{"id":445716,"date":"2026-09-24T01:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445716\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T01:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:22:15","slug":"bill-belichick-praises-underappreciated-cowboys-qb-dak-prescott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/445716\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick praises &#8216;underappreciated&#8217; Cowboys QB Dak Prescott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dak Prescott\u2019s achievement of becoming the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cowboys\u2019 all-time leader<\/a> in passing touchdowns did not go unnoticed by one of the greatest coaches in NFL history.<\/p>\n<p>During the podcast, Belichick, now the head coach at the University of North Carolina, was asked whom he would name the outstanding player of Week 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll go with Dak Prescott,\u201d Belichick responded. \u201cYou know, Prescott\u2019s had a tremendous career \u2014 maybe underappreciated at times \u2014 but he\u2019s been a pillar of that organization for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday\u2019s game against the Washington Commanders, Prescott set the Cowboys\u2019 franchise record for passing touchdowns when he connected with CeeDee Lamb on a 24-yard throw in the fourth quarter. With that touchdown, Prescott surpassed Tony\u00a0Romo&#8217;s previous franchise record of 248.<\/p>\n<p>In the Cowboys\u2019 37-20 victory at AT&amp;T Stadium, Prescott delivered an impressive performance, throwing for 279 yards and completing 26 of 36 passes with four touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Prescott faced Belichick three times while he was the head coach of the New England Patriots. The Dallas quarterback won two of those matchups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDak became the all-time touchdown leader for the Cowboys. That\u2019s a pretty big statement there,\u201d Belichick said.<\/p>\n<p>Belichick, who won six Super Bowl rings as the head coach of the Patriots, praised the Cowboys quarterback without hesitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you\u2019ve got to recognize what he\u2019s done \u2014 not just (on Sunday), but throughout his entire career,\u201d Belichick said. \u201cIt\u2019s impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dak Prescott\u2019s achievement of becoming the Cowboys\u2019 all-time leader in passing touchdowns did not go unnoticed by one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1638,88346,88776,88229],"class_list":["post-445716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-brief","tag-tp-att-stadium","tag-tp-dak-prescott","tag-tp-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445716","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=445716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}