‘It Hurts!’ Cowboys QB Dak Prescott on What ‘Will Eat at Me Forever’

“It's unfortunate. It sucks. But it's part of it and hate to see all those guys go and us not win. That's what will eat at me forever." - Cowboys QB Dak Prescott.

FRISCO - “It hurts.”

For an observer of the NFL, with all the money and fame involved, and with a football game now conveniently framed as a TV show, the human efforts and emotions that truly fuel a football team are often unknown.

Dak Prescott is here to explain.

"It's tough," Prescott said of this week’s Dallas Cowboys release of close friend Ezekiel Elliott. “Playing the game with a brother. Being able to start this NFL career and share so many memories and grow up as men. Grow up as men with this organization; I really can't imagine taking the field without him. …

“I've talked to him. I'm hurt. I'm sure he is.”

Prescott and Elliott both came to Dallas via the 2016 NFL Draft and became fast friends. But now Elliott moves on, as have coaches like 

Kellen Moore and Doug Nussmeier, two Dak mentors now with the Chargers.

Prescott was asked in the wake of the changes about the feeling being “bittersweet.”

"It's tough to say it's ‘sweet’ right now, honestly,” Dak said. “That's just what those guys mean to me. You know what I mean?" 

But, Prescott added while speaking said at an event for the Children's Cancer Fund, for which he serves as co-chairman with Troy Aikman, “I know the ‘sweet’ is coming. I know it's coming.

“Change is good … but it's tough for me to see in this moment,” he said. “But I know it's coming and excited (for) when it does."

The Prescott/Elliott Cowboys went to the playoffs four times in their seven years but never got over the divisional round hump. If Elliott is to do that now, it’ll be with a new team.

But more importantly for me just to be able to support him. I know he's

Prescott said he cannot “sugarcoat” the franchise’s title failures and talked of the “urgency” to change that. But at this time and in this moment, reflection seems fitting.

"As you get older and you see that happen more and more with guys you're closer with and friends, this becomes more of a reality of getting old, I guess,” Prescott said of the goodbyes. “It's unfortunate. It sucks. But it's part of it and hate to see all those guys go and us not win. That's what will eat at me forever."

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