{"id":49212,"date":"2025-05-18T07:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T07:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=49212"},"modified":"2025-05-18T07:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T07:37:53","slug":"breaking-dak-prescott-not-respected-in-cowboys-locker-room-espn-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=49212","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Dak Prescott \u2018Not Respected\u2019 in Cowboys Locker Room ESPN Claims.."},"content":{"rendered":"
The Stephen A. Smith suggestion that the Dallas locker room doesn’t respect Cowboys QB Dak Prescott is an inane, insulting and irresponsible one.<\/div>\n
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FRISCO – There is no question that\u00a0Stephen A. Smith\u00a0is very, very good at what he does.<\/p>\n

The question is … what is it that the $100 million ESPN loudmouth does, exactly?<\/p>\n

Stephen A. has made a handsome living in part due to talent, in part due to work ethic and in part due to cartoonish trolling of the team he pretends to hate …<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n

It’s mostly junky low-brow comedy that comes out of this, with only the most casual\u00a0Cowboys fans bothering to wonder if it carries any weight.<\/p>\n

But every once in a while, the bellowing self-parody of a journalist forgets his place and goes too far … pretending to know things that are well beyond his grasp and essentially lying to unsuspecting millions in his audience.<\/p>\n

And Smith just did that.<\/p>\n

The ESPN host is now questioning whether Dak Prescott commands true respect in the Dallas Cowboys locker room.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo people respect the man who doesn\u2019t show up in January?\u201d he said, with that patented smirk and manufactured conviction.<\/p>\n

Forget football for a moment, and whether you think Dak is …<\/p>\n

-“Worth $60 million per year.”<\/p>\n

-A “top-5 QB” or “not in the top 20.”<\/p>\n

-“A good player who has not and therefore will not lift his team to real playoff success.”<\/p>\n

Those are all legit questions and subject to debate.<\/p>\n

But … leadership? A question about whether he commands a room that Stephen A. – who I don’t believe really knows whether a football is pumped up or stuffed – has never stepped foot in?<\/p>\n

The suggestion that the Dallas locker room doesn’t respect Dak is an inane, insulting and irresponsible one.<\/p>\n

There is no person inside or near The Star who thinks that, and I’m reminded of no less an authority that Troy Aikman once telling me that Prescott is a fine a leader as Troy has ever encountered – as high a praise as one can imagine.<\/p>\n

And we’ve known for a long time that he doesn’t get the “football part” of anything.<\/p>\n

Stephen A. Smith is an actor on a stage, not a football analyst. But that doesn’t free him from achieving some level of responsibility.<\/p>\n

Be funny, ESPN.<\/p>\n

Make noise, ESPN.<\/p>\n

Seek attention, ESPN.<\/p>\n

But, ESPN … don’t lie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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