'I Have The Pen & Paper!' Dallas Cowboys Dak Prescott: A 'Championship' MVP QB Says Coach Mike McCarthy
It was a game in which that many thought would be a measuring stick for Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. After beating up on the "lesser teams," the Seattle Seahawks presented Dak with his biggest challenge of the season since the Week 5 debacle against the San Francisco 49ers.
Well, if it was a test, Prescott already had the answers going in in what became a 41-35 victory as he torched the Seahawks. He threw for 299 yards, three touchdowns, and zero interceptions while completing 70.7 percent of his passes.
And as long as Dak is test-taking, it's a good thing he's equipped with the metaphorical tools.
“People can say whatever they want,'' he said after pushing his Cowboys to 9-3. "I have the pen, I have the paper and I’m the one writing.''
Along with Dak "authoring his own story'' and giving his MVP credentials a nice push, coach Mike McCarthy was dishing out the praise for his quarterback.
“Dak’s playing great ball,” McCarthy said. “It’s fun when you’re in this rhythm, he has such great command, and it's just the connection with his teammates on the field, at the line of scrimmage, we’re getting in and out of things seamlessly.
"We’re playing at a really good pace, and that’s how we want to play. We want to attack, and you can only do it with a championship-caliber quarterback, and Dak is that guy.”
Late in this game, after the offense scored another field goal to put Dallas up 41-35, the Seahawks got the ball with a chance to win.
Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott continued his white-hot form against the Seattle Seahawks.
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As the defense was readying themselves to take the field, Micah Parsons was left in awe as Prescott fired up the defense to go out and finish the game.
"I'm like, 'Damn, that (bleep) made me blush a little bit, that's my quarterback right there,'" Parsons said. "That's always exciting, that energy he brings, that fire. He's at a different pace.
"This is the type of quarterback that's going to win us the Super Bowl."
Everyone is aboard the Dak train, and most are just catching up to what he has been producing lately.
Since that fateful loss to the 49ers, Prescott's stat line makes for impressive reading as he is completing 70 percent of his passes, has thrown for 2,173 yards, has 23 total touchdowns (21 passing), two interceptions, and has a 6-1 record.
And by any metric, that is "championship-caliber" quarterback play for the guy holding "the pen and the paper.''
