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How will CeeDee Lamb do today in fantasy football? Projections for Cowboys WR

A look at CeeDee Lamb’s historical production under these circumstances, how outlets feel he’ll do and a projection for Week 6. | From @KDDrummondNFL

The Dallas Cowboys are going to have trouble fielding a competitive defense in Week 6 when they take on the Detroit Lions. The Cowboys are going to be missing several key members of that unit, starting with superstar edge rusher Micah Parsons and All-Pro cornerback DaRon Bland. Also missing will be starting middle linebacker Eric Kendricks, Pro Bowl edge rusher DeMarcus Lawrence and his two backups, Sam Williams and rookie Marshawn Kneeland.

So while corralling Jared Goff and the Ben Johnson offense will be left to Trevon Diggs and a bunch of guys, the Dallas offense will need to find a way to keep pace. That starts with the connection between quarterback Dak Prescott and wideout CeeDee Lamb. The two must establish a dominant nature and then continue to exploit an average Detroit secondary throughout the contest.

So what does that mean for fantasy lineups?

Pro Football Focus says that this is an average matchup for Lamb, rating it a 55.2 out of 100, but also naming him the No. 1 wideout play for the week.

Yahoo! Sports ranks him the No. 1 wideout in full-point PPR leagues as well and their FantasyPros projects 6.5 catches, 85.3 yards and 0.5 touchdowns.

CBS Sports rates Lamb as a 9.8 out of 10 on their Must Start RTG factor.

What does history say about his performance from various perspectives?

Last season Lamb caught 12 of 13 targets for 227 receiving yards and a score. The year prior he had four receptions for 70 yards. So his small-sample size average against Detroit projects the following stat line:

8 receptions, 148 yards, 0.5 touchdowns

In two home games this season, Lamb has the following averages:

4 receptions, 78 yards, 0.5 touchdowns

In four previous Week 6 games over his career, Lamb has the following averages:

7 receptions, 99.5 yards, 0.5 touchdowns

Our projection based on these numbers is as follows:

6 receptions, 109 yards, 0.5 touchdowns, or 19.9 points in full-point PPR leagues.

Here’s why Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb drew 2 different fines from NFL front office this week

From @ToddBrock24f7: Lamb will be docked for taunting as well as making a violent gesture. That’s 3 fines in the past two games for the All-Pro wideout.

Through the first four weeks of the NFL season, exactly 111 plays have resulted in a monetary fine for a player in violation of some infraction. Almost three percent of them have involved CeeDee Lamb.

The Cowboys wide receiver was fined for two separate plays in the team’s Week 4 win over the New York Giants, it was announced Saturday. Combined, the fines will dock Lamb $25,324, just a week after an unnecessary roughness call (that was not considered a penalty during the Week 3 loss to Baltimore) cost him $22,511.

The first incident from last Thursday’s 20-15 win to draw the league’s ire came after a first-quarter catch by Lamb that gained ten yards. After being tackled at the Giants’ 30, Lamb motioned for a first down with a double-handed gesture that mimicked shooting guns. The league office called it unsportsmanlike conduct involving a violent gesture and imposed a fine of $14,069.

In the second quarter, Lamb caught a Dak Prescott pass of about 17 yards and then raced another 38 for a touchdown. On his way to the end zone, Lamb turned to stare down New York cornerback Deonte Banks and then flipped the ball toward him once he had scored. That was also deemed unsportsmanlike conduct- taunting, this time- and will cost Lamb $11,255.

As in Week 3, neither moment drew a flag from officials in the moment.

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The NFL seems to be making a concerted effort to crack down on the recent trend of players pantomiming shooting guns; five players across the league were fined for it in Week 4 and hit with fines totaling nearly $60,000.

Any violations resulting in a fine may be appealed by players, but the decisions are then binding. Collected fines are donated to the Professional Athletes Foundation to support NFL legends in need as well as the NFL Foundation to support the health, safety, and wellness of players across all levels of the sport.

Lamb has single-handedly contributed over $47,000 so far this season.

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Giants assistant questions Deonte Banks’ effort vs. Cowboys: ‘He failed’

New York Giants defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson calls out a lack of effort by CB Deonte Banks in Week 4: “He failed.”

New York Giants cornerback Deonte Banks had a less-than-stellar performance against the Dallas Cowboys last Thursday night.

Banks surrendered three receptions on three targets for 76 yards and one touchdown — a 55-yard catch-and-run courtesy of wide receiver CeeDee Lamb, who put Banks’ effort to shame.

“It was a bad finish by me,” Banks told reporters on Friday. “After I saw the film, I didn’t really feel it in the game. But I could have definitely finished more. I maybe could have even tackled him. But we’re passed it now.”

