Dallas Cowboys QB Demands Worker Be Removed for Calling Him Out on ‘Embarrassing’ Loss

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott answers questions after an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Arlington, Texas on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Sam Hodde)

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was called out for his team’s devastating loss to the previously winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers by a worker inside his own stadium on Thursday night — and had quite a lot to say about it.

Prescott, 33, was walking down the tunnel with the team following the loss at AT&T Stadium when a man could be heard calling out “embarrassing” as the QB walked by.

The moment, caught on video by reporters who posted the footage to X, shows Prescott turn to look back at the man before telling another employee “Tough guy. Get his *ss outta here.”

Prescott had calmed down by the post-game presser enough to admit the man, who was later identified as a driver, had a point.

“I mean, not that they’re wrong,” he said, according to USA Today. “But the thing was, you know, I just … I don’t know if it was an employee, if it was a driver, whoever it was, he’s free to speak his mind.”

The player took exception by what happened after he heard the man and looked back, he said.

“You know, when he said it, I just happened to look at him, and at that point he looked away, didn’t look, and then when I turned my head back he said something else,” Prescott said. “That’s the part, just as a man or as a person, feel free to speak your mind. Just speak it. Don’t coward away from the reaction that you’re going to get.”

He added: “If you’re saying it’s embarrassing, say it’s embarrassing, if you’re saying it to me then say it to me. You know what I mean? … Hate it that it’s even being talked about, to be honest with you.”

He then credited the Buccaneers for the game they played, even though the loss dropped his team to 2-3 on the season.

“To use the word embarrassing is tough. I feel like I’m discrediting the NFL if I use that and particularly the Tampa Bay Bucs and a great Todd Bowles, defensive-coached team. … The plan and what [Tampa Bay] did tonight is the reason for [the loss]. To say embarrassing I think I’d be discrediting them, but we were definitely supposed to win this game.”

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