QB Dak Prescott doesn’t fear “either situation” with uncertain future beyond 2024 with Cowboys

This looks like it is going to be a dramatic season for the Dallas Cowboys.

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott spoke to the media at a Children’s Cancer Fund event on Friday, where former quarterback Troy Aikman was also in attendance. Prescott is still on an expiring contract after 2024, with the likelihood of Prescott playing out this deal without an extension before the season begins increasing with each passing day. Right now, the Cowboys are in final preparations for a draft they need to hit a home run with, but as it pertains to the rest of their offseason activity and roster building, they have yet to extend Prescott (perhaps deliberately with head coach Mike McCarthy also playing out the final year of his deal in 2024) and his top wide receiver, CeeDee Lamb.

Prescott has every reason in the world at the moment to be wary of the Cowboys front office handling his new contract correctly. When it comes to quarterbacks it is all about the current market price and having to “overpay” in an effort to avoid a rotating door of mediocrity at the most important position in sports.

Prescott said, somewhat tongue-in-cheek on video here, that he previously had a “great conversation” with Jerry Jones about where they are at currently – making it clear and doubling down on the fact they didn’t talk much about what happens “going forward” as it pertains to a future in Dallas.

The other recurring theme in Prescott’s brief comments was his focus on the “here and now” of any situation, something hardly new to how the Cowboys QB approaches the game. The Cowboys inactivity in free agency and the trade market though screams that they’re taking a longer view of their future than just that here and now, knowing the immediate future gives them a best of both worlds scenario where Prescott’s record against the NFC East is a plausible ticket to the playoffs, but another early exit here leaves them with options for moving on in 2025.

Prescott himself doesn’t fear “either situation” of playing what could be his last season with the Cowboys in 2024, or spending the rest of his career as the quarterback of America’s Team. Next week’s draft will certainly be a distraction from all of this contract talk, but it won’t be long until it returns to the forefront of offseason discussion, and these latest comments are just more fuel to a fire that has no end in sight.

If the only way to douse the flames is the magic elixir of playoff success that has eluded Prescott, Cowboys fans will have to wait. Even the Super Bowl-winning Aikman backed away from the obvious question of how the current Cowboys team can be more like the ones that raised the Lombardi trophy with Troy under center, only offering that the people in the building “want to win”.