Brandin Cooks: Cowboys need to help Dak Prescott from an organizational level

Brandin Cooks spoke on how the Cowboys organization needs to help Dak Prescott.

The Dallas Cowboys have already seen a number of their players find new homes in free agency. Jourdan Lewis and Chuma Edoga are headed to the Jacksonville Jaguars while Chauncey Golston is now a part of the New York Giants. And DeMarcus Lawrence is now with the Seattle Seahawks.

Time will tell where Brandin Cooks is going to play. Maybe he will return to his 1,000 yards in a season ways with a team that isn’t the Cowboys. It was Dallas where that streak of his (he had at least 1,000 yards once with the four teams he played with prior to joining the Cowboys) ended.

Even though Cooks never reached 1,000 yards with the Cowboys, he appears to think of his time with the franchise fondly. Cooks recently sat down with DLLS Sports to discuss a number of things and the subject of Dak Prescott came up.

Specifically, the subject of whether or not criticism of Dak was fair or not came up.

“What people don’t understand in my opinion from a quarterback position… yeah, this is why they get paid the big bucks so I don’t feel for him. But at the same time, he needs help. And I’m not just saying help from players. You need help as an organization. You need to put his teammates in places where they can receive the most help to be the healthiest they can possibly be. Just taking things off his plate when it comes to play-calling and stuff like that. And so it’s an umbrella of things that a quarterback needs to winning.”

Cooks called out, in his own words, the Cowboys organization for not helping Prescott more. To be clear his point could be applied to anyone on the team, but obviously he was asked about Prescott and playing quarterback comes with a larger spotlight.

Interestingly, Cooks mentioned that the organization needs to put Dak’s teammates in places where they can receive help to be healthy. The Cowboys training staff came under fire again in the NFLPA Team Report cards, it stands to reason that this could be what Cooks is referring to, at least on some level.

The point of this discussion is not to say woe is Dak Prescott. The franchise has failed throughout his career to this point and he certainly has a hand in that. But not only do we needn’t blame Dak for all of it, we need to focus on how the organization can help him and everyone else. It appears they are falling short of a very important bar.