{"id":40335,"date":"2025-12-23T23:33:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=40335"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:33:30","slug":"cowboys-prescott-wont-sit-vows-26-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=40335","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys&#8217; Prescott won&#8217;t sit, vows &#8217;26 turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"article-feed\" data-behavior=\"author_overlay article_header_news_feed_item_meta article_legal_footer\">\n<article data-behavior=\"story_scroll story_progress\" data-id=\"47401482\" data-src=\"\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47401482\/cowboys-prescott-refuses-sit-final-2-games-vows-26-rebound\">\n<header><\/header>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzEhMe4r0k0MGFpTvmD7abdrB12DsyoLD1uQ&amp;s\" alt=\"Cowboys' Prescott refuses to sit final 2 games, vows '26 rebound - ESPN\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>FRISCO, Texas &#8212; As the Dallas Cowboys close out a disappointing 2025 season knowing they will miss the playoffs with two games to play, Dak Prescott has one guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We won&#8217;t be back here in this spot,&#8221; Prescott said Tuesday as the 6-8-1 Cowboys prepare for their game against the Washington Commanders on Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like the last few times I&#8217;ve said that were playoff losses,&#8221; Prescott said. &#8220;Each year has its own troubles. Each year has its own highs, lows, ebbs and flows and everything within it. The importance is controlling what you can &#8230; I&#8217;m going to do my damnedest, controlling what I can and as you get older, I think having more input, having more say so and being asked more questions from the front office. Maybe there&#8217;s a little bit more that I can do, and it&#8217;s not physically or me getting better at my game. Maybe it&#8217;s speaking up and saying that this will help or I think this can help. Whatever it takes, once again I&#8217;m going to do my damnedest and make sure that I&#8217;m influencing and encouraging everybody else around me, not just the players, to do the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prescott has no desire of sitting out the final two games. He would not even let a reporter finish the question about the possibility of sitting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely not, especially on Christmas,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would fight coach Brian Schottenheimer if the decision was made to protect the Cowboys&#8217; most valuable player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Particularly right now, going into this game, getting a chance to play on Christmas day, first time and also just the fact of being away from my family,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not trying to be away from my family if I&#8217;m not going to get to play this game and get to do something I love at a high level [and] finish a good individual season, I guess you could say, off strong &#8230; Fifteen games under the belt, I want to make it 17.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prescott was named to the Pro Bowl on Tuesday for the fourth time in his career. 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