‘They showed that?’: Cowboys’ Prescott talks about viral reaction to Lamb saving throwaway

From @ToddBrock24f7: Cameras caught the QB’s reaction to a failed throwaway going for 17 yards in a game where even the mistakes turned into Cowboys highlights.

Some days, it just goes your way.

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was humming on Sunday, throwing for for 404 yards and four touchdowns while compiling a 138.3 passer rating. All are top-10 numbers for his career.

But the moment most indicative of his play during the 49-17 Week 10 rout came on a pass he wasn’t even trying to complete.

“I’ll be honest; I was throwing it away,” Prescott said Sunday in his postgame press conference.

He may have been surprised that CeeDee Lamb turned the busted play into a 17-yard gain, but he was caught even more off-guard when he learned that TV cameras had captured his since-gone-viral reaction to the moment.

“They showed that?”

It happened late in the second quarter. Already up 21-0, the Cowboys were marching once again and had just moved the chains to set up at the Giants’ 28. As the pocket broke down and he scrambled to elude New York linebacker Azeez Ojulari, Prescott heaved the ball skyward. With Prescott falling backward and on one foot when he released it, the throw looked like either a lower-seating-bowl souvenir or maybe even a terrible decision that he would regret a split-second later.

But then Lamb raced underneath it from outside the camera frame and made the unlikely grab. The catch gave the Cowboys yet another first down- one of 32 on the afternoon- and moved the offense that much closer to its fourth touchdown of the half.

Maybe most important, it was proof that the day would indeed belong to Dallas, one of those rare games in which even the mistakes end up being highlights.

“That’s CeeDee Lamb being CeeDee Lamb,” Prescott explained. “I didn’t quite get it out of bounds, and CeeDee came back, and that’s kind of why I stuck my tongue out. Man, just put it in his vicinity and it’s going to be his or nobody’s. That was a wild play.”

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Thankfully for Cowboys fans, it was a wild one that went the team’s way.

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