All the details on Dak Prescott and DeMarcus Lawrence’s bet

The Cowboys are calm in the NFC East with another win against a division rival. On Sunday afternoon, they beat the Giants 21-6 on the road. With this positive result, they hold a 10-4 record and are already calm on the road to the postseason.

However, there are some shortcomings in the Cowboys game and practically all of them point to the offensive game. The team is struggling hard to get results in the end zone, and Prescott’s passing game hasn’t exactly been the best in recent weeks. In short, the offense is far from what we saw the first weeks of the season.

Therefore, it is the defense that has been showing its face all these last days. In fact, both the victory against the Saints and the Washington team have been attributed to the cowboy defense. And in the case of the Giants, something very similar happened.

In any case, after the match on Sunday afternoon it was learned that the day before two figures of the team made a bet to see which of the two groups would do better. The protagonists were Dak Prescott and DeMarcus Lawrence. In the case of the first, he bet because the offense would make more scores. While on the side of D-Law, that the defense would recover the ball more.

Looking at the game as a whole, the defense won this bet. Since it managed to get four recoveries, including three interceptions from Jourdan Lewis, Malik Hooker and Trevon Diggs. While an extra recovery would come from a fumble from DeMarcus Lawrence himself. Ball that Carlos Watkins would end up recovering at the rivals’ 46 yard line.

“I let everyone know that the defense is kicking our butt,” Prescott said at a news conference. “Obviously they won this time. But we will make sure it stays, they are doing a great job recovering the ball. “

Cowboys DE DeMarcus Lawrence bet QB Dak Prescott yesterday that D would snag more takeaways than offense would score TDs.

“The defense is kicking our ass,” Dak days after day of 4 takeaways and 2 TDs. pic.twitter.com/wpcLo1wcz5

– Jori Epstein (@JoriEpstein) December 19, 2021

However, we must highlight the fact that even if the bet is fun, it does not stop covering the problems that the Cowboys have on offense. They barely managed two annotations, also losing the extra points. And despite the recoveries, on some occasions they failed to capitalize properly. In action by DeMarcus Lawrence and Carlos Watkins, Dallas could only get a 27-yard field goal from Greg Zuerlein.

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— Dallas Cowboys (@dallascowboys) December 19, 2021

“It’s frustrating,” Prescott added of the offensive production. “Like I said, the defense is doing a great job winning the ball for us and in enemy territory. We have to find a way to get to the end zone, as simple as that. “

On the other hand, defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence praised his group’s production and hinted that they will go for more in the remainder of the season. “It’s amazing to be on a team with amazing defense,” said D-Law. “There is nothing better than that. You just have to beat the offense in scoring now ”.

Everything seems to indicate that the bet will continue because it is a final count until the end of the regular season. “The credit goes to them, but this is still ongoing,” Prescott said. “We will catch up, although I honestly prefer it not to be. I hope they continue to have recoveries. “

Despite the current state of the offense, Jerry Jones commented that he liked the friendly bets within the team as it reminds him of an old-school mentality. Specifically, to the figures of the generation of the 90.

Jerry Jones said he didn’t know about the offense/defense bet TD vs turnovers, but it reminded him of Deion Sanders-Michael Irvin days in the 1990s when they had bets in practice.

— Calvin Watkins (@calvinwatkins) December 19, 2021

“I love it,” Jones said. “I have seen some of the most productive growth in teams when they have been making some bets between the same elements. Deion Sanders and Michael Irvin used to bet $ 50,000 per practice on two-minute drills to determine the winner at the end of the day. “

It is really expected that both sides of the ball can produce too much as at the beginning of the season. The offense knows they have been in debt for several weeks and they can’t let the defense do it all. In which case, the ingredient in this bet may help in the games to come. A little extra motivation wouldn’t hurt, as there are still two division rivals and a game against the Cardinals at home. Likewise, everything is in place for Dallas to be in the postseason, but we must be more forceful still.