Dak Prescott and the Cowboys saved their finest performance of the 2023 season for their biggest game, cruising to a 33-13 win over the Eagles on Sunday night.
The win moved the Cowboys ahead of the Eagles (via tiebreaker) for the top spot in the NFC East, improving to 10-3 on the season. It also moved Prescott into pole position in the MVP race, becoming the betting favorite following Sunday’s games. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones agrees with that sentiment, telling reporters following their win that Prescott has “become the Most Valuable Player right before our eyes in the last several months.”
“I thought this was a monumental game for him tonight,” Jones said of Prescott’s performance. “Everybody that follows the NFL and follows sports knew that he had a lot of the expectation as to how he was going to perform and how he was going to meet this challenge. The ever-overhang of ‘Well, did he do it with the right competition?’ I don’t mean to sound condescending. That’s fair.
“He did it tonight, and he did it in a very efficient way against [a team] as good as we’ll play.”
Prescott might not have put up gaudy numbers on Sunday, completing 24 of 39 passes for 271 yards and two touchdowns. But he led an efficient performance for the Cowboys’ offense as they scored on seven of their nine possessions. Dallas also went 9 of 16 on third-down conversions, helping it hold the ball for nearly 37 minutes of Sunday’s game. Prescott also played relatively clean, with his only miscue coming in the middle of the quarter when he was strip-sacked for a scoop-and-score.
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But Jalen Carter’s touchdown off Prescott’s fumble only cut the Cowboys’ lead to 24-13 as Dallas held a relatively comfortable cushion for much of Sunday night.
Following Sunday’s game, the Cowboys rank fourth in total offense and lead the league in scoring. Jones thinks that Prescott doesn’t necessarily need to be named MVP for him…
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