Dak Prescott Says ‘It’s Our Turn’ After Watching Rival Eagles Win Super Bowl

Dak Prescott #4 of the Dallas Cowboys looks on prior to the game against the Washington Commanders at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Jan. 5, 2025. Sam Hodde/Getty Images

The Dallas Cowboys went 12-5 in three straight seasons from 2021 to 2023, with those 36 regular-season wins being the most in the NFC and the second-most in the NFL. That only trailed the Kansas City Chiefs (37 wins), who won two Super Bowls during that span. However, Dallas took a major step back in the 2024 NFL season, going 7-10 and missing the playoffs, which led to the franchise replacing Mike McCarthy with his former offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer as head coach.

Despite the regression, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott doesn’t see his team as being far off from divisional rival, the Philadelphia Eagles. Just hours after Philly hoisted the Lombardi Trophy after defeating those Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX, Prescott said the 7-10 Cowboys, with a first-time head coach, are very close to the newest Super Bowl champions.

“I feel like we’ve competed with the Eagles and beat them for the most part when we’ve played them,” Prescott said at a fundraising event on Tuesday in a video posted on X by Jon Machota, who covers the Dallas Cowboys for The Athletic. “I don’t want to say, ‘Check the record,’ when the other guy is holding the trophy, right? So, credit to them. They’ve earned it, and they deserve it by all means. But, yeah, [we’re] very close.”

The Eagles beat the Cowboys in both divisional games this season by a combined score of 75-13, but there is a caveat in that Prescott didn’t play in either after his season-ending hamstring injury. His comment that the Cowboys have “beat them for the most part” does carry some weight when only considering games in which Prescott has played. He is 9-3 in his career against the Eagles in games in which he took the majority of snaps.

Prescott is aware that being competitive, or even having the advantage, over a Super Bowl champion doesn’t necessarily mean your team is Super Bowl-worthy. The Tennessee Titans are one of the few teams that have a winning record over Patrick Mahomes but have been nowhere near to being Super Bowl contenders over the last few years.

Thus, Prescott also referenced another NFC East rival in the Washington Commanders—who made a surprising run to the NFC Title Game—in suggesting that Dallas can compete with anybody in the NFL.

“Even watching the NFC Championship and those two teams [Washington and Philadelphia], teams that we battle against each and every year a couple of times. As I said, [I] feel confident that we’ve gotten the better part each and every time. But just seeing [the Eagles Super Bowl win] in such a dominating fashion, credit to them. It’s our turn, and it’s on us,” Prescott said.

The 2025 NFL season will mark the 30^th anniversary of the Cowboys’ last Super Bowl victory and also their last trip to The Big Game. Not only have they not appeared in a Super Bowl since then, but they haven’t even made it as far as the NFC Championship Game over this stretch. This 29-year drought without a Championship Game appearance is the longest active one in the NFC and the third-longest in the NFL, trailing only the Miami Dolphins and Cleveland Browns, both of whom have 32-year droughts.

Prescott made his comments on the same day that Kellen Moore, who formerly served as Prescott’s backup quarterback, then quarterbacks coach, and then offensive coordinator, was named as the New Orleans Saints’ head coach. Moore was heavily linked to the Dallas opening, but instead, Prescott will play for another one of his former coordinators in Schottenheimer.

The quarterback is certainly hoping that his first season under a new coach goes much better this time around than it did last time. When McCarthy became the Cowboys’ coach in 2020, Dallas suffered through a 6-10 season, which is the worst mark during Prescott’s nine seasons with the team. The quarterback infamously broke his leg five games into that season, and now he’s coming off another season-ending leg injury after tearing his hamstring in Week 9.

He said he’s “getting there” in terms of rehab and is looking forward to increasing his activity in the coming weeks. He’ll also look to avoid the offseason drama that surrounded him last year when his contract situation was a hot topic in and around Dallas. Prescott signed a four-year contract on the eve of the 2024 season, which gave him a deal with the highest average annual value in NFL history.

However, devoting so much money to one player means the Cowboys don’t have as much money elsewhere, and they are actually one of a handful of teams entering the offseason over the salary cap. Thus, they could be extremely limited in free agency and still need to sign edge rusher Micah Parsons to a long-term deal.

The Eagles nailed their 2024 offseason moves, such as landing Saquon Barkley, Zack Baun, and C.J. Gardner-Johnson, which certainly enabled them to hoist the Lombardi Trophy. Now, the Cowboys will have to do the same this year—with limited capital—to fulfill Prescott’s prophecy of being close to a Super Bowl.