CeeDee Lamb reveals the solution to his surreal problem

Dallas Cowboys’ wide receiver CeeDee Lamb has had a rough patch of form in recent games. With eight dropped passes this season, the most he’s ever had in a single campaign, and the highest by a Cowboys receiver since 2012, criticism has hit new heights. Six of those drops have come in games against the Philadelphia Eagles.

After another game dripping wet with missed opportunities, including a potential touchdown drop, Lamb took the blame on the chin. Instead of shifting blame, he went on the record owning the problem. “”You just find ways to get better. You want to be solution-oriented and not really much to dwell on the problem. Granted, we know the problem, I need to catch the fucking ball,” he admonished to himself. “We know the problem… I got to handle that.”

The player traced the issue back to his own mindset: “I’ve been thinking two before one,” he admitted. He said he was getting ahead of himself, worrying about the next move before even securing the catch.

“It’s all on me, and I got to handle that”

“It’s really just lack of focus on my end, honestly,” Lamb revealed. “There’s been plenty of that going on, and by that, I’m thinking about my next move before catching the ball and things of that nature. It’s not really much on anybody else but myself, and I’ve never been one to point the finger, but yeah, it’s all on me, and I got to handle that. It’s not really anybody in my way,” Lamb said. “I’m the only one guarding myself, I feel like. We are going to fix that.”

Lamb’s teammate Dak Prescott supported him, saying that he expects a “huge” performance in the next game: “Just go back and look at the career, right. Any game that maybe he’s not done to his standard or had a drop there or been a frustrating game, the way he’s responded has been unquestionable,” Prescott said. “I know early in this year it was the same way from the first time we played [the Eagles] to his next game. I don’t expect this to be any different.”

The head coach reflected Prescott’s rhetoric: “He loves the bright lights,” Schottenheimer boasted. “He’s an incredible football player and he’s got that his look in his eye that means business. It’s the same look he had after the first Philadelphia game. I think I let the cat out of the bag a little, but there will be plenty of balls going to 88 on Thursday afternoon.”

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Statistically, despite the drops, Lamb remains among the team leaders: 44 catches for 632 yards and two touchdowns in eight games. The numbers are there for Lamb, and once is head is too, the Cowboys will have a huge asset to rely on.

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