As speculated: dak was on a leash.
Per article:
As the Dallas Cowboys entered their bye week, the "Texas Coast Offense’’ had largely underwhelmed, but whatever happened at The Star over that time to fix some of the issues seems to have worked.
The offense had yet to show it could be consistently explosive, and coach Mike McCarthy knew changes needed to be made.
Against the Los Angeles Rams, as the offense scored 24 first-half points behind Dak Prescott’s 255 passing yards and three touchdowns, he revealed that part of what we saw at AT&T Stadium was letting Prescott off the leash.
With coordinator Dan Quinn’s defense doing its part to keep the score down- in four of their six games, they allowed 17 points or less- and also generating scores from takeaways, the offense, for some, wasn’t pulling its weight. The narrative was that Dallas relied too much on the defense to generate scores.
That type of play isn’t sustainable, and McCarthy revealed that during the bye week, he knew that things needed to change.
“I think it was more confirmation of just we need to get going, we need more production from the offense,” McCarthy said. “I think a big part of that is trusting your players and opening things up.
"We have a lot of football to play, and conceptually, we got some things we still haven’t got to yet, but to me, that first trimester [of the season], you show what you think you want to be coming out of the offseason. Then you start getting into variations of those concepts, so I think we’re starting to hit that.”
The Cowboys’ offense certainly looked different than the previous six weeks as they torched the Rams’ secondary, but a tougher challenge awaits against the Philadelphia Eagles.
Just a couple of weeks ago it was “Cut Dak!”