Dak Prescott had about as good a Sunday as a quarterback can have, and he still spent part of it telling the Dallas Cowboys not to get comfortable. His 12-yard touchdown pass to CeeDee Lamb with 40 seconds left finished off a 34-30 comeback win over the Houston Texans, and he was already talking about Thursday when it was over.
“There’s nothing like winning,” Prescott said after the game. “I want to say it fixes all the problems, but it doesn’t. It makes you feel good at least for a day or so. But at this point, we got to turn the page and get ready for Thursday.” He was blunter about what he doesn’t want to see next. “We can’t sit here and have some winning hangover so early in the season,” he said.
Prescott wants the Cowboys to stack wins
The Cowboys’ previous game explains the tone. Dallas lost 34-31 to the Ravens after a late trip to the 2-yard line ended with a tying field goal, and Baltimore won it with a 56-yard kick on the final play. Prescott said he was embarrassed, and he brought that finish up again Sunday. “I know how and what we’re capable of doing, and when we didn’t do it last week, down in the red zone, plenty of time and opportunities and we don’t get it done, we settle for a field goal, we put our defense in a terrible situation by our lack of execution,” he said.
Sunday’s ending went the other way. Houston took a 30-27 lead with 2:23 to play, and Prescott answered with an 11-play, 74-yard drive that took 1:43. It was the 27th game-winning drive of his career. He completed 32 of 45 passes for 335 yards, and Lamb caught 17 of them for 189 yards, one short of Jason Witten’s team record.
Dallas has a lot to clean up on a short week. The Cowboys trailed 16-6 at halftime, and the defense allowed 397 yards and 30 points, with C.J. Stroud throwing for 347 yards. The Buccaneers, who fell to 0-4 on Sunday, visit AT&T Stadium on Thursday at 8:15 p.m. ET. “So now it’s about stacking these wins with great momentum and just belief in the team that we’ve created,” Prescott said.
