Dak Prescott: Team fights show Cowboys ready to 'unleash passion'

Despite being a team leader, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott had a hard time condemning his teammates for getting into scuffles at training camp practice recently.

“For me, to see the passion,” Prescott said on Thursday. “It’s a testament to what we’ve all put into this thing — what the offense has put in and the confidence that has grown, and the defense and who they believe that they are.

“It’s been 10 padded practices and a lot of time going against one other is what that is. It means you’re ready to play somebody else. You’re ready to unleash your passion.”

The Cowboys aren’t doing joint practices with other teams but it appears they’re still finding ways to keep the competitive energy high. Prescott told reporters that the offense wouldn’t be anybody’s “little brother,” and it proved capable of holding its own at practice.

Safety Jayron Kearse agreed, saying, “we ain’t taking no s— from nobody.”

“We ain’t taking no sh-t from nobody — all 32 teams — we ain’t taking sh-t from nobody,” Kearse said. “Whether it’s our offense or the next offense. We’re trying to show we’re the best in the business, so it gets spicy out here, it’s gonna get spicy on Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays; whenever we line up, that’s how we’re gonna come.”

Micah Parsons: Cowboys ‘made better’ with fight

Speaking with the media after one of the practice fights, Micah Parsons explained his side of the incident. Parsons flung haymakers at center Tyler Biadasz‘s helmet. Luckily for both the lineman and defensive lineman, Biadasz was wearing one of the cushioned Guardian caps over his helmet.

“Hell yeah, I need that,” Parsons said, via the team’s website. “I’m here to make them better. I push myself to the greater good and me pushing myself is only gonna make them better, at the end of the day. I don’t care who I’m up against… Don’t care if it’s Tyron [Smith], if it’s Zack [Martin], if it’s Tyler Smith — I’m gonna beat the hell out of them. 

“It’s only gonna make them better. … This is where championships get started — right here in camp. The goal is to bring that out, and the camaraderie, to bring it all together. It’s only one goal at the end of the day.”

The Cowboys don’t want to make the fighting a regular occurrence, but with time running out on camp in Oxnard, Parsons let loose.

“It’s the last practice of camp, man,” Parsons said. “You gotta bring all you got. That’s what this is about. I told guys before we went out there that this is our Super Bowl [on the line]. It was nothing more than being ferocious and being a dog competitor.”

The Cowboys matchup against the Seahawks on Saturday night in Seattle.