The HBO show premieres on Tuesday night.
NFL Films watched on July 28 when Dak Prescott and Mike McCarthy convened on the field. NFL Films listened when the Cowboys quarterback told his head coach, who is wired for audio every practice, that his throwing arm didn’t quite feel right.
From a distance, the production crew with earpieces and zoomed-in camera lenses monitored Prescott in the minutes to come.
His walk around the field.
His jog off of it for medical evaluation.
“We’re actually pretty quiet when something like that happens,” said Shannon Furman, director of NFL Films’ latest Hard Knocks season.