{"id":371625,"date":"2025-12-26T18:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/371625\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T18:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:05:04","slug":"dak-prescott-still-plans-on-playing-in-week-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/371625\/","title":{"rendered":"Dak Prescott still plans on playing in Week 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott took a lot of hits in Thursday\u2019s win over the Commanders and said after the game that he\u2019ll \u201cprobably wake up a little sore\u201d on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The soreness resulting from the six sacks and 11 quarterback hits Washington dealt him on Thursday aren\u2019t enough for him to change his tune on playing against the Giants in Week 18, however. Prescott said before this week\u2019s game that he wanted to keep playing despite the Cowboys being out of the playoff race and he said the same in his postgame comments on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor sure, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascowboys.com\/news\/despite-taking-hits-no-question-dak-prescott-wants-to-play-in-week-18-vs-giants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">no question<\/a>,\u201d Prescott said, via the team\u2019s website. \u201cI love this game, I love any opportunity that I get to play it. That being said, if I get to go out there, I\u2019m going to give it my best, prepare the same way, I\u2019m going to be the same player that you guys know. I understand, the reasons why maybe not, and if I\u2019m approached with that, I\u2019ll handle that then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Brian Schottenheimer would be the person making the approach and he didn\u2019t commit to anything on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s Christmas, I\u2019m going to enjoy Christmas, man,\u201d Schottenheimer said. \u201cI\u2019m going to have some eggnog and I\u2019ll deal with that when I get looking back at the film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys will finish the season at 8-8-1 if they beat the Giants and we\u2019ll find out next week if that\u2019s enough of a lure to send Prescott back out on the field. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott took a lot of hits in Thursday\u2019s win over the Commanders and said after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-371625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}