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This time, it’s Dak Prescott trying to smother the disappointment and project optimism.

All three teams are led by three quarterbacks who seemingly could do no wrong this season, be it Buffalo’s Josh Allen shucking off 270-pound defensive ends with ease, Dallas’s Dak Prescott leading a talented offense to 34.1 points per game through his six starts and Las Vegas’s Derek Carr earning M.V.P. whispers with his fourth-quarter heroics.

Jai Chakrabarti’s novel “A Play for the End of the World” opens on a staging of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Dak Ghar,” a 1912 play about a quarantined child traveling the world through his imagination.

It seems increasingly unlikely that Dallas’s Dak Prescott will hit the open market, so Washington must turn its search to the next tier of quarterbacks.

Winston leads the NFL in passing yards — he has 239 more than Dallas’s Dak Prescott — and is second in touchdown passes behind Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson.