{"id":449937,"date":"2026-09-28T07:34:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T07:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449937\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T07:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T07:34:45","slug":"dak-prescott-frustrated-by-loss-to-ravens-weve-got-to-put-the-game-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449937\/","title":{"rendered":"Dak Prescott frustrated by loss to Ravens: &#8216;We&#8217;ve got to put the game away&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the third and goal throw where Prescott tossed the ball into the stands, he says he was throwing the ball away. It appeared that Pickens, who ran a fade two plays early and on this play came back to the pylon, may have had a chance to catch a go-ahead touchdown, and it&#8217;s a throw Prescott wishes he had back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I probably should&#8217;ve just sat on it a little bit longer. Sank on my back foot and just put it on that front pylon. Definitely should have.&#8221; Prescott said.<\/p>\n<p>Prescott finished the night 25\/40 for 276 yards and a touchdown, adding 19 yards on four carries. Dallas&#8217; offensive night was bookended by trips deep into opposing territory where the Cowboys couldn&#8217;t find the end zone, as they settled for three on their opening drive as well.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, in retrospect, four more points on that opening drive would&#8217;ve gone a long way for the Cowboys tonight. Still, they had their chance to make up for it at the end of the game and couldn&#8217;t execute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anytime you get down there, and you don&#8217;t score, you&#8217;re frustrated,&#8221; Prescott said. &#8220;But that doesn&#8217;t matter as long as we score at the end of the game. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m as frustrated as I am right now. That was the last chance that we had the ball in our hands, it was a chance to win the game. That&#8217;s the National Football League. Everything up to that point doesn&#8217;t matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then after we kick the field goal, same thing goes for the Ravens. Everything up to that point didn&#8217;t matter. And they executed their play, they made the field goal and they won. That&#8217;s the beauty of this game, and that&#8217;s the heartbreak of it when you&#8217;re on the other side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With a 10-hour flight ahead of them back to the United States, Prescott and the Cowboys now head into a short week with another road trip coming up against the Houston Texans next Sunday. How does Dallas make sure this loss doesn&#8217;t deflate them going forward?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just got to lean on our brotherhood, we&#8217;ve got to lean on the family that we&#8217;ve created, the trust,&#8221; Prescott said. &#8220;This is one game. It&#8217;s early in the season, thankfully. We&#8217;re 1-2. We would love to be 2-1 going home, we&#8217;re not. It&#8217;s a long season. Just the maturity of understanding that, that this game can derail you, is going to be the beneficiary of us not allowing it to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just being aware of that, understanding, going back to work. I&#8217;ve said it before, after a loss, you have no choice but to lock arms and run back into the fire and trust what you&#8217;ve done and your process. So hopefully it&#8217;s one of the best things that happens for us. Hopefully we can look back at this in a month or a couple months and say it was good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That said, it doesn&#8217;t make the digesting of the loss any easier for Prescott.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This one hurts,&#8221; Prescott said when asked how he&#8217;s learned to quickly flush tough losses. &#8220;It&#8217;s just getting back to work, being candid with you, just getting back to work. But it sucks. It sucks. There&#8217;s no ifs, ands or buts about it. Knowing you had a game, you could have won a game, you don&#8217;t, you tie, hoping for overtime, we put our defense in a terrible position and those guys, good offense, a hell of a quarterback, MVP quarterback, makes a throw. And young kicker comes in there and kicks a game winning field goal. It&#8217;s the NFL, so just getting back to work is the only way to flush it. Unfortunately, we only get to do that for a couple days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys now fall to 1-2 on the season, and will land back on Dallas early on Monday morning and will begin preparation to face the Texans, who have started the season 0-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the third and goal throw where Prescott tossed the ball into the stands, he says he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[114,102,104,103,153265,1090,3592],"class_list":["post-449937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dak-prescott","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-featured-balvsdal-2026","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-tommy-yarrish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449937","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=449937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}