Trainer: Dallas Cowboys Dak Prescott is like Tom Brady
A former performance trainer for both Dallas Cowboys rookie quarterback Dak Prescott and New England Patriots’ veteran Tom Brady says the two share multiple traits.
Ever since Dallas Cowboys rookie quarterback Dak Prescott started dominating the NFL preseason last month, there have been constant comparisons made to his play. Completing 39 of his 50 passes for 454 yards, five touchdowns through the air and two more on the ground; Prescott has been speculated to be the next Russell Wilson or Cam Newton.
But this newest comparison, this time involving four-time Super Bowl winner and three time Super Bowl MVP New England Patriots veteran quarterback Tom Brady, should shock even the most die-hard Cowboys fan.
“Dak wants to be the best. Tom wanted to be best and became the best,” renowned performance trainer Tom Shaw told ESPN’s Chris Mortensen. “Everybody says they want to be the best, but is it really the most important thing in your life when you wake up in the morning and you’re breathing? For Tom it was that way, and it is that way with Dak…I’m not saying Dak will be the next Tom Brady. But he has the tools, he has the work ethic, he has the mind and he has the competitive desire.”
The Cowboys knew they were getting a ton of intangibles when they selected Prescott in the bottom half of the fourth round back in April’s NFL Draft. What they didn’t know was how well the 23-year old quarterback would play this preseason. They also didn’t know they’d lose starting quarterback Tony Romo for possibly half the regular one.
Now thrust into the starting role, at the helm of America’s Team as they open the regular season against a divisional foe in the New York Giants, Prescott will actually have to start proving some of these gaudy comparisons to be true. It’s a monumental task to ask of a rookie. But according to his trainers, and apparently anyone who has been around the kid, Dak is mentally poised for the challenge.
The Brady comparison will only get stronger if Prescott is able to dethrone injured starter Tony Romo in Dallas this year. In the Patriots’ second game of the 2001 regular season, then-starter Drew Bledsoe suffered internal bleeding after taking a massive hit. A young Brady, only in his second year, would eventually replace Bledsoe in that game and never relinquish the starting role.
Ironically, Bledsoe was also the starter in Dallas when Romo came into prominence with the Cowboys back in 2006.
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