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Prescott ready for prime time: 'Everybody wants to see us play'

Matthew Emmons / USA TODAY Sports

Once expected to be a reserve player this season, Dak Prescott has helped lead the Dallas Cowboys back to being "America's Team," and he's excited at the prospect of performing in from of a national audience.

With the Cowboys on an 11-game winning streak, their popularity is as high as ever, earning an extra prime-time game in Week 15. They will play four straight prime-time games - the first time a team has ever done so - and the rookie quarterback is far from afraid of the extra attention.

"We're America's Team. I feel like everybody wants to see us play," Prescott said, via Brandon George of the Dallas Morning News. "It's exciting. I feel like the Cowboys are always on prime time, but to be in the position we're in, winning like we are, playing the way we are, it makes for better football."

Though they've already clinched a playoff spot and sit as the league's top team currently, the Cowboys aren't settling for regular season success. They're hoping to get even more eyes on their team in the postseason.

"Making the playoffs is not good enough," running back Alfred Morris said. "There are plenty of teams that make it to the playoffs, but there are only two who can make it to the Big Dance, and that's everyone's goal at the beginning of the year is to make it to the Super Bowl."

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