​For all the bad that came out of Dallas’ opening loss to the New York Giants, star quarterback Dak Prescott did close in on one of the major Cowboys franchise records, and he and his former teammates are talking about it.Could George Pickens be part of that record? He’ll have to be better than he was in the opener, and he thinks that’s going to happen. So does safety PJ Locke, who figures to take on a larger role as Dallas deals with an injury.Here is Dallas’ day.Dak Prescott closes in on team recordWith two touchdown passes in the otherwise forgettable opening 28-20 loss to the New York Giants, Prescott now has 245 in his career, three behind his predecessor Tony Romo for the all-time Cowboys lead.For this occasion, ESPN caught up with Prescott and some of the players who caught those passes to have them talk about their memories.”I might remember every single one of them,” Prescott told ESPN.More: Cowboys Caleb Downs shines, but Dallas defense remains an issueHe sure remembers his first.”Slant to Dez in the fourth quarter against Chicago,” Prescott said of his Week 3, 2016, 17-yard pass to Dez Bryant.Tight end Jason Witten, now a coach with the Oklahoma Sooners, remembers a pass later that year in Week 8 as the Cowboys topped Philadelphia in overtime after a 10-point comeback in the fourth quarter. Dallas won it on the opening drive of overtime, back when such things were allowed, with a 5-yard second-down pass from Prescott to Witten.”I was running away from the guy and I just kind of stepped back and so it kind of went against the grain if you will and stepped back instead of keeping on scrambling and mirroring him,” Witten told ESPN. “He immediately saw it and immediately threw it. It was almost like he saw it at the same time I saw it — and didn’t even flinch … it was at a critical time but that’s my favorite one just because it was the Eagles and it was fairly early on in our time together.”More: Here are the Dallas Cowboys winners, losers in season-opening defeat’We can all get better’Cowboys receiver Pickens was uncharacteristically quiet in the opening loss to the Giants, when he caught three passes on six targets with two drops for 28 yards. That included a pivotal drop late in the first half that preceded a game-turning interception thrown by Prescott.In an interview with DallasCowboys.com, Pickens expects a quick bounce-back against the Washington Commanders on Sunday, Sept. 20.”It’s definitely urgent, because it’s a division game, such as the Giants was,” Pickens told DallasCowboys.com. “We definitely need to nail down our Ps and Qs. I think that’s the mindset that people are honing in on now.”He acknowledged the need for a better start and more focus this week.More: Dallas Cowboys add former Pro Bowl offensive lineman to practice squadThat was “the first game, but I know we got a lot more games to come,” he said of the loss to the Giants. “But, definitely as a unit, and I think Schotty (coach Brian Schottenheimer) said that, to