Dak Prescott speaks to the media about his ankle

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Cowboys QB Dak Prescott spoke to the local media today about his ankle, which was seen in a cast on a recent vacation.

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00:00To start the show, though, let's hear from Dak Prescott talking about him being in that

00:19walking boot there on the vacay.

00:21Here's Dak.

00:22Yeah, I'm great.

00:23Honestly, I'm getting older.

00:24It's the same ankle, right, that I snapped and had a nasty surgery on four years ago.

00:28So yeah, a couple of hard days of training, and you know, you get a little sore, and then

00:33you're going on a fishing trip, and you want to protect it and make sure that things don't

00:36get worse.

00:37So literally, it is absolutely nothing.

00:39That's why I suppose that people are reaching, trying to make things that they aren't.

00:43I'm getting older, have to take care of my body, have to be smart.

00:46And if I can take precautions and lessening something by putting on a boot, I'm going

00:50to do it.

00:51And so sorry that it caused such a whirlwind.

00:55Yeah, it's pretty much exactly what we thought, right?

00:58I mean, that confirms your report, Brian, soreness.

01:02And it makes sense.

01:03I mean, I think this is probably something that we talked about yesterday he's going

01:06to be dealing with.

01:07When you have an injury like that and a surgery like that, at some point there's going to

01:11be a little bit of soreness, and you just try and mitigate that as best as possible.

01:15Yeah, the fact we know he's going to work hard, he's going to overdo it in a lot of

01:19ways.

01:20He's going to go throw it tight in schools and whatever schools he can go be a part of.

01:24And he's going to invite guys to come to the Dak yard and throw with him there.

01:28He's going to do a lot of dropbacks.

01:29He's going to do bag drills.

01:30And he's right.

01:31He's getting older.

01:32And, you know, it's funny that he brought up the fishing part.

01:35If you've ever done deep sea fishing, you're on your feet all day and your feet get tired

01:40and you stand up and maybe sit down in the, you know, they have the captain's area where

01:45you can maybe sit down.

01:46But when you're when you're hunting big fish, you're standing up all day.

01:51And so he was probably thinking like, all right, this thing's already sore a little

01:54bit.

01:55I'm going to be on a boat for about eight to 10 hours fishing.

01:59So maybe I need to kind of get a little preventive medicine here.

02:03But yeah, he's right.

02:04He's getting older.

02:05He works really hard.

02:06And that thing is, as you say, a lot of times, Dawson, it's not the same.

02:11It's not the same.

02:12I mean, it's amazing that he's come back to the extent he has.

02:14Yeah.

02:15Yeah.

02:16You know, because that injury effectively ended.

02:17Joe Theismann.

02:18Alex Smith was never close to the same.

02:19Never.

02:20You know, I would say my foot and ankle, I didn't snap it like that, but required for

02:24reconstruction.

02:26He's never been better than about sixty five percent.

02:28Dak looks like he's about 90 percent of the athlete that he was.

02:31And you know, every now and then, as Brian pointed out, maybe a little over training

02:35going on a little bit.

02:36He does have a lot.

02:37He's got to kind of save him from himself.

02:39Right.

02:40He's kind of one of those guys that constantly is going to be working.

02:42You know, when we when we get to camp, you'll see like Britt Brown and Jim Maurer, the trainers

02:48work with these guys like they never have to worry about Dak.

02:51It's like Dak's putting in all the work.

02:53He's going with the extra mild.

02:55He makes sure he's getting back and ready to rock.

02:57Well, it got to the point, too, where we had the report.

02:59I think Mike Bassett was one of the first on it about the second surgery.

03:03When that all went down, there was a second surgery.

03:06And I'm probably going to get a text message here in the next couple of minutes talking

03:10about this.

03:11But Britt and Dak work extremely hard when they're together and they push each other.

03:17And, you know, you probably had a little bit of a setback there and they had to go correct

03:22some clean something up.

03:24And hopefully got it back as good as new.

03:26But he's he's he's right.

03:27He's getting older and it's probably doesn't have the flexibility that it once had.

03:32And there's things that the soreness that he deals with and, you know, and hopefully

03:37he doesn't, you know, being on a fishing boat ain't going to hurt him and doing other things

03:41as long as we get to camp and we're not missing days because of, you know, the well, so we

03:48have ankle sores.

03:49Hey, we're all standing out there when all of a sudden we had the thing going on in the

03:52shoulder.

03:53And everybody's like, oh, it's just a common kind of a kind of an injury.

03:56It's baseball pitchers have this and that and other.

03:58And then, you know, and then now you're figuring out that, like, well, they're really kind

04:02of concerned about this thing.

04:03This wasn't something just that, you know, is this kind of comes and goes.

04:07This was something that they were honestly concerned about.

04:09So as long as Dak feels good about it, the staff feels good about it.

04:13We'll see what happens here in a couple of weeks.

04:15He also talked, you know, contract and said there's been talks, but the money is going

04:19to take care of itself.

04:20We'll talk about that a little bit more later on.

04:22But he does not sound at all like a guy who is concerned at all about his contract future

04:28with this team.

04:29He shouldn't be.

04:30He shouldn't be.

04:31Well, I'm saying he shouldn't be concerned about his contract future.

04:36Maybe not with the doubt.

04:37I mean, maybe, you know, I think that there's going to be somebody out there that if it

04:41gets to free agency and they look at their quarterback situation and feel like this guy

04:46can do this for us and he is worth the money.

04:50Yes.

04:51He, I think that he is at peace with his situation.

04:54I do.

04:55I mean, you know, he's seen what's the Cowboys have done, that he saw the number that his

05:00agent did on him the first time, got him back to the table quicker than we all even believed.

05:06You know, I wouldn't be concerned either.

05:09There's a history here.

05:10They, they are going to find ways to all of a sudden it's like, okay, we got to get this

05:14done.

05:15Boom.

05:16They get it done.

05:17But you know, maybe for Dak, it's maybe it's not here, but I don't think he's concerned.

05:21Overall, I think he's like, hey, if it's here, great.

05:24If it's not here, I'll get paid somewhere.

05:26Yeah.

05:27The way that he says it, you know, just that the money is always taken care of itself.

05:30I just feel like maybe he, he, you know, he put off the feeling to me anyway, that it's

05:35kind of a foregone conclusion that a deal is going to get done one way or another.

05:39It's interesting though, because as you mentioned, if he does get to free agency, the offer is

05:43going to be so substantial from a, from another perspective team.

05:48The Cowboys, the thing that we have to look at is Dak does a really good job with his

05:54side hustles, you know, the sleep numbers and the yogurt and all the other things that

06:00he does business.

06:02Will he have those same opportunities doing it when he, and that's why I wouldn't want

06:06to leave.

06:07I don't want to, I don't want to go to a different city, but my marketability is different.

06:11His wife, his wife is a, is a Florida.

06:14Her whole family's in Florida there did the, if the Buccaneers call all of a sudden the

06:18Buccaneers say, Hey, you know, we want you to come down Tampa, maybe Miami, but that's,

06:23but that New Orleans car doesn't work out this year.

06:26Do I want to go back to Louisiana?

06:27There could be a site that I, you know, there could be a time here where Dak Prescott is

06:32like, Oh, this is all BS.

06:35Every day I wake up, I turn on the TV.

06:37They're talking about me throwing interceptions.

06:40They're talking about national shows.

06:42He goes, he's probably thinking if I'm not the, if I'm not the quarterback of the Dallas

06:46Cowboys, do I, do I get all, you want, no, you, you, you get a lot less pressure, a lot

06:51less criticism, but less opportunity as well.

06:53Francis come out gangbusters with.

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