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FRISCO, Texas — Dak Prescott’s backyard football turf stretches 45 yards long plus another 10 yards of end zone.
Right and left hash marks further guide work on the project he completed in late June. His “D4K” logo is spray-painted in blue across the middle of the field, visible from the balcony that overlooks Prescott’s pool and backyard. There’s a nod, also, to his mother’s dying wishes: her mantra 'FAITH' painted across the end zone, a silhouette of Prescott’s signature point skyward adorning the 'A.'
It’s a stretch of North Texas land that lies much more dormant in August than it did in July. For nearly a month, Prescott says, he hosted his teammates for workouts two to three times per week.
“It was tough to find a place to throw,” Prescott said. “I put the foot down and said, ‘Hey, let’s get it going, it can give me somewhere every offseason.’”
Prescott wanted to ensure he could work with his offensive weapons through spring and summer. Last summer, he flew teammates to San Diego to train and bond. But travel was a no-go during the coronavirus pandemic. Players couldn’t access NFL facilities. Local gyms were closed or subject to strict capacity and distancing rules. Prescott sought a training venue that he could control, eliminating public access or concerns that a fan would decide to record and circulate footage of his workout.
© LM Otero, AP Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) points while taking a break during NFL football practice in Frisco, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020.“I’m a guy that kind of likes to work in the dark, I guess you could say,” Prescott said Thursday after Cowboys practice. “Just come out and show what I’ve been doing. Just give me a sense of privacy, a sense of peace I can have the guys over there and get a lot of work in, still doing what I need to do.”
The field became the venue of choice for running back Ezekiel Elliott to home in on pass-catching and route-running technique from the line of scrimmage. Rookie receiver CeeDee Lamb, the organization’s first-round draft pick at No. 17, convinced Prescott of his sticky hands and field awareness before Lamb ever formally reported to work. Returning receivers like Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup stayed fresh, improving their own game and coaching Lamb on his. Blake Jarwin continued his ascent to the organization’s top tight end in the wake of Jason Witten’s departure.
“Pretty incredible,” Jarwin deemed the turf, noting he’d probably need a bigger backyard if he ever wanted to commission a turf himself.
Cowboys TE Blake Jarwin worked out on Dak Prescott’s backyard field (below) this summer.
“That thing’s pretty incredible. Like 50-60 yards of turf,” Blake tells us. “He did a great job getting us all together. Making sure we were still working out. .. Man, he’s been locked in.” pic.twitter.com/i7HDIj1pAb
— Jori Epstein (@JoriEpstein) August 16, 2020“Dak wants to win, he wants to practice hard and he wants to make sure everybody is on the same page,” Gallup said. “Him having the resources to do that, whenever he wants to, whenever we want to, great team-building. Dak being a leader like he is, we just appreciate that.”
Five practices into training camp, Prescott and his teammates are working before a different backdrop. Most have packed up and checked into the Omni Hotel adjacent to the Star. On Thursday, they practiced fundamentals outside on the grass before working through team period on the indoor turf at the Ford Center. Gone are the post-workout swims in Prescott’s pool, the visits that Gallup acknowledges didn’t include snacks.
“If we needed it, I’m pretty positive (he’d have given us snacks),” Gallup laughed. “But we didn’t really ask.”
Now, camaraderie is built during team meetings and game walkthroughs. The Cowboys have set up a game room with snacks at the Omni, a stash that Thursday was scheduled to be available to players from 8-11 p.m. Players flock to cold tubs instead of Prescott’s pool—and even in the cold tub, Prescott is making new friends. Meet Mexico native Isaac Alarcón, a 22-year-old offensive lineman who arrived via the NFL’s International Player Pathway program.
“I love Isaac, ‘the Great Isaac’ is what I call him,” Prescott said. “I was able to share a conversation with him in the cold tub about his past, where he’s from, how Mexico was, how it was playing football over there, his brother.
“I told him he’s opening the doors for so many people. He’s an inspiration, honestly.”
