“I’m very ready,” he said. “After the last few years, understanding our team and knowing that we have a team that can compete going into this season, I wanted to put myself in this position and stay every moment.” But now… That's what's coming to us, and we have to fight each game with the same attitude we had going into this game and the same attitude we've always had. For every household approach.
“…In that sense, tomorrow is not promised.…We must give our all in every moment.”
Indeed, in the regular season finale against the Washington Commanders, they stymied their divisional foes to the tune of 38-10 to sway their fate in the playoffs, and suffered yet another defeat by the Philadelphia Eagles (who arrived nonetheless). I didn't need it. that.
“I talked about it a few weeks ago, it's about running our own race and controlling what we can control,” Prescott said. “There was a period in the second half of the year where we didn't respond the way we wanted and lost a few games in a row, but we were able to come home and win that game, get back in the race and win the division. I knew it was important to finish.
“…We finished things our way, according to our expectations and according to our standards.”
As mentioned above, the road to the NFC Championship now goes through Dallas. [and San Francisco]and this creates a huge advantage for the Cowboys considering they have won 16 straight games in Arlington and are the only team in the NFL to go undefeated at home in 2023.
But while that's true, the Cowboys aren't taking anything for granted.
“The atmosphere that Cowboys fans have created over the last two years has been huge,” Prescott said. “You can do this. [though]: You can't rely on it. We have to rely on preparation. We have to study them and focus on playing to the best of our ability. And to play to our standards.”
When asked a similar question about home-field advantage, head coach Mike McCarthy loudly repeated the franchise quarterback's statements on the subject.
