Playing quarterback is a tough-crowd business in the NFL. Win a game and your performance will be highly scrutinized to see how you performed regardless. But lose one and chances are, you'll be perceived as the guy to blame. Especially if the stat sheet has you at multiple interceptions.

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott knows that.

"I take every loss on the chin," Prescott told reporters following a heartbreaking defeat to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday. "I think that's my job as a quarterback, to put us in positions to win, and eliminate the mistakes and the potential chances to allow them to score after turnovers."

Prescott led the Cowboys to a 14-point lead in the first half with a near-perfect game. At the half, he had one single incompletion. He went 15-of-16 for 137 yards and two touchdown passes.

"I don't know if he could have played much better in the first half," Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy told reporters postgame.

Even in the second half, the Cowboys quarterback had a more-than-decent game but a third-quarter interception set up the Jaguars in enemy territory. After scoring a touchdown off of the pick, it was a three-point game.

"I've just got to not even try to throw the ball right there, feeling the guy grab me and just tuck the ball and take the sack and just move on, move on to the next play," Prescott said about the Cowboys' first interception.

"That's that balance […] It's tough treading that line, trying to make a play, trying to be aggressive, and at the same time not putting the ball at risk."

It's not the first time the Cowboys quarterback talks about finding that balance. This season, he's adopted a way more aggressive approach to his game. Multiple times, he's assured the media and fans that he won't stop taking risks. But he intends to get better at managing them.

He better do. Prescott has 11 interceptions in just nine games and his INT percentage is the highest of his career (3.9%). That mark leads the NFL this season, per Pro Football Reference.

The second interception, which bounced off of Noah Brown's hands and resulted in a walk-off touchdown for the Jaguars in overtime, is tough to put on Dak. But the Cowboys quarterback takes it to the chin, as well.

"Whether it's a tipped ball, whether it's an unfortunate interception, whatever it is. They all suck, and at the end of the day, I've got to do a better job, and that's where it is," Prescott added postgame.

"It's a feeling that I don't like, and I've got to learn from it and do better, put the ball in better positions, and be smarter with it."

It's a feeling Cowboys Nation doesn't like either, I'm sure.

And although a poor defensive effort was the main reason behind the loss to the Jaguars, how well Dak Prescott balances that aggression when passing the ball will be one of the biggest storylines to watch in the final three weeks of the regular season. And of course, the playoffs, which the Cowboys anticlimactically secured on Sunday.

You can't eliminate one or two throws from a player's performance in a game. That's unfair. But there's not much else you can find in Prescott's play that rises any sort of red flag. He's playing high-caliber football for the Cowboys.

But one or two errant throws can toss all of that out of the window. Finding that "balance" he speaks of could make this an elite offense.

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