Yahoo Autos Dak Prescott is setting the wrong kind of NFL record for Dallas Cowboys | Opinion
The Pro Football Hall of Fame routinely collects various items for display, and what needs to be included now is a bronze die cast of Dak Prescott’s right arm.
From the shoulder down to the fingernails, the whole thing needs to be on display in Canton. Maybe for study at Johns Hopkins med school, too.
On first glance Dak’s 58 pass attempts in the Dallas Cowboys’ season opener merely answered any concerns if he was “all the way back” from both his ankle surgeries, and the sore shoulder that kept him out of preseason games.
On second glance, those 58 attempts look potentially historic. And potentially troublesome. Maybe even alarming.
Because math is not favorite subject, I called my good friends at the Elias Sports Bureau to see if what Dak is doing is historic.
According to Elias, Dak Prescott is the first passer in NFL history to “have 55-or-more pass attempts in at least three games of a four-game span.”
Of course, this record includes games all the way back in 2020, but the trend is the trend. The trend is the Cowboys love Dak slinging it, and when he slings it too much they lose.
Under head coach Mike McCarthy and offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, the Dallas Cowboys are not an Ezekiel Elliott team but a Dak Prescott team.
In Dak’s four seasons and 64 regular season games under Jason Garrett as the head coach, Dak had two games where he attempted at least 50 passes. One of those went to overtime.
He has started six games under McCarthy, and thrown at least 50 passes three times. One other start Dak attempted 47 passes, and another he suffered a season-ending injury.
This means a few things:
1.) The Cowboys are behind, and have no choice but to throw the ball a lot.
In this three-game “stretch” of Dak throwing it more than 50 times, the Cowboys fell behind by at least one score. They are 0-3 in these games.
In the Cowboys’ 40-39 win over the Falcons in Week 2 of the 2020 season, they fell behind 20-0 and Dak threw 47 passes.
