Cowboys Dak Prescott Reveals 'Difference' in Prep for Giants in Week 1

“I feel great about where we are,” Dak Prescott says of the Cowboys and the new "Texas Coast Offense. “Much different than last year.''

FRISCO - Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott will get no snaps in any of the games in this preseason, a process that concludes with a Saturday night visit from the Las Vegas Raiders. And as a result, Dak says, he's all the better prepared for the real games, as Dallas opens the NFL regular season at the New York Giants on Sept. 10.

“Understanding that I wasn’t playing in the preseason,'' Prescott said, "allowed me and watch some of their past games, our history with them. You’ve got to prepare. It’s Game 1. You want to start off hot and start off the right way, and when you’ve got the time, you’ve got to use it.”

Prescott - who is 10-2 lifetime against the Giants, so a "hot start'' seems viable - was also healthy all summer for the first time in four years. No rehab. No setbacks. That also helped giving him "the time'' to do things right.

And it is "right'' to sit out starters, as coach Mike McCarthy has done with the Cowboys all summer long. "Risk aversion,'' the coach calls it, believing that this team's veterans can be fully prepared without any traditional "dress-rehearsal'' exhibition work.

All in all, Prescott - who hasn't played in the preseason since 2019 - said he feels “much different” about where he and the Cowboys are compared to a year ago.

“I feel great about where we are,” Prescott said. “Much different than last year.''

Is that a dig at the overseeing of former offensive coordinator Kellen Moore? Let's frame it a different way: As an endorsement of McCarthy's decision to take over play-calling and retool the attack into the West-Coast-style "Texas Coast Offense'' ... while also repeating our report that Prescott is privately bothered by having to shoulder public blame for offensive mistakes that were the result of the goofups of others.

"We’re in a much better place right now than we were at this time last year with the installation and the details of everything,'' Prescott said. "It’s about making sure we’re crossing our T’s and dotting our I’s in this next week before we go in.”

Prescott has allowed himself more time this summer to "cross T’s and dot I’s'' because of the Cowboys' decision to free him from playing in preseason games. The hoped-for byproduct: A "hot'' Prescott-led Cowboys team on a Sunday night at New York.

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