Dak Prescott is the NFC offensive player of the week

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Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was slumping during the second half of the season, but he found a pretty good groove in the final three weeks of the season.

That run included last Saturday’s performance against the Eagles. Prescott was 21-of-27 for 295 yards and five touchdowns in a 51-26 win that sends the Cowboys into the playoffs with a 12-5 record.

It was the second time in three weeks that the Cowboys put up more than 50 points. On Wednesday, Prescott was also named the NFC’s offensive player of the week for the second time in three weeks.

Prescott is 73-of-104 for 851 yards and 12 touchdowns over the last three games. The Cowboys will be hoping that kind of production remains in place against the 49ers this weekend.

22 responses to “Dak Prescott is the NFC offensive player of the week

  1. Hilarious. This is worse than a preseason award considering the Eagles had ZERO defensive starters play in the game.

  2. Dak Prescott playing against an Eagles defense that was resting several key starters. At least Debo Samuel, and Rashard Penny had great performances in meaningful games.

  3. lol please. he padded his stats against the WFT and Philadelphia practice squads and barely eeked out a win over the injury-riddled arizona team. one and done. book it.

  4. Oh dear Lord! With all due respect to Dak Prescott, the Cowboys played all of their offensive starters against the Eagles back-ups and practice squad players! There should be a huge asterisk next to those stats! Seriously…if anyone actually watched that game, you would have seen Dak completing passes to guys who weren’t even covered! It was a joke. The Eagles “starting defense” isn’t even that good. The defense they put out there on Saturday night wasn’t even an NFL defense.

  5. For those ripping Dak and the Cowboys for playing starters, Dallas actually got/kept a #3 seed with this win. If they win, they will more than likely go to Tampa instead of Green Bay the following week.

    And oh yeah, they put up equal stats when they trounced the Eagles starters earlier in the year.

  6. 18 of the 22 Eagles starters were inactive for the game.

    2 that were ascitve (T.J. Edwards and Jordan Mailata) didn’t play.

    The 21st (Jason Kelce) played one snap.

    The 22nd (Devonta Smith) played 14 snaps.

    The defense Dak went up against was composed of all backups and practice squad guys.

    The Eagles backups were tied with the Cowboys starters 17-17 with less than 2 minutes to go in the 1st half… that is an embarassment not a reason to give an award.

  7. Can’t help but think there’s a 49er, Seahawk, Ram, or Bear that isn’t feeling slighted right now. You have the award to a guy that played 2nd and 3rd stringers. I don’t care what happened earlier I. The year when he played then, this is player of the current week not the third week. Poor judgement and another reason the NFL is going downhill.

  8. Can’t help but laugh at all the excuses for the Eagles poor performance in a regular season game.
    If the Eagles chose to lose by playing sub par players in the regular season then that is on them.
    Take the L and quit whining.
    Anyway their excuse holds no water because they got destroyed in their 1st game with the Cowboys too.
    Maybe they wanted a built in excuse for not playing starters knowing those would have been destroyed also making them look like a playoff pretender.

  9. If he earns one after this Sunday I’ll be duly impressed. If he takes the gas pipe (like he normally does under pressure), he becomes a higher paid Tony Romo.

  10. This is totally ridiculous, Play against a third string and he does great things, yet he hasn’t beaten a top tier team this year, SPORT WRITERS time for a long vacation.

  11. mutantjerryjonesvariant says:
    January 12, 2022 at 10:54 am
    Can’t help but laugh at all the excuses for the Eagles poor performance in a regular season game.
    If the Eagles chose to lose by playing sub par players in the regular season then that is on them.
    Take the L and quit whining.
    Anyway their excuse holds no water because they got destroyed in their 1st game with the Cowboys too.
    Maybe they wanted a built in excuse for not playing starters knowing those would have been destroyed also making them look like a playoff pretender

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    Too bad Dak can’t throw 5 TDs against teams without Covid scrubs.

  12. This is ridiculous — he was playing against a bunch of backups. Meanwhile Antonio Gibson was absolutely shredding the Giants defense, racking up 146 yards and a touchdown while averaging an incredible 7 yards per carry. Antonio should have been given the award.

  13. First, no one on the Eagles was whining, so not sure where this comment comes from. Second, Garoppolo was WAY more deserving of this award coming back from a 17-point deficit to win in overtime against the Rams. Finally, the Eagles scrubs did plan to a tie with almost 2 minutes left in the half. Ridiculous award…

  14. Then the Eagles scrubs got steam rolled by Dallas scrubs in the 4th Quarter.
    Guys I didn’t even know were on the Cowboys roster were running over Eagles defenders and scoring TD’s.
    Ito Smith? Jaquan Hardy?
    No. That performance tells everyone who the Eagles are.
    Detroit Lions had no problems with Green Bays starters playing, neither did the Jaguars whine about playing the Colts starters.

  15. That’s so Dallas. Another hollow award that they’ll be bragging about for years to come. Who decides on these awards, Skip Bayless?

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