Colin Cowherd isn’t ready to file Dak Prescott away as just another good quarterback with a long résumé. He thinks the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback will get Hall of Fame consideration when it’s all over, and he believes the mess around him will be part of that conversation.
Speaking on “The Herd with Colin Cowherd,” the Fox Sports host argued that Prescott’s career has to be judged in context, not just by Dallas’ 3-5 start.
“He remains the best quarterback, arguably ever at the podium. Always says the right things.
Whether he believes it, I’ll take his word. His career, you have to consider when he retires and you’re thinking about Hall of Fame votes, and he’ll get them.
You’ve got to consider what he was surrounded with, because he has put up some fairly prodigious numbers, and I think in the current situation he’s not getting the kind of help from the staff he’s earned.”
Cowherd’s comments came after Dallas’ 33-30 overtime loss to Arizona on Sunday, a defeat that pushed the Cowboys to 3-5 and put coach Brian Schottenheimer under a brighter spotlight.
Prescott did his part statistically, finishing 19 of 29 for 195 yards and a touchdown while adding 20 rushing yards and another score. He was also sacked four times.
The Cowboys managed just 93 rushing yards on 39 carries, a 2.4-yard average, after putting up 204 on the ground against Philadelphia the week before. Dallas still hasn’t won back-to-back games this season.
The game unraveled late. Arizona scored 26 points after halftime and tied it with a touchdown and six seconds remaining, and the Cowboys matched the largest fourth-quarter lead they have ever blown, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Gardner Minshew threw three fourth-quarter touchdown passes in his Cardinals debut, and Tyler Allgeier ran for 147 yards.
Afterward, Prescott made it clear he wasn’t interested in pinning the loss on Schottenheimer.
“It’s all of us,” Prescott said. “Don’t put the blame on one person.
Simple as that. I think that’s weak.
I think that’s cowardice. This game is about all 11 that touch the field and every person that has a part in it coaches and support staff.
It’s never just one person’s fault.”
He called it “one of the toughest I guess I’ve been a part of” and added:
“No words for it really. Other than that, really, really disappointing, and frustrating.
It’s part of this league.” Later he offered a shorter version: “At this point, talk is cheap.”
Jerry Jones also stood by his coach, saying he was not considering an in-season change while describing the loss as “an indictment of the whole show.”
Cowherd was even harsher on the coaching side. He had left Prescott off his top-10 quarterbacks list in May, but on this topic he was direct: Dallas is “the worst-coached team in the NFL, and it is by a wide margin,” he said, adding that Jones “went cheap on coaching.”
Still, Cowherd doesn’t see the answer as a full reset. “They got dudes,” he said, and he pointed to the Nov. 10 trade deadline as a place to begin fixing things. His larger point was simple: Prescott has produced, and the help around him hasn’t matched it.
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