Is it time to drop or bench Dak Prescott?

The Dallas Cowboys have a pass play in their playbook called Duquesne. With coach Mike McCarthy taking over play calling this offseason, changes in concept and terminology were expected. For McCarthy a Pittsburgh native naming a play after a small, Pittsburgh-area city isnt surprising.

The Dallas Cowboys have a pass play in their playbook called “Duquesne.” With coach Mike McCarthy taking over play calling this offseason, changes in concept and terminology were expected. For McCarthy — a Pittsburgh native — naming a play after a small, Pittsburgh-area city isn’t surprising.

In the education phase of the new offense, McCarthy and quarterback Dak Prescott had a conversation about Duquesne. Beyond the play itself, there was confusion about the pronunciation. The correct pronunciation, phonetically, is “doo-kayn” but a common mispronunciation is “do-ques-nee.” In front of a crowd, Prescott asked McCarthy how the coach would like to call it.

“I said, ‘It’s your huddle,’” McCarthy recalled telling Prescott. “’How do you want to call it?’ He said, ‘doo-kayn.’ I said, ‘It’s doo-kayn.’”

With the moves they made, the Cowboys eliminated ambiguity in accountability on the offensive side of the ball this past offseason. There was no more guessing who gets the credit or the blame for the successes and failures of the offense between McCarthy, a longtime offensive mind and play caller in Green Bay, and Kellen Moore, the official offensive coordinator and play caller for McCarthy’s first three years as coach in Dallas. By saying goodbye to Moore, whose Chargers offense the Cowboys will face Monday night in Los Angeles, everything was put at the feet of McCarthy.

Well, sort of.

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