus is on this football team,” Schottenheimer said. “If we do what we’re capable of doing, I believe he’ll achieve that milestone. I know what he really wants. It’s not his name individually in the record book. It’s about doing something collectively with this group of young men, his teammates, his brothers, which is much better than just getting individual accolades.”

missing a brother

This will be the Cowboys’ first home game since the passing of marshon neyland,

The team will wear T-shirts like Neeland’s for warmups. Before kickoff, a tribute video will be played and a moment of silence will be observed. Members of his family and his girlfriend Catalina Mancera are scheduled to be in attendance.

Things have not returned to normal, but the routine of the practice week is becoming systematic.

“I’ll be honest with you, my assistant Laura came in and I was in my office playing my music,” Schottenheimer said. “I’m a big music lover. And she was kind of saying silly things, but she said, ‘It’s great to see you playing your music that loud.’ “It kind of made me laugh because I’m feeling more like myself.”

Players say they will honor Neeland with the way he played.

“Marshawn, that’s something that’s inherent in us,” linebacker demarvian overshon Said. “We might have his shirt on, but he’s here. He’s here. The way we attack and practice, we wake up with him, like, OK, this is what Marshon will be doing. … It’s always going to be, we’re moving forward with Marshon, that’s never going to change.”

a different look

Special teams coordinator Nick Sorensen knows the Cowboys were fortunate on Monday against las vegas raiders,

After the Raiders made the score 33–16, they opted for an onside kick using the punter AJ Cole Instead of the traditional attempt with the kicker. Cole skidded a punt high in the air, and the Cowboys were alert and called for a fair catch.

One problem: They couldn’t really catch it. george pickens Stepped back. kavonte turpin Didn’t even come to take the catch. The Raiders were able to hold the ball and retain possession.

Pickens was able to retrieve the ball after it fell to the ground.

“It shows how good the GP’s hands are at catching that response early on,” Sorensen said. “It’s a free ball. The nice thing is when you fair-catch, it’s not like they can say hold it because that interferes with fair catch.” [penalty],

Sorensen said teams have used this type of free kick the past two years and they cover the scenario in their meetings and walkthroughs.

“It’s one of those things, it doesn’t happen often, so we’ll look at it again, remind people,” Sorensen said.