The heat has come on Brian Schottenheimer and Christian Parker after Rio, but No. 4 is still in their corner.
We have often heard about the culture Brian Schottenheimer is building with the Dallas Cowboys, and it has gotten a serious test after the Baltimore Ravens loss.
We know culture is easy when things are going well, but when things go south, you find out what you really have in that locker room.
After leaning on the "brotherhood" in the locker room, the team faced its test this week when the coaches blew the Cowboys' chances of beating the Ravens; both Schottenheimer and Christian Parker took accountability for their colossal failures in those now-infamous last 23 seconds.
But how do the players feel about their coaches letting them down so badly?
Well, Dak Prescott stepped forward to the media, and it's clear he isn't letting one game ruin everything they've built.
"There's a lot of season left," Dak said. "The last thing we're going to do is let this derail us or allow us to lose confidence in the play callers, each other. Truly our calling card is our brotherhood. So, I'd be damned if we're going to allow that right now to lose any steam or not to be as valuable as it has been for us."
And in truth, that's exactly what you want to hear.
It was clear that Prescott was still a little irked about what happened in Rio, and you can argue that this is the biggest test of the culture and brotherhood that Schottenheimer has built over the past year.
Dak hasn't lost any confidence in his play-caller or Parker, and I'd imagine the rest of the locker room hasn't either.
But such was the magnitude of the failures in Rio; Schottenheimer and Parker can't let it happen again, because while Dak and Co. have moved on from it this time.
But next time? The fallout could be far worse.
