{"id":1111,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1111","headline":"Dak Prescott says Cowboys scrutiny just comes with the territory","dek":"Prescott and CeeDee Lamb insist the 2-4 Cowboys can still turn things around ahead of a Monday night date with the Eagles.","body":"The Cowboys are 2-4 and the noise around them is loud, which Dak Prescott says is just how it goes when you play for Dallas. Speaking with Front Office Sports' Baker Machado, Prescott brushed off the mounting scrutiny on the team and coach Brian Schottenheimer, saying \"that's the territory\" and \"you can't ask for the rain and be mad about the mud.\"\n\nThe pressure has built since the summer, when Prescott declared it \"Super Bowl or bust\" for Dallas, a line that invited plenty of attention once the season started slowly. Schottenheimer has made similar championship-level declarations, and owner Jerry Jones has never shied from a microphone, so expectations in Dallas rarely stay quiet for long.\n\nPrescott, 33, was a fourth-round pick in 2016 and won Rookie of the Year, but his Cowboys tenure has produced just two playoff wins and no trips past the divisional round. Dallas has now dropped back-to-back games heading into a key Monday Night Football matchup against the division-rival Eagles. Despite the rocky start, Prescott and receiver CeeDee Lamb both maintain there is still time for the Cowboys to right the ship this season.","published_at":"2026-10-23T21:48:02.485912+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"Dak, CeeDee: 2-4 Cowboys can still turn things around","url":"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50260535/cowboys-say-turn-things-2-4-start"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Dak Prescott addresses ‘comical’ hot takes about the Cowboys","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/dak-prescott-addresses-comical-hot-143040916.html"},{"outlet":"Awful Announcing","publisher":"Awful Announcing","title":"Dak Prescott addresses ‘comical’ hot takes about the Cowboys","url":"https://awfulannouncing.com/nfl/dak-prescott-addresses-comical-hot-takes-about-the-cowboys.html"},{"outlet":"Front Office Sports","publisher":"Front Office Sports","title":"Dak Prescott: Cowboys Media Scrutiny Comes With the Territory","url":"https://frontofficesports.com/article/dak-prescott-cowboys-media-scrutiny-comes-with-the-territory/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Dak Prescott: Cowboys Media Scrutiny Comes With the Territory","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/dak-prescott-cowboys-media-scrutiny-232305753.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Cowboys Headlines: Pickens limited, under fire from Schottenheimer; Dak's sudden struggles","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/cowboys-headlines-pickens-limited-under-100722694.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://frontofficesports.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/2026-10-19T011744Z_1332644105_MT1USATODAY30127452_RTRMADP_3_NFL-DALLAS-COWBOYS-AT-GREEN-BAY-PACKERS-scaled.jpg?quality=80&w=1024","credit":"Front Office Sports","width":1024},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}