{"id":504711,"date":"2026-03-05T06:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/504711\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T06:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:22:08","slug":"dak-prescott-cowboys-can-make-a-big-jump-by-adding-veteran-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/504711\/","title":{"rendered":"Dak Prescott: Cowboys can make a &#8220;big jump&#8221; by adding veteran talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cowboys owner Jerry Jones didn\u2019t use the term \u201call in\u201d this offseason, but he did say last week at the Scouting Combine that he was ready to \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jerry-jones-vows-to-bust-the-budget-to-improve-defense-with-free-agents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">bust the budget<\/a>,\u201d while being \u201caggressive\u201d in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Jones also wants to add players ready to play now.<\/p>\n<p>Dak Prescott expressed excitement at the possibility of adding veteran defenders to a unit that set a team record for most points allowed in a season. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeck yeah, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascowboys.com\/news\/dak-prescott-hoping-free-agency-gives-cowboys-a-big-jump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">most definitely<\/a>,\u201d Prescott said Wednesday, via Tommy Yarrish of the team website, \u201cespecially when he said . . . no redshirts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a coach [Brian Schottenheimer] in his second year. We had some ups and downs and shined some good moments last year. This is the year that you make a big jump, and getting big-time players who can help immediately is a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys are expected to pursue linebackers in free agency as they switch to the 3-4, and Nakobe Dean could be an early target. Cowboys new defensive coordinator Christian Parker was on the defensive staff in Philadelphia, where Dean played the past four seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys owner Jerry Jones didn\u2019t use the term \u201call in\u201d this offseason, but he did say last week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-504711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504711","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=504711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}