{"id":102556,"date":"2025-12-28T09:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T09:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102556\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T09:24:17","slug":"dallas-cowboys-news-dak-prescotts-reason-for-wanting-to-play-week-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102556\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys news: Dak Prescott\u2019s reason for wanting to play Week 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

And they let him know all about it following their 30-23 win<\/a> over the Washington Commanders<\/a>. On Thursday, the Cowboys went for it six times, and they moved the chains each of the, setting a new franchise-high since at least 1991. Here\u2019s what players had to say about it postgame.<\/p>\n

Cowboys appreciate Schottenheimer\u2019s trust<\/p>\n

Multiple Cowboys players praised Schottenheimer\u2019s fourth down decision-making postgame, pointing to the implicit trust on the players behind every attempt.<\/p>\n

Cowboys\u2019 second-team All-Pro lineman Tyler Smith appreciated the fact that Schottenheimer hasn\u2019t given up on the offense despite past struggles on fourth down.<\/p>\n

\u201cShout out to Shotty,\u201d Smith said<\/a>. \u201cI think that really shows the mentality of Shotty as a head coach and the trust that he has in us to get that yard. It\u2019s easy, when you don\u2019t get that fourth-and-one\u2014there have been games where we haven\u2019t converted\u2014to give up on that, but he hasn\u2019t. That just shows his belief in us as a unit.\u201d<\/p>\n

For WR Jalen Tolbert, who stepped up with two fourth down conversions himself in his first game in weeks<\/a>, had a similar reaction to Schotty\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt speaks to the trust that he has in us and in the players he has on the field,\u201d Tolbert said. \u201cWe know when he\u2019s going for it, he\u2019s doing it for a reason, and we\u2019ve got his back just like he\u2019s got ours. So we just continue to keep chipping away and continue to put ourselves in positions to make those plays.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dak Prescott reveals it was the plan going into Christmas Day<\/p>\n

To make Schottenheimer\u2019s approach even better, Prescott revealed it was the plan entering Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was big,\u201d Prescott said of the conversions<\/a>. \u201cI think just knowing going into this game, knowing in these short-yardage situations, just talking with Shotty, we were going to be going for it. A few of those third downs, he even told me, \u2018Hey, you\u2019ve got two downs here.\u201d<\/p>\n

I think that allows you to set up third down and feel confident about it. Then just the play calling. Obviously, we\u2019ve got to make throws and execute, but he did a great job on all those fourth-down calls.\u201d<\/p>\n

To Prescott\u2019s point, most of the fourth down conversions worked near perfectly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think any of them were dicey except maybe one to (RB Javonte Williams),\u201d Prescott added. \u201cAnd honestly I could have taken the QB sneak there. That was the only one. But for us to go six for six was huge in this win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And they let him know all about it following their 30-23 win over the Washington Commanders. On Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,932,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-102556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys-news","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}