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Does the Cowboys' Dak Prescott Belong in the MVP Discussion? | The Play Sheet

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4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The Ringer’s Ben Solak runs through the tape of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, who's having quite a bounce-back season after last year, when his interception rate was a career high. Dak and the Cowboys offense look dangerous this season, as Dak has elevated his play to sit comfortably alongside the league's other elite quarterbacks. Watch 'The Play Sheet' on YouTube or Spotify every Wednesday at 8 a.m. PT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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