Prescott’s knack for connecting with teammates doesn’t discriminate by position or depth of roster. Prescott’s skill-position players laud his command and grit. Defensive end Everson Griffen signed with the Cowboys on Aug. 12, but Prescott had already befriended the vet as teammates on the 2016 NFC Pro Bowl squad.
“He has a personality that bounces off all the walls when you’re in the room with him,” Prescott said.
Even backup quarterback Andy Dalton, in another man’s shadow after nine years starting in Cincinnati, praised both Prescott’s command and his personality.
“It’s one of those things where it’s been a great friendship,” Dalton said, “and we’ll be friends for the rest of our lives.”
Prescott, of course, isn’t chasing friendships alone. The quarterback wants to prove he can carry the franchise past the postseason divisional round it’s been eliminated in during two of his four season. He wants to demonstrate he can maximize his array of offensive weapons, stepping up his field communication in the wake of five-time Pro Bowl center Travis Frederick's retirement. He’s excited about a training camp of defensive coverages from Mike Nolan that he doesn’t recognize, requiring the quarterback to decide more intentionally which read to pursue in situational drills. He’s running routes in two-minute drills in McCarthy’s “quarterback school,” a drill that deepens his perspective. And Prescott isn’t sweating as both his starting tackles nurse injuries in camp.
“It’s going to make me a better player, to be honest,” Prescott said. “Moving within the pocket and still getting the ball out on time. Or creating me to scramble and us being able to teach scramble rules off of that. The game happens so much from outside of the pocket that I think it’s great for us to be able to know where we’re all going to go when that happens.”
Mike McCarthy starts practice with a segment he calls 'quarterback school.' We watched today for first time. Fun to see 2-minute drill, where one QB throws as the others run routes. Andy Dalton hit Dak on an out during one rep
(📷: Dallas Cowboys) pic.twitter.com/c2akIEIcBX
— Jori Epstein (@JoriEpstein) August 17, 2020The circumstances surrounding NFL play will likely evolve in the pandemic. The Cowboys know to expect some growing pains as a first-year coach hustles to compensate for lost offseason time. But Prescott is confident he and his teammates’ summer work in the dark will catapult the Cowboys when the lights again shine bright.
“It’s the privacy of creating this special bond that you guys have,” Prescott said. “Because when it’s the heat of the moment, when it’s the fourth quarter, two-minute drive—you’ve got to know who you’ve got on your side. You’ve got to know what those guys are going to do for you and they’ve got to know how hard you’re going to go and how prepared you’re going to be for them.
“I think that’s where all that is created, and it’s just created natural when you’re able to do it in those type of settings.”
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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: From backyard football to cold-tub conversation, Cowboys QB Dak Prescott leads teammates
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| Backyard Football | |
|---|---|
| Genre(s) | Sports |
| Developer(s) | Humongous Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Humongous Entertainment Infogrames Atari The Evergreen Group |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Wii, Windows, Xbox 360, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, Macintosh, Nintendo GameCube |
| First release | Backyard Football 1999 |
| Latest release | Backyard Sports: Rookie Rush 2010 |
Backyard Football is a series of video games for various systems. The series was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari. It is one of several sub-series in the Backyard Sports series, and is the first to feature professional players as kids, examples being Steve Young and Barry Sanders. The series currently has eleven titles.
Backyard Football attempts to recreate the experience of playing American football as children.
