‘Our turn’ – Dak Prescott’s comments on beating Eagles and winning Super Bowl could come back to haunt him

The NFL season is finally here.

Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys are traveling to face Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday night.

Prescott is confident that they will go into the reigning Super Bowl champion’s house, on banner night, and come away with a win.

After all, that is what the Cowboys usually do when they play the Eagles, according to the quarterback.

“I feel like we compete with the Eagles and beat them, for the most part, when we play them,” Prescott said at the reveal of models for the 2025 Children’s Cancer Fund gala on the Tuesday after Super Bowl LIX.

“I don’t want to say ‘check the record’ when they’re the guys holding the trophy right now, so credit to them. They earned it and they deserve it, by all means, but yeah, very close.”

The record Prescott is alluding to is his career mark against Philadelphia, which is an impressive 9-4. He’s right—when he’s under center, the Cowboys more often than not win.

It’s hard to bring up that record when they’re the ones sitting at home, watching their NFC East rivals lift the Lombardi Trophy. Prescott understands that, he isn’t oblivious to the moment.

However, that isn’t making him any less confident in the 2025 Dallas Cowboys. In fact, he said that if anything he’s been inspired by Philadelphia.

“To see [the Eagles do it] in such a dominating fashion, credit to them,” Prescott said. “It’s our turn, and it’s on us.”

It’s hard to give Prescott’s words much weight, considering the Cowboys haven’t reached an NFC Championship in 30 years—the longest drought in the NFL.

But what else should the league’s all-time highest paid player say? That he doesn’t want to win the Super Bowl?

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Prescott mentioned the 2024 NFC title game too, noting that it had two NFC East teams, neither of which were the Cowboys.

“Especially even watching the NFC [championship] game… those two teams, teams that we battle against each and every year a couple of times, and as I said, I feel confident that we’ve gotten the better part each and every time,” Prescott said.

Why can’t it be America’s Team’s turn?

First-year head coach Brian Schottenheimer said it best in his introductory press conference: Why not us?

“We’re gonna win,” Schottenheimer said. “We’re gonna win a championship. Otherwise, why are we even doing it?”

Of course, all this was said before Jerry Jones inexplicably traded Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers a week before the season opener.

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Trading arguably your best player right before the season begins is usually frowned upon. But what do I know?

Jones has and always will march to the beat of his own drum. It’s also probably no coincidence that Dallas hasn’t sniffed an NFC championship game appearance in three decades.

But hey, at least Jones believes he won the deal, that’s all that matters, right?

Who knows how Dallas’ season will play out. Prescott is ready to prove a lot of people wrong (and Jones right) after an injury-plagued 2024 campaign. And if he’s to be believed, then they may just get the last laugh come February.

But if they get embarrassed on Thursday night in front of the millions that will be watching? Well, that will just be old hat.