Confidence in Dak Prescott is slipping for a faction of the Dallas Cowboys fanbase.
The quarterback has long been polarizing both locally and nationally, and Sunday’s terrible performance against the 49ers only gave fuel to his detractors. It’s for good reason. Though the 42-10 loss isn’t entirely on Prescott, he was just 14-of-24 in the air for 153 yards, one touchdown and three interceptions.
Leading up to the game, the Cowboys didn’t hide from the fact that they viewed the meeting as a measuring stick game. In such a case, there’s reason to be concerned.
“I’m not panicked, but the gap is – when something tells you what it is, don’t try to dream that it’s something else,” Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said Tuesday in his weekly appearance on Shan & RJ. “What I’m trying to say is we can do better than what we did out there Sunday night. That’s a given, we can do better, we have the potential to do better. We have the preparation to do better, we didn’t do it at all, to be trite about it, Sunday night.
“Do we have the quarterback? Let me be very affirmative, I completely believe that we have the quarterback that can take us where we want to go. Do we have the coaching staff on both sides of the ball, we certainly do. Did Sunday reflect that? No.”
The Cowboys offense has undergone a flurry of changes over the years. There are skill players who have come and gone, offensive coordinators who have been hired and fired. Meanwhile, Prescott has yet to lose his job, and the results year after year ultimately have been the same.
But Jones’ confidence in Prescott isn’t wavering, even after Sunday.
“The results are very obvious, we haven’t won a Super Bowl,” Jones said. “We’ve had good games over the years and we have had some bad games, do you know any team that hasn’t had that happen to them? Now consequently, I will say that we haven’t gotten our big years when we should have. We’ve been real close a few times and haven’t gotten our big years. …
“Dak Prescott is a quarterback that can get us to the Super Bowl. That’s the way that’s gonna be. We have other quarterbacks on that roster, and players that certainly (are capable) if something should happen to Dak. But I want to be real clear, Dak is very capable of taking this team where we want it to go.”