As the Cowboys gear up for their matchup with the Seattle Seahawks tonight, the NFL announced their November players of the month.
Both Dak Prescott and DaRon Bland won the award for their outstanding play over the last month.
Bland captured his record-setting fifth pick-six on Thanksgiving against the Washington Commanders.
These are back-to-back months on the defensive side for the Cowboys.
Micah Parsons won September’s Defensive Player of the Month, and Brandon Aubrey won October’s Special Teams Player of the Month.
Bland is doing something that nobody has ever seen in this league before.
He now holds a record that may never be broken. He is on pace for the even bigger award at the end of the year—the Player of the Year award.
It is the first time Bland has won this award, and after Trevon Diggs was lost for the year, I am sure nobody saw this coming.
This is also the first monthly award for Prescott.
He is the first offensive Player to win the award for the Cowboys on the offensive side of the ball since 2014.
He completed 102 of 149 passes.
During the month, Prescott threw the most touchdown passes (13) in the NFL and the most passing yards (1,298) in the NFC and had a passer rating of 121.7.
Cowboys PR notes that this year’s Dallas team is the first to have players on both sides of the ball win the award in the same month since the 2018 Los Angeles Rams.
That team beat the Cowboys in the playoffs and went onto the Super Bowl. Just throwing that out there.
The Time is now
Yes, Prescott is playing the best football of his career, but he said this week that he hasn’t done anything yet, and it is fantastic to hear him say that.
It is great because you can see he doesn’t care about the heater he’s been on; Prescott knows he will be judged over this next stretch of games and in the playoffs.
His biggest goal is to win a Championship, and to tell you the truth, that is all I want also.
Although this game against Seattle is still in November, it starts the toughest stretch of the season for the Cowboys.
Nobody will remember what he did against these below-average teams if he doesn’t continue his play starting tonight against another NFC playoff team.
The Eagles will then come to town for the first game in December, followed by a trip to Buffalo and Miami, before returning home to host the Lions in week 17.
If the Cowboys can go 4-1 in those games, I can promise you everyone will start taking this team seriously.
Dallas are putting teams away that they should, and doing it to the point where 90% of the starters haven’t had to play in the 4th quarter.
Both Bland and Prescott had a great November, let’s finish out the month with a big win tonight and get ready for the home stretch in the month of December.
Go Cowboys.