FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys are on a brief week heading into Thursday night time’s sport on the New York Giants, however there was so much to unpack over the previous few days with back-to-back defeats.
All-Professional broad receiver CeeDee Lamb didn’t speak to reporters after Sunday’s residence loss to the Baltimore Ravens, a sport by which he misplaced a fumble and dropped a move and had what a sideline spat with quarterback Dak Prescott.
On Tuesday, he was apologetic for his efficiency and the way he dealt with himself on the sideline, saying he performed “a giant half” in Sunday’s defeat. He additionally acknowledged his physique language and angle did not “assist the scenario or the end result of the sport.”
“Simply being an expert about this entire scenario. Understanding it is a lengthy sport,” mentioned Lamb, who had 4 catches for 67 yards in opposition to the Ravens. “However as for me and my efficiency, I count on so much out of myself, greater than anybody may placed on me. And, fairly actually, I failed myself. And clearly, I failed the workforce simply so far as producing and being that game-breaker participant for the workforce and, clearly, the man that they’ll lean on.
“And, yeah, I type of let the sport get to my head just a little bit. However in the identical sense, I do know what I can do. I do know what I deliver to the desk, and I do know what I can do on that discipline. So, with that being mentioned, going ahead, there shall be a distinction.”
Lamb didn’t put Sunday’s effort on lacking coaching camp with a contract holdout.
“Ain’t no excuse for that,” he mentioned. “I performed soccer my entire life. I do know higher.”
As for Prescott, he mentioned his relationship with Lamb is nearly as good as ever. Prescott, nonetheless, didn’t communicate to the media Tuesday, which could have been a primary in his time because the starter.
“Our relationship, if something, [has] gotten stronger,” Lamb mentioned. “Do not let what’s on the market idiot you. We’re brothers to the tip. We all know that all of us we obtained, and I tip my hat off to him. I obtained the utmost respect for him, and I have a look at him as a brother. So, with that being mentioned, all the pieces goes to come back out: the vitality, the fervour, the love, the battle. You going to make up in the long run.”
Towards the San Francisco 49ers final yr, Lamb principally stored to himself throughout a 42-10 loss. After that, he had seven 100-yard receiving video games and 6 video games with at the least 11 catches en path to setting workforce data within the last 11 video games.
“I plan on doing it once more,” Lamb mentioned.
Defensively, the Cowboys plan to not permit the Giants to run throughout them, just like the New Orleans Saints (190 yards) and Ravens (274 yards) did previously two contests.
Requested if the protection has obtained the message of enjoying essentially sound, All-Professional edge participant Micah Parsons mentioned, “I imply, everybody says it, however then once more, we have got to see what occurs.”
“I really feel like as a competitor, sooner or later you bought to be prideful sufficient to say, ‘Hey, like I am not going to permit this to occur to me,'” Parsons mentioned. “Like I simply really feel like some individuals are simply permitting them to maintain getting smacked within the face. When are you going to face up?”
At 1-2, the Cowboys already appear to be at a key juncture of their season.
“I would fairly get knocked within the head now, as a result of if you fail, what do you do?” Parsons mentioned. “You bought to get again up, and I believe that is going to create an amazing locker room atmosphere, nice workforce atmosphere, proper?
“[If] we fail, we fail. OK. We all know what that seems like. You’ll be able to solely rise up. We solely up from right here, proper? So, once I mentioned we’re low, what do you go from if you’re on the backside? You climb, however you bought to be keen to climb.”