Titles[edit]
| Title | Year | Platforms | Cover Athlete |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backyard Football | September 14, 1999 | Macintosh, Microsoft Windows | Steve Young |
| Backyard Football 2002 | 2001 | Macintosh, Windows | Drew Bledsoe, Donovan McNabb |
| Backyard Football | 2002 | Game Boy Advance | Donovan McNabb |
| Backyard Football | 2002 | Nintendo GameCube | |
| Backyard Football 2004 | 2003 | Windows | Jeff Garcia |
| Backyard Football 2006 | 2005 | Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, Windows | Daunte Culpepper |
| Backyard Sports Football 2007 | 2006 | Game Boy Advance | Ben Roethlisberger |
| Backyard Football '08 | 2007 | Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Wii, Windows | Tom Brady |
| Backyard Football '09 | 2008 | Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Wii, Windows | |
| Backyard Football '10 | 2009 | PlayStation 2, Wii, Xbox 360 | Frank Gore, Eli Manning, Kurt Warner, Peyton Manning, Adrian Peterson, Jason Witten |
| Backyard Sports: Rookie Rush | 2010 | Nintendo DS, Wii, Xbox 360 | N/A |
Backyard Football[edit]
Backyard Football, the third 'Backyard' game, was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by GT Interactive in 1999. In it, kids and professional football players as kids play football. There are three types of gameplay available in Backyard football. The first one is a single game. At the single game screen, the player can select the field on which they wish to play, the weather (between sunny, where the players are able to run very quickly; rainy, in which the players are slowed somewhat and the ball is difficult to throw; and snowy, where players are slowed considerably), and the level of difficulty (between easy, medium, and hard), among various other minor settings. They then pick their team name, which can be any of the then-31 NFL teams and 10 backyard teams. When the team is chosen, a player would take turns choosing players with the CPU. There are a total of seven players on a team, two of which will be on the bench, while five get to see action. The statistics of a player in single game mode have no effect on a player's statistics in season play.
The second type of gameplay is season mode. The player selects their coach name, settings, and team before the season and drafts all seven of their players before the CPU picks any for the rest of the computer controlled teams in the league. The coach guides their team through a 14-game season, at the end of which if they are to win their division or be picked as the wild card, the team will compete in the playoffs. Eight teams, four from each conference, compete in three rounds of games to determine the winner of the 'Super Colossal Cereal Bowl' (which is a spoof of the Super Bowl in the NFL).
The third type of gameplay is online play. Backyard Football is the only game, along with Backyard Baseball 2001, that offers online play with players across the globe. Online play is hosted through the Junior Sports Network, and is only available for Windows users, since the network system does not support Macintosh. Since www.jrsn.com has been discontinued, no new coach names may be registered to play online. While playing online, the player may make contact with another coach online. They may then chat with each other with only pre-written dialogue, since the network is not being monitored to make sure no inappropriate language is used. Like Backyard Baseball 2001, there are three modes of difficulty: Easy, Medium, and Hard. The harder the difficulty, it becomes less likely that the players out on the field are going to make magnificent plays to 'bail the coach out'.
Backyard Football 2002[edit]
Backyard Football 2002 was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Infogrames in 2001 for Windows and Macintosh. A planned release for the Game Boy Color was cancelled.[1] In this game, one can play as their favorite NFL stars as kids. Brett Favre and Drew Bledsoe, who both appear in the first Backyard Football, returns in this game. The goal of the game is to lead a team to Cereal Bowl glory. Updated versions of the game were published yearly on various platforms through Backyard Football 2006.
Backyard Sports Football 2007[edit]
Backyard Sports Football 2007 was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari in 2006 for the Game Boy Advance. Like the previous installment in the series, Backyard Sports Football 2007 featured the ability to create your own player, build your own team, play exhibition games or a season mode, and play as a number of NFL players as their childhood lookalikes. It also added 7-on-7 gameplay for the first time.[2]Backyard Sports Football 2007 received negative reviews, being criticized for its repetitive sound and poor gameplay.[3] The sound is described was described as 'annoying, repetitious music' by a reviewer at GameZone.[3] The gameplay was described as poor by the same reviewer due to 'irresponsive controls' and a lack of playbook options.[3]
Backyard Football '08[edit]
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| Aggregator | Score |
|---|---|
| GameRankings | 60% (Wii)[4] 15% (DS)[5] |
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| IGN | 6/10 (Wii)[6] 1.5/10 (DS)[7] |
Backyard Football '08 was released on September 26, 2007 for the Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, and PC. Humongous Entertainment handled development, with assistance by FarSight Studios and Torus Games. It was published by Atari. The game allows the player to play as child versions of professional football players from all current NFL teams, as well as play entire football seasons as any of the 16 teams.
