Jones: Prescott is QB of the present — and future

FRISCO, Texas — The heat is on Dak Prescott to bring the Cowboys back from the dead Sunday night against the Giants, but the quarterback was given a vote of confidence — for this season and beyond — from the most important voice in the organization.

“I have tremendous confidence in Dak,” Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said Friday morning on 105.3 The Fan’s G-Bag Nation show. “I feel so good about Sunday. I feel good about our future. I don’t want to be trite, but teams have lost games and have had bad games with the best quarterbacks there’s ever been.”

Prescott left plenty to be desired in the Cowboys’ season-opening 16-8 loss to the Panthers. He completed 19 of 29 passes for 170 yards, but never found the end zone. He was sacked six times and was not much of a threat with his legs, rushing five times for 19 yards.

But Prescott’s mediocre Week 1, and the string of more concerning games that date back to last season, have not changed Jones’ faith in the quarterback he picked in the fourth-round of the 2016 draft.

“You can have an outing that you’d like to have back, but man alive, one of the strengths of our team going in against the Giants or one of the strengths of our team as far as I can see into the future is Dak Prescott,” Jones said. “He will do what it takes to win the ballgame. Does he win them all? No. It wouldn’t be right. It wouldn’t be entertaining. Do I wish it were that way for the Cowboys? You bet.”

While Prescott is working behind an offensive line that features two new starters — and is missing All-Pro center Travis Frederick, who has been sidelined by an autoimmune disease — he is also breaking in an almost entirely new group of receivers. Jones also said he expects that connection to improve Sunday in what he said will be “a tough ballgame.”

As for the photo that went viral earlier in the week — Jones sitting next to Dez Bryant at the Beyonce and Jay-Z concert at AT&T Sta- dium — Jones said it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, despite having released the Cowboys receiver in April. Jones said they did not talk football, but instead enjoyed the music.

“It would have been a surprise for him not to be there,” Jones said. “Life is one of relationships and when you’re with someone for years … you create a relationship. Some of the best friends I have are former players.”