A head coach who nearly always errs on the side of caution put the play in the hands of his rookie quarterback instead of on the foot of his Pro Bowl kicker.
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The Cowboys can continue to win games if they can play as a team like they did today. “Now, we’re two weeks into this and we’ve got to understand that”. Moon went 73 pass attempts before his first interception and Prescott has not thrown an interception as of yet through 75 pass attempts. Not with a receiver like Dez Bryant and a running back like Ezekiel Elliott. If Garrett is cautiously optimistic on his rookie, Jones can barely hide his excitement.
“I’ve said that from the moment that I was named the starter and he went down”, Prescott said Monday after a Play 60 outing with fourth-graders at Pearcy Elementary.
Tony Romo made the trip to Washington as he recovers from an L1 compression fracture in his back. He has pledged a return, but the end nevertheless seems near for the 36-year-old, who has missed all but four regular-season games the past two seasons. For now, he’s prepared to step back into the shadows once Romo returns. “Probably beginning about right now, it’s up to how you get over in that area in the individual’s situation, his own ability to heal, his own ability to tolerate (pain)”.
It took them until the second quarter, but Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers finally escaped from back-to-back bottlings by the Denver Broncos – in the Super Bowl, and in last week’s National Football League curtain-raiser – to rediscover their loud, proud and thundercloud brand of offence.
Six years ago, Garrett was a beneficiary of Jones’s famed reactionary nature.
Rookie quarterback Dak Prescott played sensational yet again. Alongside Stephen Jones, the team’s top executive and Jerry’s eldest son, influenced disciplined player selections when Jerry wanted to constantly swing for the fences. Elliott finished with 21 carries for 83 yards and one touchdown. Perhaps that’s what Dallas needs most of all right now. In a odd way that very philosophy is what could funnel Garrett toward this next career-defining decision.
“This is Romo’s team”, Prescott told Dallas News’ Brandon George. “Competitive greatness is finishing well in times of adversity and that was definitely a time for us to make a play”. They planned to develop a home-grown quarterback, something Dallas hadn’t done with any success since Aikman. “It’s about them trusting all those other 10 guys out there to make the blocks, to make the catches and get the first down”.
Dak is not Romo, but he is saving the Cowboys in what should already be a lost season.
“It’s unbelievable y’all keep asking me the same question about him”, receiver Dez Bryant said.
Garrett has stepped back from his comments August 25 when Romo was hurt at Seattle that the injury “is not a serious thing”. The Cowboys have to be excited about his future.
“A number of different things came up during the game, and (Prescott) just handles it with poise and composure”.
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Jones wasn’t quite so measured.
