There is some truth in that. After Kellen Moore left for the LA Chargers, Mike McCarthy took control of the offense, removing the easy buttons and turning Dallas’s system into a high degree of difficulty, precision-based offense, just the kind Prescott likes. It demands perfection.
And in the early stages of the season, signs of trouble were buried beneath the rubble. The Cowboys couldn’t scheme open explosive plays, instead relying on Prescott to march the offense down the field one steady drive at a time. When you can’t produce offensive gains in big chunks, great defenses can take advantage. It’s asking a lot of a quarterback to be perfect on 10- to 14-play drives against the Niners or Philadelphia Eagles.
But there was noise in those figures. Now that Dallas have played a softer schedule, the numbers have evened out. They’re now back to their perennial top-five spot in explosive plays with Prescott atAdding more sizzle to the offense is the Cowboys’ best hope of matching up with the best in the NFC: hit a couple of 20-plus yard plays a game, and bank on their all-world defense to take the ball away on the other side. That was the plan against the Niners – and the result was a mess. But it remains the best formula for this team to make a run in the postseason.
Prescott will be the headline act in any postseason failure. But talk of moving on from him at the end of the season is foolish, even if they have another disappointing playoff defeat. He is playing as well as he has at any point in his career; he should be closer to MVP talk than exit rumors. If Dallas listen to daytime carnival barkers, there will be suitors lined up throughout the league willing to take Prescott off their hands, and the Cowboys would enter a period of self-imposed quarterback purgatory. the helm.
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