Terry Bradshaw is keeping his backing of Jerry Jones and Dak Prescott on a short leash.
On FOX Sunday, the NFL analyst said he has long been in Jones’ corner and still counts Prescott among the players he supports, but he drew a hard line with the Cowboys. Bradshaw said Dallas needs to handle business against the Eagles on Monday night and then follow that up with a win over the Cardinals.
“I’m not going to lie to you guys, I’m a Jerry Jones fan, always have been…Dak Prescott,â he shared on FOX.
The message comes with the Cowboys sitting at 2-4, a record that leaves little room for another stumble. Their matchup with the injury-riddled Eagles looms as a must-have game, and Prescott made clear the urgency inside the building.
“We can only say we’ve got a lot of games in front of us for so long. Might be already past us, right?
We’ve got to go win,” Prescott said, via ESPN. “You’ve got to go win.
You want to give yourself a chance to be a winning team, to be a playoff team. You got to win as many games as you can, and when you drop two games - in particular games that we didn’t expect to drop - it makes it that much harder.
So urgent, urgent to get it done now.”
Even with the slow start, ESPN’s Football Power Index is still projecting Dallas as a live contender in the NFC East. The model gives the Cowboys a 66 percent chance to win the division, a 67.5 percent chance to reach the playoffs and a 5.7 percent chance to make the Super Bowl.
Still, the margin for error is gone. Monday night’s kickoff is set for 8:15 p.m. E.T., with the game airing on ESPN.
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