After the Dallas Cowboys vs the Denver Broncos game last night, lots of mayhem and action occurred. One thing that didn’t happen though was Dak Prescott. Will he play in the next preseason game?
It’s always a given during the preseason that teams don’t play their starters throughout the whole game. With that said, it’s not unusual for a team to put out their starters on the first drive or two. This was a different story for Dallas though.
After all, we didn’t see Russell Wilson play for the Broncos last night either, so why would we see Dak Prescott? There would be no point in starting Dak in any of these preseason games. This would not only be to protect him from injury, but also for him to understand his receivers.
When Prescott is on the sideline, he can see his players on offense perform from a different point of view. This gives him a better understanding of how his receivers and line function from the opposite team’s view. After all, new receivers like Jalen Tolbert need to demonstrate to Dak how they run routes and such.
Prescott will most likely not be on the field in the next two preseason games. The coaches want him to stay healthy and maintain a focus on his goal, which is observing his team.
I never felt like installing your starters in the preseason was a smart move. The obvious reason is to avoid injury, but also to have your starter examine how not to play, and how to play. As we all saw, the Cowboys did not have a good game last night so this should be an example and lesson to the starters on what not to do during the regular season.
If the coaching staff wishes to continue this route, then we will not see Prescott play.
As for Dak…everyone has known forever the part about avoiding injury but you lost me on the “also for him to understand his receivers”. What? Keep up the work. Keep trying.
Yeah, that made no sense. If Dak’s going to get an “understanding of his receivers”, you want that to be from the perspective that he’s going to be seeing when it matters…from the pocket. He’ll still get more than enough time watching them from the sideline. He needs to play at least a couple of series in the second game. Dak is not the type of QB that can come into the season “cold” and ball out. He needs to build trust with them in an actual game against an actual opponent that he hasn’t seen hundreds of times in practice with pass rushers having to lay off him.