Jerry Jones didn’t duck the question about Dak Prescott’s prime years. He leaned right into it.
On Friday, the Cowboys owner joined 105.3 The Fan and weighed in on a Jon Machota piece that asked whether Dallas is wasting the best stretch of Prescott’s career. Jones agreed with the premise, pointing to where Prescott is now in his career and how the team has tried to build around him.
.@OThankKevin and @inthemageors asked Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for his thoughts on @jonmachota's latest story asking if Dallas is wasting Dak Prescott's prime pic.twitter.com/ReSMMChnXq
— 105.3 The FAN (@1053thefan) October 16, 2026
“I think he's at the prime of his career is what has motivated me to move chess pieces around the way we've been doing over the last three years. He's right.
This is a great time. We've got outstanding quarterbacking, combination of his abilities, his athletic ability, as well as just what's in his experience factor as well as his natural leadership, but it was a great time, and so that had everything has everything since we have made the decision to have him on the team on the basis we are,” the team owner said.
Jones said the way Dallas has arranged the roster has been driven by Prescott’s window, and he pointed to the offense as the area with the biggest direct impact on the quarterback.
“Then it has everything to do with moving the chess pieces around, and if you look over the years, we have really had the most direct thing that could impact him, which is the offense. If you look over the years, the supporting cast we've had around Dak Prescott, I'll put that with anybody, and on the offensive side of the ball, so we put it there for him, not for him, for us, for all of us, and we work hard.”
Prescott entered the NFL in 2016 and has established himself as one of the league’s top quarterbacks. Dallas has reached the playoffs multiple times with him, but the deeper postseason breakthrough still hasn’t come, with no Super Bowl appearance and no NFC Championship Game appearance.
The Cowboys are 2-3 this season and currently sit third in the NFC East behind the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Giants, with the Washington Commanders behind them.
Next up, Dallas goes on the road to face the Green Bay Packers on Oct. 18 at 8:20 p.m. ET.
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