Everything QB Dak Prescott said after Dallas Cowboys’ loss to Bears
The Dallas Cowboys lost to the Chicago Bears 31-14 on Sunday at Soldier Field.
Quarterback Dak Prescott completed 31 of 40 passes for 251 yards and a touchdown with two interceptions.
Here’s everything he said to the media after the loss:
On today’s performance
“It’s hard to, honestly. I’ve got to go look at it from the offensive standpoint. I know scoring 14 points is never going to be OK. Dang sure not with this offense, this unit, the team, the players we have. Six of those were field goals, so not acceptable, not to our standard, not anywhere what we believe in and what we’re capable of doing and got away, got away quick and had a chance right there to cut it back to 10 and had a turnover in the red zone. That’s unacceptable.”
On losing wide receiver CeeDee Lamb
“Obviously, you lose a player like CeeDee, it hurts. It’s hard to substitute that. When you’ve got the plays that we’ve got, we’re wondering anyways how teams are going to play us, so then when you lose a guy like that, maybe it made their game plan a lot easier from their standpoint to double [Cowboys wide receiver] George [Pickens], cloud George is what they did early. He was still able to make some plays. But, yeah, it’s tough to win a game when you lose a player like CeeDee for sure.”
On the message to the team after this loss
“Everybody individually’s got to be accountable, look at themselves in the mirror and ask what can they do and what can I do better? Throughout the week in my preparation, make sure that we come out here and play better in the beginning and we start faster. We’ve got to go out there and score and not get field goals. [Cowboys kicker Brandon] Aubrey is a hell of a kicker, and he’s a great asset for us, but we can’t lean on him. We can’t get down to the red zone and say, ‘Oh, yeah, we got a field goal, we’re fine.’ No, we’ve got to go get points. We’ve got to get seven points and cash in. So, everybody’s just got to look at themselves and say where can I get better and where can I help this team individually and if we do that collectively, we should put ourselves in a better position than we did today.”
On tight end Jake Ferguson having 13 catches
“That’s definitely what they were giving. We’re never mad if Ferg’s going to have that many targets. Obviously, we want to win the game, but when you’ve got guys like George and CeeDee out there, we’re expecting them to give us cloud, double those guys on the outside. It’s going to take Ferg winning on the inside. He did that for the most part, we just weren’t able to cash in. We weren’t able to score touchdowns, and they were on the other side.”
On the Cowboys putting in backup quarterback Joe Milton late
“Honestly, I want every rep. Never happy about getting pulled out, but you’ve got to be realistic and professional and understanding of where the game was. I had a chance right there as I said to go score in the red zone and we didn’t. At that point it was a what? Three-score game with two minutes left. And it’s a young season. As hard-headed as I am and I want to get out there and get every rep, those guys are 10 off in the rush, right? And I want to stay healthy and want to be healthy, and I’m sure that was a big part of that decision there. So, yeah. Understood.”
On Chicago’s secondary
“They were dropping. They were getting a lot of depth that allowed for underneath throws, which we got. We just got to be able to stay on the field because we’re third downs, not putting ourselves in some of those third-and -seven-plus. Obviously, that plays to their benefit, but when you lose a guy like CeeDee, for one, and they can play as soft as they want because just keeping everything in front of them, it’s always going to be tough.”
On not getting the offense going “the way you wanted”
“Yeah, I was definitely surprised. As I said, we got to go down there and cash in in the red zone. Penalty is right there, false starts hurt us, pushed us back there. They scored and go up and we get the ball back with a little bit of time left in the end of the first half, and we don’t convert like we did in the end of last game to give ourselves a chance to kick a field goal. And we come out and three-and-out or maybe got a first down, one first down there. At the start of the second drive, you look up and the game’s pulling away from you. That’s tough when you’re playing an offense that looked like they were getting hot right there. They’ve got playmakers and they’re making plays, and we weren’t able to get them off the field. It’s tough as a unit. It’s tough to play complementary football together, and it’s tough when you’ve got to be one-dimensional on offense.”
On if the Javonte Williams fumble recovered by the Bears in the first quarter “was clean”
“I was so far behind the play; I was sticking a finger up thinking that it was a big play and wasn’t even sure of what happened and honestly still. I haven’t seen the play necessarily. I don’t even know how it went down. I have no idea.”
On the end zone interception
“Good little crossing pattern, play we’re comfortable with. Thought GP [Pickens] was going to come clean. He got bumped up off his route. Almost pushed toward the back of the end zone, and I came back, right? [Cowboys wide receiver Jalen] Tolbert is going to the back pylon. Had a guy in my face, didn’t step into it, throw it well short and probably one of the interceptions of that guy’s year, just got to step into that. On fourth down it’s a throw that I probably would drop like normally you’re making over the top, and I was not trying to throw it out the back of the end zone and left it way short and easy interception.”
On if not scoring was “demoralizing”
“I wouldn’t say anything in this game is demoralizing. It’s hard. It’s frustrating. But I love that. That’s what life’s about, adversity, fighting back. Not being in the best position and trusting yourself and trusting others around you, and as a team, we’ve got to be better in that position. We got to be better. Things get hard. I’m not going to get overwhelmed. It didn’t seem like we could stop them. I believe in our offense, and I don’t think people can stop us. I think you can go back and look at these possessions, we stopped ourselves. Whether it be interceptions, right? Off the hands or my interception late or the fumble early.
“I don’t know if they’ve done a lot to stop us. That’s what’s frustrating. It’s not looking at the other side and being down that they’re not getting stops. It’s more that we’re kicking ourselves and that’s the reason that we’re not converting to touchdowns, it’s the reason we’re not getting first downs, so it has to start there. That’s why I said everybody’s got to look in the mirror and say how can I be better? Because I know we’re capable of scoring. We just got to score like last week, we’re going to do that. I don’t get to play defense. That’s not how this game works and the guys on offense don’t. We’ve got to play offense to the best of our ability regardless.”
This story was originally published September 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM.
