Cowboys Comfort: QB Dak Prescott On How Coach Mike McCarthy 'Will Play-Call The Game'
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott will have a different offensive group around him this upcoming season.
Kellen Moore is out as offensive coordinator, replaced by Brian Schottenheimer, and head coach Mike McCarthy is now the new play-caller, something he did in Green Bay to good effect.
With many moving parts and a new coaching ideology and scheme, how is Dak handing the new voices in his ear?
"Things have been great, honestly," says Prescott. "The coaches are working together, you can see the chemistry, you can see how together they are and making sure they are giving us everything."
Well, that sounds promising. The most significant change for Dak will be parts of McCarthy's West Coast offense that he will look to implement into the current scheme.
Based on quick, short, crisp throws as an extension of the run game, much of this is to ease the offensive burden on Prescott's shoulders by getting his playmakers in CeeDee Lamb, Brandin Cooks and Tony Pollard out in space.
But while that sounds good on paper, actually doing it to a high-enough level where opposing NFL defenses have problems is another thing entirely. Still, Dak seems well on the way to understanding McCarthy's offense.
"Right now, it's about getting comfortable at the plays we want to run," Prescott said. "Taking as many reps as we can, getting the plays, learning the plays, making the changes we have on the plays that we already have, and really just finding out how Mike is going to call this game."
McCarthy is taking over an offense that, under Moore, in his four years, had one of the most explosive units in the NFL. In three of his four years, Moore's offense ranked 6th in the league or higher regarding points per game (finished 1st in 2021, 31.2/per game). Additionally, Moore's offenses never failed to average under 24.7 points per game.
Those are big shoes to fill for McCarthy, but with several weapons more than capable of replicating that, along with his own offensive wrinkles, the Cowboys, led by Prescott, are doing everything they can to hit the ground running come Week 1.
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