ESPN analyst makes strong comment about Dak Prescott's MVP chances
Dak Prescott hasn't had it easy as quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. But, that comes with the territory when running the show that is America's Team.2023 hasn't been short of criticism, but we're also seeing Prescott play the best football of his career. There's still a month left in the regular season, but the Pro […]
Dak Prescott hasn't had it easy as quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. But, that comes with the territory when running the show that is America's Team.
2023 hasn't been short of criticism, but we're also seeing Prescott play the best football of his career. There's still a month left in the regular season, but the Pro Bowl signal-caller showed up and showed out in what was the biggest game of the Cowboys' season to date. And, the end result was a big win over the Philadelphia Eagles and the seizing of the NFC's No. 1 seed.
Prescott deserves praise. And a lot of it. He's receiving it too, as he's currently the leading favorite to take home the NFL's MVP award. He's arguably playing better than any other quarterback out there and his play has been so damn good, ESPN's Ryan Clark says his confidence almost extends into arrogance.
"Dak Prescott is playing with such an extreme level of confidence, it's actually bordering on arrogance," Clark said on Monday morning's edition of Get Up. "It's where we used to hear Aaron Rodgers in postgame press conferences, where everyone was, just as Stephen A. would say, "bloviating", about what they'd accomplished, and then they'd just look forward to the next game – because they knew what they [had] done. That's why Dak said, 'We gotta run our race. We gotta play the rest.' Because his film is doing the talking."
Prescott is as close as ever to becoming an NFL MVP, but the Cowboys still have a long way to go
Last week, Prescott was the +225 favorite to take home the MVP hardware. After Sundays win over the Eagles, his odds increased to where he's now the favorite at +150, per Betonline.ag.
The next three games are either going to cement his status as MVP or it's going to sink it. The Cowboys have matchups against the Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins, and Detroit Lions before closing the year out against the Washington Commanders.
That crucial three-game stretch also features two road games right off the bat. It's not easy, at all, to win in Buffalo during this time of the year and while a trip to sunny Miami doesn't sound bad in December, it's a second-straight road trip against a very good opponent – that's always a tough task to overcome in the NFL.
Still, if Prescott can manage to play well and the Cowboys can go 2-1 during that stretch, at worst, then he'll add even more to his MVP résumé. It certainly helps that two of the final four games are AFC matchups, but still, the Eagles beat both the Bills and the Dolphins earlier in the year, so if it comes to down to the common opponent playoff tiebreaker, the 'Boys are going to need dubs against those two teams in order to win the tiebreaker.
In other words: Every game still matters for the Cowboys and they can't afford to slip up.
