Cowboys' $240M star Dak Prescott admits to crying over horrendous season as team faces constant mockery

Here travel the tears. 

Dallas Cowboys franchise backmost Dak Prescott admitted conscionable however atrocious his team's failed season has made him consciousness astir himself. 

Prescott told The Dallas Morning News this week helium couldn't clasp backmost the emotion oregon the tears erstwhile helium sat down and realized conscionable however atrocious his squad truly is.

"The different day, aft the game, I guess, it each conscionable deed me," Prescott said of the acquisition soon aft his squad was blown retired by the Houston Texans Monday night. "Boom, right. A mates of tears came down.

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"This is going to hurt. It's going to suck astatine times. You conscionable person to recognize this is 1 of the moments that it does. I don't privation thing close present different than to fto it suck. It's knowing and being capable to dependable that, 'Yeah, I'm blessed to beryllium wherever I'm at.'"

Dallas Cowboys backmost Dak Prescott connected the seat against the Atlanta Falcons successful the 4th fourth astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium.  (Brett Davis/Imagn Images)

The 31-year-old, two-time NFL playoff crippled victor has been retired for the play since injuring a hamstring successful Week 9 against the Atlanta Falcons. Prescott says astir each the tendons connecting his hamstring to his pelvis tore off, and determination is lone 1 left. 

"It started to assistance disconnected the bony adjacent more," Prescott said. "That 1 was doing each the work, and present it was compromised. Hell, I had a week of not adjacent playing football, conscionable walking and mean question and that was tearing it."

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Prescott underwent season-ending surgery, which was announced by proprietor Jerry Jones Nov. 12. In Prescott's absence, backup backmost Cooper Rush has lone made things worse for the spiraling Cowboys. The squad is connected gait for its worst play successful 35 years. 

They person conscionable 3 wins. And if they don't triumph astatine slightest 2 of their past 7 games, it volition beryllium their worst winning percent successful a play since their one-win run successful 1989. 

The team's 3-7 commencement is its worst since 2020, and Prescott, statistically, was disconnected to 1 of his worst starts arsenic a passer. With 8 interceptions successful 8 games, Prescott recorded the worst passer standing and second-worst interception percent of his vocation successful a azygous season.

Dallas Cowboys backmost Dak Prescott (4) reacts aft being sacked by San Francisco 49ers antiaircraft extremity Nick Bosa, left, during the archetypal fractional successful Santa Clara, Calif., Oct. 27, 2024.  (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)

And it each started close aft Prescott signed the astir lucrative declaration successful NFL history. His representatives announced helium agreed to a four-year, $240 cardinal declaration conscionable hours earlier the play opener against the Cleveland Browns Sept. 8. 

Now, galore astir the NFL and sports media person utilized the Cowboys nonaccomplishment arsenic a springboard for comedy. 

Former Broncos Super Bowl Champion and existent ESPN big Shannon Sharpe blasted the Cowboys connected his latest occurrence of the "Nightcap" podcast. 

"I would’ve near the stadium with a container implicit my head. Ain’t nary mode you’ll spot maine leaving the stadium erstwhile I got bushed similar that. After I’ve gotten bushed similar that each game. … And you bash this?" Sharpe said.

"It’s disrespectful. It’s disrespectful to the fans who wage their hard-earned money. But you cognize what, it couldn’t hap to a amended franchise. Because each that proprietor bash is tally his rima and speech astir what they’re gonna do. … And each their players do, due to the fact that they instrumentality it from the owner, is tally their rima — and they ain’t won canine crap. None of them."

The Denver Broncos' Shannon Sharpe (84) successful enactment against the Kansas City Chiefs successful 1996. (Damian Strohmeyer/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)

Legendary NFL backmost Peyton Manning was 1 of the astir salient figures to measurement in. During a spot hosting the Country Music Awards Wednesday night, Manning joked that Prescott isn't the lone Cowboy to outcry this year, pointing to proprietor Jerry Jones.

Manning and CMA co-hosts Lainey Wilson and Luke Bryan made a notation to "Cowboys Cry Too," Kelsea Ballerini's deed opus with Noah Kahan.

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"But capable astir Jerry Jones," Manning said. 

ESPN prima Stephen A. Smith said Tuesday helium had President Biden connected his caput erstwhile helium watched the Dallas Cowboys proprietor speech to reporters aft the team's nonaccomplishment to the Houston Texans.

Smith added that the Cowboys person been truthful atrocious this year, helium can't observe it arsenic effusively arsenic helium usually might. They're truthful atrocious it makes him "sad," helium said. Smith said players similar Micah Parsons look similar they are astir to "see a therapist" due to the fact that they're "depressed." 

"I’m getting very, precise disquieted astir Jerry Jones due to the fact that the lone happening that’s worse than the team’s play is his property conferences, oregon immoderate you privation to telephone it, erstwhile helium is successful beforehand of the reporters, wherever helium says 1 happening aft different aft another," Smith said. "I find myself reasoning astir Joe Biden earlier helium backed retired of moving for re-election."

Even Cowboys Hall of Famer and three-time Super Bowl champion Troy Aikman suggested caput manager Mike McCarthy volition beryllium gone aft this year. 

Dallas Cowboys caput manager Mike McCarthy connected the sideline against the Atlanta Falcons during the 2nd fractional astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium Nov. 3, 2024. (Dale Zanine/Imagn Images)

"Mike McCarthy’s a bully shot coach," Aikman said during ESPN's broadcast of the Cowboys' nonaccomplishment to the Houston Texans Monday night. "He’s proven that astatine Green Bay. He’s proven it here. You triumph 12 games 3 years successful a row, you’re doing thing right. But helium didn’t get a declaration hold aft helium had done that. It’s hard to ideate him getting 1 now."

But adjacent with each the atrocious property and losing, Prescott inactive says this twelvemonth has been "one of the best" of his beingness disconnected the tract due to the fact that helium hasn't fto the team's failures bring down his spirits. 

"Off the field, it's been immoderate of the astir joyous times I ever could person imagined, dreamed of. Having a child, getting engaged, starting a family. But, then, connected the shot field, it's astir apt been arsenic pugnacious of a play arsenic I've ever had. I'd astir apt accidental the toughest."

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