As the owner of the Dallas Cowboys since the late 1980s, Jerry Jones has been around a lot of great football players and great leaders. However, when it comes to the leadership side of things, no player has been better in Jones’ eyes than current Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. Jones sang Prescott’s praise during an appearance on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas on Tuesday morning.
"Time and time again, he is the best leader that I've been around for a team. Period," Jones said, via Fox Sports. "He just has a natural sense of what the situation calls for. He's had it since he's walked through the door. So much of the good things that he's been a part of have to do with that skill right there.
“He brings a certain confidence out there,” Jones added of Prescott. “You know you got a guy that he can have a bad series, he can have a bad quarter, but you know you got a guy that'll come out there and just completely erase it from his mind and really be as aggressive as it calls for. … From the get-go this year, he's been our stalwart relative to our chance to win."
Keep in mind, Jones has been around elite players like Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Deion Sanders, Michael Irvin and Tony Romo, just to name a few, and he's saying that Prescott is a better leader than all of them.
This is obviously very high praise from Jones, who has consistently backed his quarterback over the years despite Prescott’s lack of postseason success.
In 10 seasons, Prescott has just two playoff wins to his name, and both of those wins came in the Wild Card round of the playoffs. So, while Prescott might be an excellent leader in the locker room, that leadership hasn’t translated to postseason success.
In addition to praising Prescott, Jones also saved some praise for wide receiver George Pickens, who had nine receptions for 144 yards and a touchdown in Dallas’ 33-16 win over the Las Vegas Raiders on Monday Night Football.
“Pickens was — I’ve never seen a performance like that,” Jones said. “It was poetic the way that he was making those moves out there. It was like he was in an opera or something out there. A ballet.”
Despite their win over Las Vegas, the Cowboys are still under.500 (4-5-1) on the season and appear destined to miss out on postseason play for the first time since 2020.