Dak Prescott Injury? Dallas Cowboys False Report on QB Missing Pro Bowl

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00:00 Once upon a time, the Pro Bowl was a big deal. It was in Hawaii. It was not only an honor,

00:07 and there was not only money involved in participating, but it was a status thing.

00:13 Now, being named to the Pro Bowl can be profitable and be good for status,

00:18 but players don't necessarily want to go as much as they used to, and Dak Prescott is the star of

00:24 that particular show in this offseason. Mike Fisher reporting from Dallas Cowboys headquarters,

00:29 the star in Frisco, where the Cowboys, because they're not in the Super Bowl, of course,

00:34 the 49ers and the Chiefs are, so 49ers, Pro Bowlers, and Chiefs Pro Bowlers don't go to

00:40 Orlando. The NFL has to pick backup plans, the guys that fill in. So, for instance, Jake Ferguson,

00:48 he's going to the Pro Bowl. Tank Lawrence, he's going to the Pro Bowl, and the second-year offensive

00:55 lineman, Tyler Smith, going to the Pro Bowl. Good for them, and if you're Jake Ferguson or Tyler

00:59 Smith, you're really excited about it. This is your first go-round and all the rest. If you're

01:03 Dak Prescott, eh, it might be a little bit of the same old, same old. Dak Prescott has elected,

01:09 along with Zach Martin, to pull out of the tug-of-war and beach volleyball, because it's

01:14 not really a game. It's now just goofing around in Orlando, and of course, in this day and age,

01:20 if you make five or ten or forty million dollars a year and you want to go to Orlando, you can just

01:24 kind of go to yourself, if you want to, you know, go to Orlando. Once upon a time, when the Cowboys

01:30 went to the Pro Bowl throughout the course of the 90s in Hawaii, I went to the Pro Bowl, and it was,

01:36 really was, it was a thrill and it was an honor and it was something special. At some point,

01:40 though, even those era of Cowboys didn't think it was special enough to keep going. Troy Aikman

01:45 famously left at halftime one year, when our group was there covering him and the event. This time

01:53 around, Dak Prescott is backing out. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers website initially and erroneously

01:59 reported that it was due to a Dak Prescott injury. That sent chills through the spine of Cowboy Nation.

02:06 Our understanding is there's not an injury-related issue. Rather, let's look at the calendar. Zach

02:11 Martin, we think, has a new addition coming to his family, so he's backed out. And as you know,

02:17 Dak Prescott and his girlfriend, Sarah Jane Ramos, they have their first baby on the way very shortly.

02:23 That would be the most logical reason why Dak Prescott would say, "I'm not gonna go play tug-of-war

02:28 and beach volleyball. I'm gonna boil water and fold diapers." That's probably your smartest bet as to

02:36 why Dak Prescott, a MVP candidate and a Pro Bowler, officially, is not going to Orlando and instead

02:44 gonna stay home here in North Texas this weekend, as the rest of the league has some fun in Orlando

02:49 at the Pro Bowl, and then we go to the Super Bowl in Las Vegas at Cowboys headquarters. Fish out.