SANTA CLARA -- Dak Prescott has had better games in his career than Sunday's 40-10 victory against the San Francisco 49ers. He has even had better games this season than he did Sunday.

But he did something Sunday that Troy Aikman and Roger Staubach never did in their Hall of Fame careers with the Dallas Cowboys. With touchdown passes to Jason Witten, Ezekiel Elliott and Dez Bryant, Prescott recorded his third straight three-touchdown game of the season.

"We didn't win three games in a row, so it really doesn't mean that much," Prescott said. "For me, it's about the wins at the end of the day. Touchdowns are great, and they obviously help us win, but three wins to me sounds better than three touchdown games."

Twice Don Meredith had three consecutive games with three touchdown passes. Tony Romo did it three times, with the last coming at the end of the 2014 season.

Prescott finished with 234 yards on 16-of-25 passing. He also ran four times for 26 yards and had his third rushing touchdown of the season. It was only the third time in team history a Cowboys quarterback had three touchdown passes and one touchdown run in the same game. Romo did it twice in 2007.

Ultimately, Sunday's victory was about the success of the running game. But it also accentuated how the run can help Prescott.

"One of the things we wanted to do was control the line of scrimmage and run the football, and when you do that you get so many things off of that," coach Jason Garrett said. "You get favorable coverages to throw at. Your naked game, your play-action game comes alive. I think he's just done a really good job making plays down in the red zone to cash in on some of these long drives that we've had. He's playing, obviously, at a very high level."

Prescott's touchdown pass to Witten was the 66th of the tight end's career, passing Hall of Famer Michael Irvin for third place in team history. Bryant's touchdown catch was the 71st of his career, tying Hall of Famer Bob Hayes for the most in team history. Elliott's 72-yard touchdown catch, on a screen, was the second-longest of Prescott's young career.

Elliott has the longest at 83 yards on a screen pass last season against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

"It's actually funny," Elliott said. "That is the same screen play we scored on last year in Pittsburgh. I had a good feeling it was going to pop again. I tell Dak that every time, that I have the longest receptions of his career, so if he wants to throw a long touchdown, just throw me the ball."