{"id":413870,"date":"2026-08-22T14:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T14:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413870\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T14:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T14:18:17","slug":"dallas-cowboys-news-dak-prescott-says-team-needs-to-take-the-next-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413870\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys news: Dak Prescott says team needs to take the next step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Downs has been practicing every day of this offseason against the likes of CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens, maybe the most potent pass-catching duo in the league. But he also lined up for several plays against two-time Pro Bowler Puka Nacua in the Cowboys\u2019 joint practice with the Rams last week. And although the Saints\u2019 Chris Olave got the better of him in this week\u2019s scrimmage, the first-round draft pick knows being thrown into the fire so early is exactly what he needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThat\u2019s where confidence actually comes from, just being in the situations, doing it actually at the level that you\u2019re going to have to do it in the game,\u201d Downs told reporters this week as the Cowboys prepared to close out the California potion of their camp. \u201cIt\u2019s all just trying to get me to where I need to be: my best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Downs has been practicing every day of this offseason against the likes of CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,932,104,103],"class_list":["post-413870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys-news","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413870","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=413870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}