Does the Cowboys' Dak Prescott Belong in the MVP Discussion? | The Play Sheet
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🗓️ 6 December 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy. I'm Ben Solak and this is the play sheet. It's a weekly pod we do on Wednesdays and it is a video |
| 0:09.3 | podcast. You got to click into the Spotify app. You got to watch the video. We're doing |
| 0:12.6 | Dak Prescott film today. It's going to be great. The opening script, Dak Prescott, playing |
| 0:17.4 | pretty good ball. This past off season, there was so much just consternation |
| 0:22.4 | about Cowboys quarterback, that Prescott. He led Ligion Interceptions. His long-time offensive |
| 0:26.8 | coordinator, Kellynmore, was like leaving slash mutually parted ways, slash was like, he was gone. |
| 0:31.9 | And head coach Mike McCarthy, who's not exactly, like, renowned for creative modern play calling, |
| 0:38.5 | he was going to take charge of the offense. |
| 0:40.4 | Now, in the offseason, |
| 0:42.3 | both McCarthy and owner slash general manager slash team overlord Jerry Jones |
| 0:46.5 | talked about the importance of cutting down on Prescott's interceptions. |
| 0:50.4 | And this year, he's throwing a lot of interceptions. |
| 0:53.3 | So whatever they did worked, right? Wrong-ish. Yeah, we worked. Okay, like, he's throwing a lot of interceptions. So whatever they did worked, right? |
| 0:55.0 | Wrong-ish. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, we worked. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay, it's better. |
| 0:58.0 | Prescott was throwing an interception on 3.5% of his dropbacks last season. |
| 1:02.0 | That's down to 1.3% this season. |
| 1:05.0 | Big drop. |
| 1:06.0 | The funny thing is, at the time then, and even more so now, last season was very clearly an aberration. |
| 1:14.1 | It was a blip on the radar. |
| 1:15.4 | Look at every year in Prescott's career before 2022. |
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