{"id":393377,"date":"2025-11-21T00:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393377\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T00:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:03:12","slug":"dak-prescott-jalen-carter-tight-lipped-for-spitgate-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393377\/","title":{"rendered":"Dak Prescott, Jalen Carter tight-lipped for &#8216;spitgate&#8217; rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763683392_907_archer_todd.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Todd ArcherNov 20, 2025, 06:11 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Dallas Cowboys. Archer has covered the NFL since 1997 and Dallas since 2003. He joined ESPN in 2010.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FRISCO, Texas &#8212; As the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b0fc8fb7-9dbe-e574-9008-6f0ee7c6b234\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-cowboys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> get ready to play the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d1a9b001-1df7-fbd7-ae4c-6ca7065286ec\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-eagles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> Sunday at AT&amp;T Stadium, they fully expect to see defensive tackle <a data-player-guid=\"7ee5f263-e374-346d-bf67-b4c305cf3ed4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4685759\/jalen-carter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Carter<\/a> play a lot more than in the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>Carter was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46160393\/eagles-jalen-carter-spits-cowboys-dak-prescott-ejected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ejected before the first snap<\/a> of the game for spitting on Cowboys quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"5f09781b-6b0b-7325-049b-a91e60d794e6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2577417\/dak-prescott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dak Prescott<\/a> as they two exchanged words. Carter was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46209167\/nfl-says-jalen-carter-ejection-serves-suspension-spitting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">given a one-game suspension<\/a>, but it was considered served since he sat out the entire game.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>Asked what he will say to Carter on Sunday, Prescott said, &#8220;Depends on what he says first. But probably something friendly. Get on his good side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carter was not in a reminiscing mood Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not worried about that. We&#8217;re here where we are right now,&#8221; Carter said. &#8220;And at the end of the day, everyone is playing so that&#8217;s all we&#8217;re worried about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/recap\/_\/gameId\/401772510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">won the Week 1 meeting<\/a> 24-20 despite not having Carter. Cowboys Pro Bowl left guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4568652\/tyler-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyler Smith<\/a> was next to Prescott but didn&#8217;t see the spitting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just remember them throwing a flag,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;We were really in the huddle he was kind of like talking to [rookie guard <a data-player-guid=\"c29b3fdb-69ff-3ffe-8d3f-f816b9589110\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4685263\/tyler-booker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Booker<\/a>] or whatever and then Dak kind of stepped up and said something. Then, you know what happened, happened. I didn&#8217;t see it happen though until the ref said something and Dak said something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carter&#8217;s ejection did not alter the Cowboys&#8217; plan, according to offensive coordinator Klayton Adams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had the openers planned the way that we wanted to run them, and we called the same stuff that we were going to call,&#8221; Adams said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if there were really any adjustments. You always have a plan for a player like that, but I don&#8217;t think you go into it, &#8216;Oh, let&#8217;s throw this stuff out.&#8217; It was designed the way it was designed, so I don&#8217;t know that anything really changed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys have a lot of respect for Carter. What type of difference does he make?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A big difference,&#8221; coach Brian Schottenheimer said. &#8220;He&#8217;s a really good player and he&#8217;s packaged in there with some really good players. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4381558\/jordan-davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jordan Davis<\/a> is obviously an incredible player as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4242975\/jaelan-phillips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jaelan Phillips<\/a>, I mean, the front &#8230; this is a hell of a defense. I think they&#8217;re best in the league. It&#8217;s going to be really tough, but we love that challenge and we think we&#8217;re pretty good, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Tim McManus contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd ArcherNov 20, 2025, 06:11 PM ET Close Todd Archer is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":393378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-393377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115584762902403097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393377","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=393377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}