Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott may have been the one to send the hip-thrusting warmup routine into viral territory, but he’s not the only quarterback to make use of the “Dak Dance.”
Tom Brady has been doing it for years.
Ahead of Sunday’s Cowboys-Patriots matchup, Fox Sports aired an interview between Brady and Erin Andrews with the Patriots quarterback getting asked specifically about Prescott’s viral warmup.
Brady said he was happy to see Prescott use that routine and added that the Cowboys quarterback did a “good job” with keeping his hips loose. And while plenty of football players have mockingly imitated the routine, Brady said that he does his own version of the Dak Dance to warm up.
It looked like this:
Brady’s still got it, y’all.
According to a story from The Athletic, sports biomechanics expert Tom House had Brady and Drew Brees performing the warmup for close to a decade. Via The Athletic:
Prescott picked up the warm-up drill, along with a bunch of other movements, from Tom House, the godfather of sports biomechanics. House had his first major football client, Drew Brees, doing this same drill almost two decades ago. Tom Brady and many other NFL quarterbacks have done it for close to a decade. House calls it Step and Torque.
“When you watch Dak doing it, the shoulder goes back while the hips go forward,” says House, a former major league pitcher. “He’s actually patterning the nervous system and training the muscles in movements that are specific to what he does when he throws with an elevated core temperature.”
Whatever Brees and Brady did during warmups, though, obviously didn’t garner attention quite like Dak. He was back at it with the dance again on Sunday.
