'Andy's been Andy': How Dallas Cowboys will forge ahead this NFL season without franchise QB Dak Prescott

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“I feel like we still have a lot of good football left, and I’m anxious to go show that the rest of the season.”

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was back at the Star for medical treatment early Thursday morning, just a few days after surgery for a. Teammates and coaches were thrilled to catch a smile on the face of the player whom they’d last seen carted off the field of AT&T Stadium, his ankle in a sterile splint, tears streaming down his face.

“When Coach McCarthy came in, he obviously really was fired up about Dak,” Jones said Friday on Dallas radio station 105.3. “But at the same time, his goal with us when we started working through the roster, what his strategies were at Green Bay and how he had success — his thought process was one, he’d like to draft one and other: get a more veteran-type quarterback.

“He's coming in here to win every time he comes into the huddle,” said receiver Michael Gallup, who caught 19- and 38-yard passes from Dalton on the game-winning drive. “That's the first thing he says: I came here to win. I came here to play. So, let's do it.Gallup joins a long list of teammates and coaches who want to be clear: There is no replacing Prescott.

What the Cowboys are losing in Prescott is a leader who started 69 consecutive regular-season contests, during which he completed 66% of his passes for 17,634 yards, 106 touchdowns and 40 interceptions. He scored 25 more touchdowns running and receiving . Through roughly four and a half games this year, Prescott led the league in passing yards .

“I’m being myself, I’m being how I was, I was running scout team so the same way I was in the huddle there is the same thing I’m bringing to the first group running our offense and everything. I’m just trying to be myself throughout that whole process. I think that’s what everybody means by that.”“He has a very, very smart way of getting his point across in as few words as possible,” McCarthy said. “And Andy's a guy that everybody loves.

 

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