FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott will not be about to drag an “I informed you so.”
Final yr right now, a lot of the discuss Prescott centered round his interceptions. He would find yourself tied for the league lead in interceptions with 15 regardless of lacking 5 video games with a damaged proper thumb.
With one sport left this season, Prescott has eight interceptions and leads the league with 32 landing passes in 16 video games.
“At the moment final yr, I knew that is who I’m, simply as I talked about then,” Prescott stated. “Some issues have been robust, balls weren’t going precisely the best way I needed to, some loopy bounces right here and there, and a few tight throws that weren’t working in my favor. After which your occasional dangerous interception, which continues to be taking place this yr.
“For me, it is nearly staying true to myself, maintain working and never permitting different individuals’s opinions — critics actually — have an effect on my sport or the best way that I method this.”
Prescott’s interception proportion (1.4%) is the second lowest of his profession. He was 0.9% as a rookie in 2016 when he had 23 landing passes and 4 interceptions. Final season, his interception charge was 3.8%.
Prescott is third in interception proportion behind Houston’s C.J. Stroud (1.1%) and Pittsburgh’s Kenny Pickett (1.2%). Stroud has missed two video games and tried 473 passes. Pickett has missed 4 video games and tried 324 passes.
Prescott has 554 cross makes an attempt in 16 begins.
In coaching camp, Prescott made a press release: “I’m going to reduce my interception numbers. That could be a assure.”
With seven fewer interceptions regardless of already taking part in 4 extra video games, he has adopted by means of.
Aside from his second season (2.7%) and final season (3.8%), Prescott has not had an interception charge above 1.8%.
“Most likely one of the essential statistics in quarterback play,” coach Mike McCarthy stated of interception charge. “[A figure of] 1.7 or much less will win it yearly for you, should you’re on the lookout for a benchmark or a objective.”
Prescott’s play has proven 2022 was an anomaly.
“I feel so,” McCarthy stated. “I feel should you return and have a look at his historical past I feel that will be correct.”
If Prescott finally ends up main the NFL in landing passes, he can be the primary Cowboys quarterback to carry that mark outright. Roger Staubach tied for the league lead with 23 in 1973.
San Francisco’s Brock Purdy is second within the NFL this season with 31 landing passes, and he is not going to play within the 49ers’ finale. Inexperienced Bay’s Jordan Love is third with 30 and is taking part in a win-and-in sport for a playoff berth. Prescott and the Cowboys are combating for the No. 2 seed within the NFC.
“It is numbers. It is stats. It is a part of it. That is why I do not get caught up in that stuff,” Prescott stated. “Loads of nice quarterbacks have been injured this yr, sadly. I simply labored to be my finest every day and ensure the blokes round me are [working too]. Numbers are numbers, I do not get caught up in them.”
