Cowboys' Dak Prescott leaves door open to sitting Sunday: 'I don't want this to linger'

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott practiced again on Thursday, telling reporters that he pushed his stretched calf even harder than the previous day, in an effort to mimic the demands of a video game as ideal he could.

And also while he appeared of the day's job apparently fine, he took place document as claiming that a decision on whether he plays Sunday evening will likely not come up until Saturday, the day the group is set up to depart for Minnesota.

Prescott informed media members after the Thursday session that he thinks the calf bone injury, which occurred on the last play of overtime in the Cowboys' Week 6 overtime win in New England, relates to the ankle dislocation and substance crack he suffered in the exact same leg last October.

While Prescott put on a safety boot for his postgame press conference in Foxborough, he disregarded the injury at the time, stating he could have used had the video game not finished when it did on a goal pass to wide receiver CeeDee Lamb.

On Thursday, he took a similar tack, specifying that if Sunday's game were a playoff match, his standing "would certainly be no doubt," and he would certainly "100 percent" be playing,.

Prescott obtained an MRI the day after the injury, and also while the results were considered "confident," the injury seems triggering even more issue in Dallas than originally revealed. Prescott invested the bye week rehabbing in a swimming pool and also wasn't a complete individual in technique either Wednesday or Thursday.

"I'm doing every little thing I can to make certain I offer myself the best possibility," he was estimated as claiming.

Head coach Mike McCarthy has stated that the group plans to prepare both Prescott and also backup quarterback Cooper Rush as if each is mosting likely to play.

The team's 5-1 document and also healthy lead in the NFC East have actually triggered many to recommend that Prescott should remain the Week 8 video game as a precaution, so to even more ensure that the calf is completely healed and that he won't worsen the injury, potentially taking himself out for an even much longer stretch of games as the Cowboys attempt to maintain themselves in opinion for a top seeding in the postseason.

McCarthy has actually allowed for the possibility by prepping Rush, and also Cowboys gamers- while stating their leader looks excellent- have, to a man, expressed belief that the violation would be in excellent hands if Rush obtains the telephone call against the Vikings.

While Prescott no question wants to play and also sounds as if he might play, he recognizes that it may inevitably remain in the very best rate of interest of the period that he does not play.

"It's not completely my choice," Prescott claimed Thursday,, "due to the fact that there is a bigger image. It's more than simply one video game ... I don't desire this to stick around past today."

That's a far cry from owner Jerry Jones informing followers- as lately as Tuesday- that his beginning quarterback's calf bone stress was "not even in my thought process of points to worry about."

It sounds like it's not a worry, long-term, for anybody in the Dallas camp.

But it also seems like they're all of a sudden speaking themselves into Fallback for the short-term.

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