The Dallas Cowboys are emotionally devastated after their playoff exit, Mike McCarthy is facing the end as coach. Quarterback Dak Prescott stood up to his coach.

Dak Prescott didn’t mince his words.

He stood up to his coach in no uncertain terms. After the equally violent and surprising playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers (32:48), that is quite daring. After all, Mike McCarthy may be facing the end as head coach of the Cowboys.

But Prescott also linked the coach’s fate with his own. Their contracts run for another season.

“I don’t know how there can be questions about his future, but I understand the business,” Prescott said. And clarified: “If that’s the case, then it should be about me too, quite honestly. I owe the season I played to him. The team has had the success it has thanks to him. “

Dak Prescott understands the business

He understands it’s about winning the Super Bowl, Prescott said, that’s the standard of the league and “damn sure the standard of this place,” the quarterback said. “I get it. But add me to the list on this one.”

Because after a 12-5 season, the expectations in Dallas were very different, and certainly not an exit in the Wild Card Round, and then such an emphatic one at that. Prescott found no solutions against the Packers defense and even threw two interceptions, including a pick six.

“I failed tonight,” Prescott admitted candidly.

Owner Jerry Jones made no secret of his disappointment. For some time, the Cowboys have had the personnel to play for their first Super Bowl win since 1995. But after a third consecutive 12-5 season under McCarthy, the Cowboys were finished early for the third time in a row. Jones would not comment on the future of his already shaky coach.

Cowboys: What does Mike McCarthy say?

And McCarthy? “I think the most important thing is that we’re disappointed,” McCarthy said. “I’ve got a whole team in the locker room that’s hurting. I wasn’t thinking beyond the result of this game.”

He doesn’t think anyone saw this coming, McCarthy said. “You’ve got to hand it to Green Bay. They came in here and they were hot. They got it done and we didn’t. We didn’t make it in any phase. That hurts us, we’re disappointed, every single one of us.”

Were the Cowboys flat?

“I wouldn’t say we were flat,” McCarthy said. “We had energy. They made more plays than we did. The big-play production; we were minus-three in turnovers at halftime. We just didn’t manage to stop them. We weren’t able to cut it to a two-score game fast enough. We didn’t play to our capabilities. “