{"id":302875,"date":"2025-10-14T14:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/302875\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:54:12","slug":"mailbag-championship-window-for-prescott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/302875\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailbag: Championship window for Prescott?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Editor&#8217;s Note: Time to check the mail! The DallasCowboys.com staff writers answer your questions here in &#8216;Mailbag&#8217; presented by Miller Lite.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious what you think about Dak Prescott and his &#8220;championship window.&#8221; Meaning, how long do the Cowboys have to ride Prescott while he&#8217;s still playing at an elite level? He&#8217;s 32 and has had several major injuries. I&#8217;m concerned that his decline will be coming sooner rather than later, and the Cowboys will once again have wasted the prime of an elite player. <strong>\u2013 Bryan Woodward\/Oklahoma City, OK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve never really looked at that way. To me, the variables that are involved in winning championships are countless. And to be honest, I always think it&#8217;s silly to say the Cowboys &#8220;waste&#8221; the opportunity for these players, especially the quarterback. If you think about it, the quarterback is the one position that is tied to the record. That&#8217;s what defines them and their overall legacy.<\/p>\n<p>So to say the Cowboys are wasting this time with Dak doesn&#8217;t make sense. If Dak&#8217;s legacy is tied to this, then it means he&#8217;s playing a major part in the successes or failures of this team. Now I&#8217;m not saying Dak is the reason they haven&#8217;t gone there. Overally, the team hasn&#8217;t been good enough. In the playoffs, they haven&#8217;t won the big games. Part of that is on Dak, and he&#8217;s the first to admit that.<\/p>\n<p>Same goes for Romo, Witten and D-Ware. Those are players that have been mentioned as great careers that were &#8216;wasted&#8217; without a title. I know D-Ware won in Denver, but the others obviously didn&#8217;t. But I just don&#8217;t see it that way. The Cowboys have surrounded Dak with a lot of talent and right now he&#8217;s playing great football. But they&#8217;re still 2-3-1 right now and that&#8217;s good enough. Good thing is &#8211; Dak knows it and will strive to play even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Editor&#8217;s Note: Time to check the mail! The DallasCowboys.com staff writers answer your questions here in &#8216;Mailbag&#8217; presented&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":302876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,1292,29774,77890,65211,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-302875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-news-all-news","11":"tag-news-kurt-daniels","12":"tag-news-mailbag","13":"tag-news-nick-eatman","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115373098022234727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}