(corrected re-post)

February 27 2023
https://247sports.com/Article/Dak-Prescott-can-still-end-Dallas-Cowboys-Super-Bowl-drought-Stephen-Jones-explains-205426406/

Dallas Cowboys executive vice president
Stephen Jones is confident quarterback
Dak Prescott & guide the franchise to its
1st Super Bowl title since 1995, despite
continued playoff shortcomings in the ...

.... Prescott era. Jones, the son of Cowboys
owner & general manager Jerry Jones, said
Prescott has all the qualities one wants in
a quarterback and simply must "get over the
hump."

Sidenote: The article erred as to when Dak
was drafted, Dak was drafted by the Cowboys
in the 4th round (135th overall) of the 2016
draft.

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"get over the hump" meaning
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22get+over+the+hump%22+meaning

.... Over the hump began as an idiom used by
American servicemen, describing flying over
the Himalayas. In the early 1940s, the United
States flew supplies to Chiang Kai-shek in
China, who was fighting the Japanese. The
Hump was a slang term for the route over the
Himalayas.

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Viewing the playoffs as a metaphor for the
Himalayas or the highest mountains in the
world, one might think of the Cowboys as
having trouble climbing over the 3rd highest
mountain in the world, Mt Kangchenjunga,
since 1995:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/highest-mountains-full.html

The Cowboys have gotten to Mt Kangchen-
junga, the Divisional playoff mountain, but
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangchenjunga )
not able to climb over it in 1996, 2007, 2009,
2014, 2016, 2018, & 2022, 7 straight losses.

Mt K2, the NFC Conference Championship
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2 ) mountain,
the 2nd highest mountain in the world, the
Cowboys haven't gotten there since 1995, a
year the Cowboys last won an NFC Champi-
onship, climbing over it & making it all the ...

.... way to Mt. Everest, the highest mountain
in the world, & climbing over it, winning their
5th Super Bowl.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest )

Mt Llotse, the wild card playoff mountain,
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhotse )
the 4th highest mountain in the world, the
Cowboys have made it there & climbed
over it 5 times since 1995, in 1996, 2009,
2014, 2018, & 2022.

Mt Llotse, the Cowboys have made it there
& not climbed over it 5 times since 1995,
in 1998, 1999, 2003, 2006, & 2021.

Dallas Cowboys Playoff History
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/dal/playoffs.htm

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