Cowboys BREAKING: 'Coach' Dak Prescott Is Play-Caller vs. Raiders

For the Saturday night preseason finale at AT&T Stadium against the Raiders, the new Cowboys play-caller Mike McCarthy won't be in charge of that department. ... He's handing the play sheet to "Coach Dak Prescott.''

ARLINGTON - Want a sign of trust and comfort between Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, head coach Mike McCarthy and the new "Texas Coast Offense'' that's been installed?

For the Saturday night preseason finale here at AT&T Stadium against the Las Vegas Raiders, the new play-caller McCarthy won't be in charge of that department. ...

He's handing the play sheet to "coach Prescott.''

McCarthy has spent all offseason urging his QB to take command of the offense and, throughout the installation period in the offseason, the Cowboys' head coach thought the seven-year veteran "knocked it out of the park."

"He's built for this," McCarthy said recently. "He's taken complete ownership of the offense and you have to. He's the one out there playing."

Well, not in this game. Dak hasn't played all preseason, and against the Raiders, it'll be the soon-to-be-cut Will Grier in charge ... with the just-traded-for Trey Lance joining the QB room behind No. 2 guy Cooper Rush.

So what might see see out of "coach Prescott''? He talked of how he'll do it at QB ... so we assume that applies here ...

“I keep saying ‘aggressive nature,’ but it’s aggressive in the play calls with a great purpose in it,'' he said recently. 'Hey, if that’s not there, you know the reads, just get down to it.' Very clear and concise about getting to a play that I feel most comfortable with.

McCarthy likes to ease his quarterbacks into taking full control of the offense, but wants to have a changing of the guard because his signal-callers ultimately have "the best seat in the house" — they're the ones under center and have to make the correct checks.

"You got to be able to take advantage of things, but, most importantly, we have to train in that realm," said McCarthy, the overseer of the installation of the new "Texas Coast Offense,'' a version of his old West Coast Offense in Green Bay. "For [Prescott] to train and perform in that realm, he has to take ownership of it, and I think all the quarterbacks have done a really nice job of that."

Prescott was at camp getting the experience now in camp of having control over getting everyone lined up, reading the defense and changing the play if necessary - not to mention being in control of teammate Micah Parsons during an Oxnard brawl - and it'll pay dividends the first time he steps to the line of scrimmage Week 1 against the New York Giants. ... with "complete ownership.''

But for now, want Dak to "own it''? Given this preseason setting, there is no more better - or fun - way to show that off.

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