Michael Irvin responds to calls to replace Dak Prescott: 'Shut the hell up'

Exiting another postseason empty-handed has some Dallas Cowboys fans calling for the end of the Dak Prescott era in the Metroplex. The 2016 fourth-round pick had some of the best performances of his career this season. However, he also set a new career mark in interceptions, including two more in the Sunday night loss to the 49ers.

Despite the team’s failure to move past the second round of the playoffs yet again, former Cowboys wideout Michael Irvin is fully against Dallas going on a hunt for another quarterback. On 105.3 The Fan on Wednesday, Irvin told the Dak haters to kindly “shut the hell up.”

“We say that as if it’s going to the store and putting down some money, paying for some candy,” Irvin said. “It doesn’t work that way. Teams out there are looking for quarterbacks for 25 years, 30 years. No, you don’t get rid of a quarterback and look for another one. If you stumble on another one then you look at maybe getting rid of this one. But you don’t move that kind of way in the NFL.

“If people are saying that, shut the hell up, you’re doing to put us in an even bigger hole than we’re already in. At least we’re in the fight right now. Just shut up, enjoy, don’t talk football, just enjoy.”

Speaking of quarterbacks the Cowboys stumbled upon, Prescott was one of them. Tony Romo, though aging, was still the starter when Dallas drafted the Mississippi State star with the 135th overall pick. He only took over as a rookie because Romo suffered a vertebrae fracture after fracturing his clavicle the season prior. After a four-interception rookie season, Prescott secured the gig.

Irvin: Cowboys needed ‘one more pop’

Michael Irvin clearly believes in Prescott, but he also knows the Cowboys needed more talent to beat San Francisco on Sunday. The talent they do have let several big plays slip.

“We needed something else offensively in that game, one more pop, it seemed like there were plays there for us to make versus San Francisco and it just didn’t happen,” Irvin said. “Trevon Diggs, it hits his hand, it was a tipped ball and hard to catch but you missed those plays.

“This was a perfect machine right here, if you would have beaten SF, oh my god, it would have been incredible.”