The lack of hustle drew the ire of long-time assistant coach Jerome Henderson, who interviewed to become Brian Daboll’s defensive coordinator during the offseason before the hiring of Shane Bowen.

The usually subdued Henderson was so frustrated by what he saw that he got loud with Banks.

“I’ve always been coachable. He don’t really do too much yelling, but I’ve been yelled at by a coach at a young age. So, I kind of learned that as a kid,” the second-year corner said.

Henderson didn’t coddle Banks publicly, either. He wasn’t shy about sharing his thoughts with reporters before the team’s final practice of Week 5.

“Didn’t like it,” Henderson said, via the New York Post. “Liked nothing about it.

“When your man catches a ball, you have to break your legs — not literally, but figuratively — to get him on the ground. I thought there was room to do more. We expect it from him and he expects it from himself, but in that moment he failed.”

Rookie safety Tyler Nubin also took a bad angle to the ball carrier and the play ended up going for 33 yards over expected, per NextGen Stats. It was seven points that shouldn’t have been on the board.

The Giants lost, 20-15.

“I expect more from myself. So, it is what it is. It’s coaching,” Banks said.

Things get no easier for Banks this Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks when he’s slated to go up against the much more physical DK Metcalf. Any lack of effort will be exposed, so expect Banks to come in motivated to right his wrong.

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Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb fined over $20,000 for this heady play

From @ToddBrock24f7: Lamb’s rough Week 3 game got even costlier; the NFL handed down a fine for a seemingly innocuous play that didn’t even warrant a penalty.

CeeDee Lamb had a rough outing back on Sept. 22 in the Cowboys’ loss to the Ravens. His costly fumble in the red zone contributed significantly to an overall collapse that eventually had the team down by 22 points before they were able to stop the bleeding. Lamb all but checked out entirely after the miscue and was even seen having heated exchanges on the sideline with teammates and coaches.

Thursday night’s win over the Giants, in which Lamb posted seven catches for 98 yards and a score, certainly helped put the previous weekend behind him (he also apologized for his behavior), but it turns out he’s not done paying for his Week 3 performance.

Per NFL Network insider Tom Pelissero, the NFL has fined Lamb $22,511 for unnecessary roughness on a play that didn’t draw much attention when it happened.

On the final play of the first quarter, Lamb hauled in a short pass from quarterback Dak Prescott at about the Baltimore 20. He spun away from cornerback Nate Wiggins and broke for the end zone. At the 10, as linebacker Trenton Simpson wrapped him up from behind, Lamb met safety Kyle Hamilton head-on.

Literally.

The league has determined that Lamb used his helmet illegally on the play, even though the moment didn’t draw a penalty flag from the officials on the field. The hit doesn’t seem particularly noteworthy, even when viewed in replay.

Yet the official rulebook specifies: “It is a foul if a player: lowers his head and makes forcible contact with his helmet against an opponent; or uses any part of his helmet or facemask to butt or make forcible contact to an opponent’s head or neck.”

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Cowboys safety Markquese Bell was also fined- $5,500- for unnecessarily rough use of his own helmet in the same game.

League officials were on a bit of a rampage after Week 3, with 34 plays from across the league drawing fines totaling over $394,000. Several players were docked even more than Lamb; Packers running back Josh Jacobs was hit with a $45,020 fine and Chargers defensive back Derwin James was dealt a one-game suspension, both for roughness (helmet) incidents.

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Cowboys slay Giants behind strong defensive effort

The Cowboys squared their record with a win over the Giants

The Dallas Cowboys used an efficient offense and dominant defense in a 20-15 victory over the New York Giants on Thursday night at MetLife Stadium.

The Dallas defense came into the game worst in the league, allowing better than five yards a rush. It smothered the Giants’ running game to the tune of 26 yards on 24 carries.

What offense the Giants did have came from 281 passing yards by Daniel Jones. However, the quarterback was unable to get his team into the end zone.

Greg Joseph used his kicking leg 11 times and not once was it for a PAT. He kicked off six times and kicked five field goals in providing all the points for the Giants.

The biggest play for Dallas was a 55-yard touchdown pass from Dak Prescott to CeeDee Lamb in the first half.

Giants star rookie Malik Nabers left the game late in the fourth quarter with a concussion. He had 12 receptions for 115 yards .. but 39 of them came on one play so his output on the other 11 catches was 76 yards.

Wan’Dale Robinson had 11 catches for 71 yards as the Giants relied on a short passing game that came up short of the end zone.

They had one last chance at victory when Brandon Aubrey missed a 51-yard field goal in the final minute. It was the first time in his NFL career that Aubrey missed from outside the 50.

