There’s no time for celebrating Sunday’s huge game, however, as they move right ahead to playing the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday in Dallas’ annual Thanksgiving game.
“It’s vital, you’ve got to reset,” Prescott said. “Yea, that was a great win, great, tough win, emotional coming back from down 21, but it was only to be celebrated that night to be honest with you… Especially on the short week, you’ve got to move forward, you’ve got to get on your film, you’ve got to find a way to crunch five days into two, two and a half, three days.”
It’s not easy to compress that much information for a quick-turnaround game against any opponent, but much less when it’s the Kansas City Chiefs, who played in Super Bowl LIX against the Eagles, who Dallas played on Sunday.
“We know how talented and good this team is coming in,” Prescott said. “We know how important it is to start fast, and that’s our focus. However, if that doesn’t happen, you’ve got to be resilient, you’ve got to show competitive stamina. At the end of the day, it’s a four-quarter game and that is what the goodness of last week does.”
All of Kansas City’s losses have come in one-possession games. While their 6-5 record may not be indicative of it, the Chiefs’ offense has continued to play well, and it’s led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who Prescott has a lot of respect for.
“Everything in his game,” Prescott said of what he respects about Mahomes. “The way he plays it, at the end of the day obviously talent jumps out, but you watch a guy who plays with pure passion, who’ll do anything it takes to win. On the sideline, he’s not necessarily always running out of bounds, trying to make the extra play, never giving up on a play, has the ability to throw it back across his body. He does it all right. What I respect most is just his will to win, you see it, he’ll do anything and everything it takes.”