Prescott is perhaps the most criticized player in football, so it is natural for him to have a way of coping with it.
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is perhaps the most criticized player in football, and he has been since becoming the starter in 2016.
With many either seeing Dak as one of the better quarterbacks in football or thinking he just downright sucks, there is no in-between.
Often, the punchline of jokes is when Dallas loses, and he is rarely given credit when he does play well and is the reason the team wins; it is all in a day's work as a Cowboys quarterback.
For Dak to be the main topic on most national media shows, and having everything he does analyzed to within an inch of its life, in the day and age of social media, players can't escape it.
They can't escape the noise about their performances, as everyone now has an opinion and puts it out on social media for the world to see.
So how does Dak deal with all of that noise? Well, as it turns out, he has a rather good system after one person tweeted about him.
“One of the best things for me that happened when I was young is, I don’t remember exactly what it was, but it was before I signed off of Twitter," Prescott said. "Some guy just telling me how terrible I was. Go back and look at some of his earlier tweets, and hell, he's my biggest fan the year before when I was a rookie.
“When you see that sometimes, you understand that people are just going to talk, and people are going to have an opinion. If you’re doing things right, you should have haters. You should have people that are upset about it, doubting you."
And doubts have followed Prescott for his entire career. So, it is nothing new to him.
Now, as he begins Year 11 in the league and as the headline act for one of the best offenses in football (we think), Prescott is once again at the front of the criticism line in 2026.
And he knows what really matters when those pitchforks get sharpened after a bad loss.
"Just trust in yourself, trust in your faith and trust in what you’re going to do and who you are," he added. "Get people around you that love you and love you for who you are, that can support you the right way, and it’ll make it easier to block out the noise and to stay focused on what really matters.
"So just limiting the noise, as Nick Saban says, the rat poison, whether it be good. I don’t even like the compliments sometimes because I don’t want to feel too good about myself or get too high, and then this game has a great way of humbling you."
Dak has a good plan in action to help limit the noise, which, right now, even after one week, is nearly deafening.
The Cowboys, at 0-1, face the Washington Commanders at AT&T Stadium and look to avoid a nightmare 0-2 start.
Because yeah, the noise is loud now, one can only imagine what it will be if Dallas loses on Sunday.
