FRASCO – We’ve often written in this space that the Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has the gift to “compartmentalize” all aspects of his life.
He did it with the suicide of his beloved brother Jess in April … and now he’s talking about that special “burden.”
“As much as you ask, I knew my brother,” Prescott said, “in depth with Graham Bansinger.” “It simply came to our notice then. He had a lot of tough things and I have a sense of saying that he showed me how vulnerable we are as human beings, how open we are. Our adversity, our struggles (and) what we go through is always too much for us (and) maybe for one or two people, but never too much for the community or family you like. So you have to share those things. “
Jess was 31, one of three Prescott brothers grieving the death of her mother, Peggy, in 2013.
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“She saw the time where she’s probably been thrown for more than 10 hours,” Dak said of Jess, “and saw the medicine he was supposed to take. Almost, you can’t put a burden on words.”
“I mean, he knew something about Jess. And he didn’t share it.”
Prescott, who is featured in an interview with brother Ted, and of course – as part of “compartmentalizing”, also preparing to draw the Cowboys in the NFL season starting with Sunday’s Week 1 game at Rams – he said he learned from his father About the death of the brother who woke him up with this news.
“Obviously tears and tears and tears,” Prescott said of his reaction. “I mean, I was sitting there and trying to collect what happened, and wanted to ask why for so many reasons. … I will never get another hug like the one he gave. ”
