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Todd Archer
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 set to affix them however to not cement any sort of legacy.
“Yeah, I need to win a championship,” Prescott mentioned when the Cowboys concluded their offseason program Thursday. “The legacy, the issues, no matter comes after I end enjoying will care for itself. I need to win a championship. Be damned if it is only for my legacy, or if it is for this crew, for my private being, for my sanity. Yeah, the legacy will care for 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 file within the convention one time — 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 file.
For the Cowboys to have that likelihood, Prescott, who was the runner-up 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 on account of harm in 4 of the previous 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 all the offseason program with out a difficulty and will likely be totally cleared for contact when coaching camp begins in Oxnard, California, on July 22.
“These OTAs, simply the best way that I have been seeing minicamp, the communication with [head coach Brian Schottenheimer], with the quarterbacks or the quarterback room, simply numerous good issues,” Prescott mentioned. “Lots of actually good issues which have me in a terrific 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 mentioned, “wins.” Their conversations haven’t talked about legacy in any respect.
“We simply discuss what it takes to win, work ethic, the sacrifice you need to make to win,” Schottenheimer mentioned. “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.”
