One KEY Reason Why Dak Prescott Isn't A Legit MVP Candidate In 2025...

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Mauricio Rodriguez talks about recent conversations that have been happening online, surrounding Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott, and his MVP chances. Mau chimes in, but adds that we're having the wrong conversation around this, and explains why...

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00:00So people are discussing whether or not Dak Prescott can win MVP, but I think we're having

00:06the wrong conversation about this. Hey, what's up, everyone? It's Mauricio Rodriguez here at

00:14ADZ Sports Dallas. Today, we are weighing in in a discussion that broke out on Twitter

00:20during the weekend. And let me give you some context first. It all started when Danny Phantom,

00:25and if you're on Cowboys Twitter, you likely know Dan. He does a great job with Cowboys

00:30content. He put out a tweet in which he was basically pointing out, hey, the Cowboys won

00:3513 games with Cole Beasley and Des Bryant with Amari Cooper and CeeDee Lamb. Dak Prescott put

00:42up tremendous numbers. He also did that with Brandon Cooks and CeeDee in 2023. And the point

00:49from Phantom was basically, well, what can Dak Prescott do now that he has George Pickens?

00:54Now, I don't want to say JPA Football is an account we should all be following or anything

00:59like that. That's a topic for another day. But it put out a tweet in which it basically

01:03posed the question, is Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott a sleeper candidate for MVP in 2025?

01:10I saw some very interesting takes on social media that I wanted to address, and I wanted

01:15to give you my two cents on this. And hey, even though I might disagree with some of these

01:19guys, it doesn't mean they're not great at what they do. And I really recommend you check

01:23out their channels. Because I'm going to talk about Landon Holyfield's response here,

01:27because he tweeted out Dak was the MVP runner up the last time that he played a full season.

01:31The world sleeper is a non-qualifier. This is simply an MVP candidate. And Jay Tuck on

01:37the other side, he also added easily. He's honestly not a sleeper. If Dak is healthy, number

01:42wise, he will have MVP caliber stats. And there were some other tweets that kind of sent the

01:48same message, right? About, hey, Dak was the runner up for the big award two years ago.

01:53Why the heck are we disrespecting him with the sleeper label? And I fully agree that there's

01:57a possibility that Prescott might put up MVP numbers, that it's maybe a little bit unfair

02:02to act as if he would be the super major underdog. But here's the thing. I think he is an MVP sleeper,

02:10but we're not having the right conversation as to why that is. Obviously, you need the numbers,

02:15you need the individual stats. And I think Prescott might get all of that now that he has

02:20George Pickens to work with, because you can absolutely make the argument that this is one

02:26of the best wide receiver cores that he's had. You can only compare it maybe to 2016. You can

02:31compare it to, man, I don't know, 2021 because of CeeDee and Amari. And then as Joe Hoyt said the

02:36other day, when he joined the show, you could definitely say this is the most talented group that

02:41he's had. But the question we should be asking ourselves is, can the Cowboys go out there

02:45and win 13 games this season? And here's why I say that. Out of the 12 MVP winners that we've had

02:51in the NFL since 2013, nine of them have had the number one seed of their respective conference

02:57that year. And the other three guys out of those 12 MVP winners have been the second seed. So the

03:02overwhelming majority have been number one seeds. And then the exceptions have been second seeds.

03:08I don't know, man. I think the Cowboys might've made the playoffs. There's a chance they do,

03:11but I just don't see this being a 13 win team. There are many concerns and we'll talk about them

03:17in a future video, but I'm worried about the defense and I'm worried about the offensive line.

03:21And I'm worried about having a first year head coach, Brian Schottenheimer, that isn't necessarily

03:26known as this play calling guru really. And I also look at the Philadelphia Eagles in the division

03:32and I objectively go, they're kind of the better team, right? They're the Superbowl champions.

03:36They have a lot of continuity. They have great offensive lines, great defensive line.

03:40They have a lot of playmakers to build on, right? Saquon Barkley just went off last year with a

03:46historic NFL season. So I guess what I'm trying to say is Dak Prescott is a sleeper MVP candidate.

03:53And the reason why is he's going to need to win a lot of games to be in that conversation. And maybe

03:58the Cowboys win enough to play in January. I don't know that they win enough to have the number one

04:02seed or anything like that in the conference. It is a tough schedule. It is a year of transition

04:07into a new coaching regime. Let's see how it plays out. Let me know what you guys think in the comments.

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