Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott says his team’s growing openness about faith begins with head coach Brian Schottenheimer — and reaches beyond the scoreboard.
“And so, it’s something that we take pride in, but at the end of the day, it’s about giving Him the glory,” Prescott said during his Oct. 4 postgame news conference after Dallas rallied to beat the Houston Texans 34-30.
A reporter asked whether this Cowboys team was expressing its faith more openly than others Prescott had played with in Dallas. Prescott agreed, crediting Schottenheimer’s leadership with creating room for those conversations and describing faith as something he and many teammates share.
Schottenheimer is no newcomer to Prescott’s working life. The Cowboys’ official coaching biography identifies him as Dallas’ head coach, appointed in January 2025 after two seasons as the team’s offensive coordinator.
But Prescott wasn’t simply thanking a coach for a well-timed play call. In the closing exchange of the news conference, he explained that the team’s sense of purpose includes serving God and other people, responding with love and looking for meaning even when the result is disappointing.
That last part matters. Prescott’s explanation didn’t stop at celebrating a comeback; he applied the same questions about purpose to wins, losses and draws, acknowledging that the players may not always understand why something happened.
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He also credited the team’s chaplains with helping lead those conversations. Describing his own life, Prescott said God has been the one he falls back on and his refuge, then connected that personal gratitude to what he sees spreading through the team.
The football backdrop gave that discussion some weight. Dallas had just answered a difficult loss to Baltimore with an 11-play, 74-yard winning drive, capped by Prescott’s touchdown pass to wide receiver CeeDee Lamb.
Dallas had trailed 16-6 at halftime, and Prescott completed 20 of 25 passes for 248 yards over the final two quarters. The response turned a frustrating first half into a chance to finish together.
Prescott finished with 335 passing yards, while Lamb caught 17 passes for 189 yards. Yet the quarterback’s account of the win emphasized preparation, communication and trust — not an excuse to stop improving.
“I want to say it fixes all the problems, but it doesn’t,” Prescott admitted while discussing how satisfying it felt to win, according to the Cowboys’ postgame reporting.
Schottenheimer described a similar attitude in the locker room. In the team’s account of his postgame remarks, he emphasized the players’ affection for one another and their decision to return to work rather than point fingers.
“These guys are a special group of young men that truly do love each other. The brotherhood is real,” the coach said, putting a concrete relationship behind the familiar locker-room language about unity.
Prescott’s comments offer something more useful than a suggestion that faith guarantees a favorable score. He described a foundation for the response: gratitude toward God, responsibility toward teammates and love for others, whatever the outcome.
That is the part families can take beyond football. A comeback makes a memorable afternoon, but Prescott’s larger point was about how people carry themselves when the scoreboard changes — and whom they credit when they get another opportunity.
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