Quarterback · Dallas Cowboys

Dak Prescott

No. 4 · 11th season

Dak Prescott sets the floor: the playoffs aren't a goal anymore

There's a difference between hoping to make the postseason and treating it as the bare minimum. Prescott has drawn that line out loud.

He has been the face of the Dallas Cowboys through years when expectations ran high and outcomes came up short. The Cowboys haven't been back to the playoffs since 2023, and that absence has a weight to it — the kind that builds quietly until someone in the building decides to say it plainly.

Prescott said it. Making the postseason in 2026 isn't the goal; it's the floor. Not the destination, just the starting point.

For a franchise that talks about winning more than almost any other, that framing matters. It pushes the conversation past "can they get there?" and toward "what happens if they don't?"

That's a different kind of pressure — and Prescott is the one holding it.

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