FRISCO, Texas — Imagine Jerry Jones suddenly being the voice of reason while Dallas Cowboys fans and media pundits are losing their their minds salivating at the thought of a possible quarterback controversy between backup Cooper Rush and injured starter Dak Prescott.
We have reached that point.
First things, first.
Jones said on his radio show on Tuesday that Prescott’s return from a fractured thumb is still at least a week away
Prescott, who had the stitches removed from the surgically repaired right thumb last Monday, still can’t grip a football.
“No, not well enough to play,” Jones said.
Prescott was set to meet with his doctors on Tuesday.
And considering that coach Mike McCarthy said Prescott would need a full week of practice before playing again, Rush will make his fourth consecutive start for the Cowboys Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams with the hopes of going 4-0 this season and running his career record to 5-0 as a starting quarterback.
But Prescott is getting better and return is coming, possibly for the Oct. 16 showdown at the Philadelphia Eagles.
“Well, I know that it’s better, and I know that he’s going to go out there every day and make progress toward being able to grip the ball. I don’t know that you could ask for better news technically, physically in how it’s responding, how it’s healing so to speak,” Jones said. “And, so, all of those things are on go, and I don’t know that you could make any more progress. There’s some things here about healing that I often say only the man upstairs knows how that works. But he’ll have a big week and he’ll be hard on himself getting ready to go.”
And whenever Prescott is ready to go, he will return to the lineup at the team’s starting quarterback.
Just two weeks after sowing the seeds of a controversy himself by openly dreaming of having quarterback dilemma between Rush and Prescott, based on the hopes of Rush continuing to win, Jones is now trying to put the genie back in the bottle.
Jones said there is no scenario where Cowboys would stick with Cooper Rush over a healthy Prescott.
“No. No. As I see it right today,” Jones said.
