{"id":624402,"date":"2025-12-24T07:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/624402\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:58:12","slug":"this-is-our-job-dallas-cowboys-qb-dak-prescott-refuses-to-cheat-the-game-after-being-eliminated-from-the-2025-nfl-playoffs-nfl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/624402\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is our job\u201d: Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott refuses to cheat the game after being eliminated from the 2025 NFL Playoffs | NFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u201cThis(Image via Getty: Dak Prescott and Jerry Jones) At the pre-game conference after the Week 15 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers, which eliminated the 2025 NFL<\/a> playoff chances, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott<\/a> said he loves his job. Last year, when he didn\u2019t play, he realized that playing cannot be taken for granted. He said every game is played to win, enter the playoffs, or reach the Super Bowl, but that might not always happen. He expressed gratitude for the opportunity to play and said he would never pass it up, no matter what.Prescott said that when players enter the gridiron, they control what they can, which is always the team\u2019s effort to win. He expressed gratitude for being able to play in the NFL and said it was fortunate to get that chance, especially with his teammates. The team won\u2019t be the same next year, so it\u2019s about enjoying every game.<\/p>\n

Dak Prescott wants every Dallas Cowboys player to celebrate and give their best in the remaining games because the team may not be the same next year<\/p>\n

After losing to the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 16 and being eliminated from the 2025 NFL Playoffs, Prescott said at the postgame press conference that, given the sacrifices and hard work of each player, he didn\u2019t want anyone to cheat the game. He said Cowboys defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa summed it up best. Nothing was promised, and the Cowboys still had two weeks left. Prescott added that he wanted each Cowboys player to give their best in every game and cherish the moments they spend together on the gridiron because the team may not be the same next year.<\/p>\n

Dak Prescott pregame and postgame interview<\/p>\n

From this: \u201cThis is my job, this is what I love to do,\u201d Prescott said via NFL Network on December 18. \u201cSitting out last year and the times before, you don\u2019t take getting to play this game for granted. You play every game to win, you play every game to get a chance to go to the playoffs or play in the Super Bowl, and unfortunately that\u2019s not always the case. If that\u2019s not the case when we take the field or whatever it may be, I\u2019m thankful for the opportunity to play this game and I\u2019m not going to ever pass it up.\u201d And this: \u201cWe got to go out and control what we can control,\u201d Prescott said. \u201cAnd right now, that\u2019s our effort and that\u2019s trying to get a win. We\u2019re professionals, and we\u2019ve got a job to do at the highest level. This is NFL football, and we\u2019re all fortunate to get a chance to play this game, particularly with the teammates we have in this locker room. It won\u2019t be the same next year, so it\u2019s about going and enjoying every moment.\u201d To this: \u201cThis is our job, we\u2019re blessed,\u201d Prescott said via FOX Sports: NFL on X on December 22. \u201cYou know how hard we\u2019ve worked and the sacrifices we\u2019ve got to even get to this league, to get to these ten years in for myself, to be healthy. I said it to the team, and I think it was Friday when we\u2019re breaking down or Saturday, whenever, it\u2019s like this game has given us so much, how could you cheat it? I think Osa [Odighizuwa] said it best when he just broke down the team right there after the game, we got two weeks left and nothing\u2019s promised in life, right? Football careers [—] sure aren\u2019t, so nothing in life is like, let\u2019s enjoy these two weeks, cherish these moments, these practices, this time together with the men and brothers that we love and we\u2019ve got an opportunity to play with. This team won\u2019t be the same next year, so let\u2019s enjoy this and give it our best.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones takes the blame for the 30-year Super Bowl drought in the postgame press conference and praises Brian Schottenheimer for his efforts<\/p>\n

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones admitted at the postgame press conference that Cowboys management played a major role in the team\u2019s failure to reach a conference championship in 30 years. He expressed his disappointment. However, he commended head coach Brian Schottenheimer\u2019s efforts as a first-time coach.\u201cI\u2019ll admit that the Cowboys management has played a big role [in the 30-year Super Bowl drought],\u201d Jones said at the postgame press conference via Garrett Podell of CBS Sports. \u201cBut seriously, I\u2019m very disappointed that the way we\u2019re structured, and my role, puts us here tonight. I\u2019m tremendously disappointed. Really, I don\u2019t want to be trite, but the same way that I might have looked at the 30 years before I bought the Cowboys. That was then. This is now. I\u2019ve never looked at something because I haven\u2019t done it in the past as something that\u2019s not possible for us to do. We\u2019re qualified, and we\u2019ve got as good a place to be as you\u2019d probably like to have with where we are with our draft picks. I like the job [Brian] Schottenheimer\u2019s done this year. I think he\u2019s been outstanding. He\u2019s a first-year [head] coach, and he\u2019s covered a lot of ground, not only his duties as head coach, but his duties on the offense and his duties over on the defense as well.\u201d”I’m pleased with what we have in Dak [Prescott], very pleased going forward,” Jones told Patrik Walker of the Dallas Cowboys. “Nothing we’ve done so far this season gives me anything but optimism about going forward at one of the key, if not the key position.”Also Read: \u201cTriggering day for many reasons\u201d: Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott pays a humble tribute to defensive end Marshawn Kneeland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image via Getty: Dak Prescott and Jerry Jones) At the pre-game conference after the Week 15 loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[2886,90789,1370,257,7,2883,262,6,92138,84,83985,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-624402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-playoffs","8":"tag-brian-schottenheimer","9":"tag-cowboys-eliminated","10":"tag-dak-prescott","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jerry-jones","14":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-player-interviews","17":"tag-nfl-playoffs","18":"tag-nfl-playoffs-2025","19":"tag-philadelphia-eagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115773486224712846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}