Dallas Cowboys CeeDee Lamb Analyzes 'Self-Inflicted Wounds; It's Always The Issue For Us!'
The Dallas Cowboys gave it everything at Lincoln Financial Field in their 28-23 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, in a game that will be remembered for its "what-if" moments.
The Cowboys put themselves into position to steal the game late after starting on their own 14-yard line. Dallas marched down the field and had a first-and-5 on the Eagles 6, but a false start and then back-to-back sacks made the task of scoring a touchdown nearly impossible.
Receiver CeeDee Lamb had a career-best game (11 receptions, 191 yards) but was left lamenting the 10 costly penalties for 83 yards that made getting that win so much harder.
“Honestly, we got to do better on penalties,” Lamb said. “I feel like that's always, you know, necessarily the issue for us. We can't have self-inflicted wounds we eliminate the penalties, we score more touchdowns.”
Penalties have been an issue for the Cowboys over the last couple of seasons, and again, in a big spot, that ugly wart was seen.
But one positive was the performance of Dak Prescott, who is in some type of form right now. Prescott did all he could to pull his team to a win, and despite it being a game of inches that the Cowboys, as Lamb said, "were on the wrong side of," Dak still got his team in a position to win the game at the end.
Prescott would finish the game going 29 of 44 for 375 yards and three touchdowns (no turnovers) as one could argue, it was one of the best performances of his career despite it being a loss.
Cowboys receiver CeeDee Lamb was left lamenting the costly penalties in their loss to the Eagles.
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Lamb wasn't surprised at what Dak was able to do.
“I ain't learned nothing,” Lamb said. “I already knew I already knew what he could do. It's all on him showing the world what he can do.”
Unfortunately, that all gets lost, as when it was there to be won, the self-inflicted wounds returned (and perhaps luck wasn't on their side) to haunt the Cowboys.
While the race for the division isn't over (although it's close) due to Dallas' and Philadelphia's respective upcoming schedules, the team must now run its own race and focus on itself rather than the Eagles, who have a nice lead in the division and the entire NFC.
But perhaps what is more important than worrying about what the Eagles do is that the Cowboys must find a way to stop costly penalties from ruining their chances at winning games. ... Because if this issue can't be fixed, then Dallas will only go so far when/if they make the playoffs.
