How Dak Prescott built ‘brotherhood’ with Cowboys teammates
“…The benefits go beyond football.
For the second straight year, Prescott had O2X, a human performance group made up of ex-military personnel that helps deal with stress management and resiliency. O2X, short for “Optimize to the X”, worked with the entire Cowboys roster during minicamp in June and spent time with them again in the first week of training camp.
The message has evolved the more they have been around the players.
“They teach me how to think as a player, how to think in critical situations, how to just get out there and ball,” Ferguson said. “But it’s also about knowing your guys. How do you respond? What do I think my role is? And then you get other people’s input. It’s really important.”
Said Rush, “It’s about getting 1% better every day and different techniques for what they do in the military to grow closer because, obviously, they have real life-or-death missions. That stuff matters. They try to translate that into our world and see what we can take from it.”
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