Dak wants Super Bowl title, legacy 'be damned'

FRISCO, Texas - Dak Prescott is entering his 10th play arsenic the Dallas Cowboys quarterback.

Only Troy Aikman has had a longer tally astatine the presumption successful franchise history. Aikman and Roger Staubach are besides the lone 2 quarterbacks that person won a Super Bowl with the Cowboys.

Prescott, who turns 32 adjacent month, is determined to articulation them but not to cement immoderate benignant of legacy.

"Yeah, I privation to triumph a championship," Prescott said erstwhile the Cowboys concluded their offseason programme Thursday. "The legacy, the things, immoderate comes aft I decorativeness playing volition instrumentality attraction of itself. I privation to triumph a championship. Be damned if it's conscionable for my legacy, oregon if it's for this team, for my idiosyncratic being, for my sanity. Yeah, the bequest volition instrumentality attraction of itself. I person to enactment wherever my feet are."

Prescott has delivered the Cowboys to the playoffs 5 times. The Cowboys person had the champion grounds successful the league once, his rookie twelvemonth successful 2016, and played connected wild-card play the different 4 times but person not gotten to the NFC Championship Game.

Prescott has a 2-5 playoff record.

For the Cowboys to person that chance, Prescott, who was the runnerup successful the MVP voting successful 2023 erstwhile Dallas finished 12-5 for the 3rd consecutive season, has to stay healthy. He has missed games owed to wounded successful 4 of the past 5 seasons, including 9 past twelvemonth aft needing country to repair a hamstring avulsion arsenic the Cowboys finished 7-10.

He went done the full offseason programme without an contented and volition beryllium afloat cleared for interaction erstwhile grooming campy begins successful Oxnard, California, connected July 22.

"These OTAs, conscionable the mode that I've been seeing minicamp, the connection with (head manager Brian Schottenheimer), with the quarterbacks oregon the backmost room, conscionable a batch of bully things," Prescott said. "A batch of truly bully things that person maine successful a large place. I'm healthy. Excited arsenic hell."

Schottenheimer was asked if determination are circumstantial statistic oregon metrics to measurement Prescott's occurrence and helium simply said, "wins." Their conversations person not talked astir bequest astatine all.

"We conscionable speech astir what it takes to win, enactment ethic, the sacrifice you person to marque to win," Schottenheimer said. "That's applicable successful immoderate tract you're successful ... This is 1 of the hardest moving players I've ever been around, Dak."