Why Dak Prescott yells 'here we go' as his pre-snap cadence as Cowboys QB

Billy Heyen

Why Dak Prescott yells 'here we go' as his pre-snap cadence as Cowboys QB image

Dak Prescott handles his business at the line of scrimmage a bit differently than other quarterbacks.

The Dallas Cowboys' QB doesn't rely so much on the colors and numbers that you hear other passers yell out as part of their pre-snap cadence.

Instead, Prescott uses a simple catchphrase: "Here we go!"

There were rumors in the offseason that Dallas may use that less this season, but it doesn't sound like it's fully going away.

"You guys asked me this in the spring... I said we always tweak our cadence, but for those 'here we go' lovers out there, there will be some 'here we go's', but they'll also be some maybe things that's not used," Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer told reporters this summer. "Why would we take it away when it's got TikTok memes and stuff like that. Why would we change it? We always adjust [the cadence] a little bit."

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Why does Dak Prescott yell 'here we go'?

Quarterbacks can use whatever words they want at the line of scrimmage. It's about the rhythm, so that the offense knows the snap is coming.

Prescott started using "Here we go," sometimes with an elongated "yeah" at the front of it, in 2023.

Aaron Rodgers has for a long time yelled "Green 18" at the line.

It's the same idea, just different words.

And in this case, Prescott has gone for the literal.

Why yell a color and a number when you can just say what you're thinking?

When Prescott's mind thinks, "Here we go, time to snap the ball," he can just unleash those words out loud, too.

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Billy Heyen

Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who has written about many sports and fantasy sports for The Sporting News. Sports reporting work has also appeared in a number of newspapers, including the Sandusky Register and Rochester Democrat & Chronicle