Jerry Jones will be disappointed if Dallas Cowboys don’t win Super Bowl with Dak Prescott
Dak Prescott walked off the field Sunday night to chants of “MVP” from adoring Dallas Cowboys.
And as he was took the podium before his post-game press conference, fans repeated the chant through the glass windows.
The Cowboys quarterback, who passed for 271 yards and two touchdowns in a 33-13 victory against the Philadelphia Eagles to put his time in the first-place tie atop the NFC East, is now the betting favorite to win the award.
Certainly, no quarterback and no player has it going better than Prescott right now.
Prescott has led the Cowboys (10-3) to seven wins in their last eight games, including five straight. He has 23 touchdowns passes and two interceptions and a 118.5 quarterback rating during that span.
He was already playing well.
But beating the Eagles, giving him and the Cowboys their first win over a team with a winning record, has put him over the top as the front runner and much more.
“I thought this was a monumental game for him,” Jones said. “Everybody who follows the NFL and follows sports knew that he had a lot of the expectation as to how he was going to perform and how he was going to meet this challenge. He did it and he did it in a very efficient way against a team as good as we’ll play.”
Getting over that challenge and answering those questions are most important to Jones because the Cowboys goal is get the Super Bowl for the first time since 1995 and end a 28-year title drought.
Him being considering and possibly winning the award only means that the Cowboys are headed in the right direction with four games left in the season.
“He doesn’t have to win that award for me to know how important he is to our aspirations this year, where we are and where we’ve got a chance to go,” Jones said. “He’s got that kind of appreciation from I think everybody in this organization. He’s become possibly and I would say he’s become the most valuable player right before our eyes in the last several months.”
“We’ll go as far as Dak will take us.”
He even invoked a statement he made about former quarterback Tony Romo, the team’s all-time leading passer who was replaced by Prescott in 2016.
Romo won just two playoff games with the Cowboys.
“Not getting a championship with Romo at quarterback is my biggest disappointment since I’ve been with the Cowboys,” Jones said. “We should have gotten it there and just didn’t.”
“Very. Very. Equally. Equally so,” Jones said when asked he would have the same disappointment if the Cowboys don’t win with Prescott.
“Dak is a player who is qualified in every way to have a Super Bowl in his career. Dak is.”
