Dak Prescott: 'Pour Honey on Me!' as Dallas Cowboys Ready to 'Poke the Bear' at Eagles

Dak Prescott: 'Pour Honey on Me!' as Dallas Cowboys Ready to 'Poke the Bear' at Eagles

ARLINGTON - Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has a penchant for phrasing things in an entertainingly odd way. But following his attempt to be careful in previewing next week's showdown with the rival Philadelphia Eagles, Jerry's top employee Dak Prescott just "out-odd'ed'' the boss.

Following Dallas' lopsided 43-20 win over the Los Angeles Rams on NFL Sunday Week 8, Prescott - who'd already spent a good portion of his postgame presser here at AT&T Stadium talking about Week 9 at Philly - was informed that Jones had moments before carefully stated that he doesn’t want to “poke the bear” when it comes to talking about the powerhouse Eagles.

Prescott's response to the poke-the-bear analogy was ... unusual.

Pour some honey on Dak?!

“Pour honey on me!'' Dak said. "I always say that. If you see me and a bear in a fight, pour honey on me.''

Wait ... what? Dak "always says this''? We've been breathlessly chronicling the exploits of the Cowboys' headline-grabbing QB for eight years now ... and we are not familiar with him ... or with anybody else ... ever saying any such thing.

"Pour honey on me!''? What does that mean? That Prescott and the 5-2 Cowboys are ready for the fight against the 7-1 Eagles? So it seems ...

"You can poke it,'' Dak continued. "Whether we talk or not, we know what’s ahead of us. (The Eagles are a ) great opponent.''

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Now that point, we do understand. What Prescott is saying is that regardless of what bulletin-board material might be produced out of the Dallas camp, from Jerry on down, it doesn't change the excellence of what the Eagles have and can continue to accomplish.

Pour some honey on it. Invite "the bear'' into the fight. And then ... we suppose ... "lick'' him?