Dak wary of 'overconfidence' in winning return

ARLINGTON, Texas -- As Dak Prescott jogged to the locker country aft the Dallas Cowboys' 24-6 win implicit the Detroit Lions connected Sunday, helium whacked halfway Tyler Biadasz connected the backside with his close manus and kept connected moving.

"Thumb feels beauteous good," the backmost joked.

Playing for the archetypal clip successful 42 days since undergoing country to repair a fractured close thumb, Prescott was not astatine his statistical best, throwing for 207 yards and a fourth-quarter touchdown connected 19-of-25 passing, but the Cowboys did not request him to be.

"A win's a win," Prescott said. "I truly don't attraction however it gets done, a win's a win. I thought it was going to beryllium beauteous chill to permission this crippled without a touchdown, honestly. That's benignant of wherever my caput is close now. I cognize however talented this squad is. I cognize what we tin be. It's not astir me. It's astir each of us, and I'm conscionable trying to marque definite I play my portion and marque definite I enactment this squad successful the close concern each and each play."

Prescott's archetypal walk effort -- connected a rollout to his near to Noah Brown -- was a small disconnected people and fell incomplete. The Cowboys did not get a archetypal down until their 3rd drive, which ended successful a tract goal. On the 4th drive, Prescott forced a walk to CeeDee Lamb successful treble coverage.

"Some of those throws were conscionable overconfidence successful a sense," Prescott said. "Yeah, I've got to defender against that due to the fact that sometimes those tin pb to turnovers, and the past happening I'm trying to bash is enactment this squad successful a atrocious presumption due to the fact that I'm overconfident."

Prescott has thrown without limitations for lone the past 10 days and went done conscionable 1 full-padded signifier up of Sunday's game. He wore kinesiology portion connected his thumb for comfortableness and said aft the crippled helium didn't deliberation astir the thumb astatine all.

The Cowboys were assertive successful the passing crippled upon his return.

According to ESPN tracking, Prescott averaged 10.5 aerial yards per attempt, the highest mean the Cowboys person had this season. He was a cleanable 14-of-14 connected passes of 10 oregon less aerial yards. According to NFL Next Gen Stats, helium completed 4 of 7 passes into a choky model (1 oregon less yards of separation), which was the astir completions by the Cowboys successful a crippled this season.

Thanks to the moving crippled (139 yards connected 32 carries), Prescott went 11-of-12 for 121 yards and a touchdown disconnected play-action.

"I thought Dak performed amended arsenic the crippled went on," manager Mike McCarthy said. "It's his archetypal clip he's been retired determination successful rather immoderate time. Start with the bid of the huddle, the full operation, I thought helium was truly connected constituent there. He handled the adjustments that were going during the people of the game. Those are the large things that don't amusement up successful the stat column."

As overmuch arsenic teammates praised Cooper Rush for guiding the Cowboys to a 4-1 record, they were blessed to person Prescott backmost astatine the helm.

"From my aspect, helium was backmost to normal," said choky extremity Dalton Schultz, who had 5 catches for 49 yards aft signaling conscionable 2 receptions for 18 yards without Prescott. "It was bully having him backmost retired there. I cognize everybody says it, but you can't underestimate the magnitude of enactment that feline has. The bid helium has successful the huddle, it was conscionable large to consciousness the normalcy backmost successful our offense. Coop did a helluva job. But having Dak backmost is immense for us. It felt similar it's backmost to normal."

Said Lamb, "And he's going to look adjacent amended adjacent week."

The Cowboys big the Chicago Bears adjacent week with a accidental to get to 6-2 earlier their bye week. At 5-2, they are presently successful 3rd spot successful the NFC East down the Philadelphia Eagles (6-0) and New York Giants (6-1).

Prescott is conscionable gladsome to beryllium back, with eyes connected bigger days ahead.

"The sky's the limit. We're not going to enactment immoderate limitations connected what we tin do," Prescott said.