IGN rated the Wii version of the game a 6/10 and criticized it for having controls that may be hard for a younger audience to understand, while praising its commentary for being funny.[6] Honda xr 250y manual.
Backyard Football '09[edit]
| Aggregator | Score |
|---|---|
| GameRankings | 68% (Wii)[8] |
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| GameZone | 6.8/10 (Wii)[9] |
Backyard Football '09 was developed and published by the same studios as the previous installment, and released on the same systems on October 31, 2008. The game includes all 22 backyard kids and 15 professional players as kids. Professional players include Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Tony Romo, LaDainian Tomlinson, Brian Urlacher, Reggie Bush, Chris Cooley and Frank Gore and more.[10] Along with the NFL players, most of the classic backyard kids are in the game including Pete Wheeler, Pablo Sanchez, and Ernie Steele. Both of the commentators, Chuck Downfield and Sunny Day, are also from previous games of the series.
Backyard Football '09 was said to be 'repetitive with its commentary' and 'made too simple and easy' from many reviews. The reviews state that the game targets more of a pre-teen audience.[11][12][13]
Backyard Football '10[edit]
| Aggregator | Score |
|---|---|
| GameRankings | 57.50% (X360)[14] 65% (Wii)[15] |
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| OXM (US) | 6/10 |
| ZTGameDomain | 6.5/10 (X360)[17] |
Backyard Football '10 was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari on October 20, 2009 for the Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation 2. The game features 'Single Player,' 'Season,' 'Tournament,' and 'All Pro' modes, along with the multiplayer modes of co-op play and two-on-two contests.[18]
The game received mixed reviews for the Xbox 360 and Wii versions, but negative reviews for the PS2 version.[14][15][16] For the Xbox 360 version, ZTGameDomain said that the game is 'simple, easy to pick up and really well designed'.[17]
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Backyard Sports: Rookie Rush[edit]
Backyard Sports: Rookie Rush was developed by Humongous Entertainment and published by Atari on October 26, 2010 for the Xbox 360, Wii, Microsoft Windows, and Nintendo DS. This title features the previously created 'Pick-up Games', 'Season Mode', and 'Tournament', and introduces two new styles of gameplay, 'Story Mode' and 'Mini-Games'.[19]
Common Sense Media gave the game 4 out of 5 stars.[20] The game received 2 out of 5 stars from AllGame.[21]
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- ^'Backyard Sports Football video game - NFL - video games for kids from Humungous, Inc'. Humungous Inc. Archived from the original on 14 July 2006. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
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- ^'Backyard Football for Wii'. GameRankings. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
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- ^'Backyard Football '09 - WII - Review'. GameZone. 14 December 2008. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- ^'Backyard Football '09 Pro Roster'. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ^'Backyard Football '09 Review'. 25 November 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ^'Backyard Football '09 Super Bowl review'. 30 January 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ^'Hands On: Backyard Football 09'. 12 September 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ^ ab'Backyard Football '10 for Xbox 360 - GameRankings'. GameRankings. October 20, 2009. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
- ^ ab'Backyard Football '10 for Wii - GameRankings'. GameRankings. October 20, 2009. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
- ^ ab'Backyard Football '10 for PlayStation 2 - GameRankings'. GameRankings. October 20, 2009. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
- ^ abMcKown, Ken (October 20, 2009). 'Backyard Football 2010 – ZTGD'. ZTGameDomain. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
- ^'Backyard Football '10 - Overview - allgame'. Allgame. October 20, 2009. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
- ^'Backyard Sports: Rookie Rush Arrives Oct. 26'. StreetCorner Media. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ^'Backyard Sports: Rookie Rush Game Review'. Common Sense Media. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ^Alan Scott, Marriott. 'Backyard Sports: Rookie Rush Overview'. AllGame. Retrieved 7 April 2014.