The Giants’ gasp concluded when Jones was picked off on a deep pass by Amani Oruwariye with five seconds left.

Dallas is 2-2; New York is 1-3.

Seperation Anxiety: Space gaining maybe not as problematic as it seems for Cowboys receivers

The Cowboys can do things to improve their separation and make things easier on their offense. | From @ReidDHanson

A receiver’s ability to separate is a rather important skillset to have in football. Separation opens passing windows, making completions easier and increasing yards after the catch. For very obvious reasons, separation is a quarterback’s best friend at any level in football and the NFL is no exception.

Amidst the Cowboys’ recent two-game losing streak, separation numbers have been a topic of conversation. Passing game numbers are abnormally low this season and to many it’s because Dak Prescott isn’t seeing open WRs running downfield.

Fans don’t need the All-22 game film to see some of the evidence of these claims. Brandon Cooks, one of the fastest WRs on the team, has had trouble gaining separation at multiple levels of the field all season. It partially explains his low target rate (five targets per game) and his modest completion percentage when targeted (53 percent). He isn’t getting open and when he is, windows are dangerously tight.

Advanced stats back up the claims. According to Next Gen Stats CeeDee Lamb is second to last in the NFL in average yards of separation at 1.9 yards, Brandin Cooks’ 2.6 yards ranks him 88th and Jalen Tolbert’s 2.7 ranks him 84th.

But for as valuable as advanced stats can be for drawing worthwhile conclusions, the situation isn’t as bad as some stats will have you believe. Separation data such as this gauge separation at the point of catch and ignores all the other routes run by the WR. As one can imagine, ignoring 95 percent of the data can lead to some irresponsible conclusions. In this case it can lead someone to believe the situation is more dire than it really is.

With a statistic such as this, a more subjective analysis is likely in order to more accurately grade the situation. Grading each route at its break point would probably be the proper way to grade route running and separation ability. Fantasy outlets and organizations such as Pro Football Focus who grade on and off ball player performance are a better resource to grade separation, and they have generally come to a much different verdict.

It’s true the Cowboys WR group could be much better with their separation than they currently are, but majority of their players are still operating in average territory.

CeeDee Lamb isn’t lighting the world on fire with his silky route running but he’s grading better than the likes of Amon-Ra St. Brown, Tyreek Hill, Deebo Samuel and Justin Jefferson, who are all regarded as elite separators in the NFL.

The All-22 doesn’t absolve blame but rather points it in the right direction. For instance, many of the routes themselves lack decent jukes or even wiggle. Cooks specifically can be seen running vanilla routes without any fake stabs or misleading turns attached. Tolbert has looked uninterested in creating any deception with his routes as well. He’s graded as one of the worst WRs in separation score. All this considered, it’s no wonder coverage is tight for the Cowboys at the target and/or catch point.

Secondly, the play design and timing doesn’t seem to be doing the WRs any favors. Alternating WR break points through Prescott’s progressions should be in the play design. Instead, multiple players are breaking open simultaneously, so if Prescott isn’t watching that specific player at the time of the break, he’s missed his window of opportunity.

Finally, McCarthy can do things the old-fashioned way and create separation through bunch formations and rub routes. McCarthy frequently did this in Green Bay making things exceedingly difficult for opponents to defend. Motion at the snap can help a WR get off the line and dictate the leverage of the coverage. It’s just another way a coach can scheme players open for his QB.

Pass protection is an issue for the Cowboys, which is likely why players aren’t spending much time shaking and baking defensive backs every snap, but there has to be a happy medium where pass protectors hang on a micro-second longer and route-runners give their routes just a touch more deception. The rest is really on Prescott with his progressions and the coaching staff for building workable plays.

The issue isn’t separation catastrophic, but it’s real and something that should be addressed. Luckily, it’s also fixable.

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Prescott, Lamb with opportunity to get Cowboys back on track vs depleted Giants CB corps

From @ToddBrock24f7: Lamb and the Cowboys need to pull out of a serious funk. A Giants CB corps possibly without 2 of its stars on Thursday may be the ticket.

After getting taken to the woodshed in back-to-back weeks, the Cowboys are looking for something- anything- to feel encouraged about heading into a suddenly-very-important Week 4 game.

They may have found it in the Giants secondary.

Third-round rookie Dru Phillips and veteran Adoree’ Jackson, two of New York’s top cornerbacks, sat out the team’s Tuesday walkthrough- the second straight DNP for both- with calf injuries per the Giants website, and head coach Brian Daboll didn’t sound overly optimistic that either would be ready to suit up Thursday night.

“We’ll see. Go all the way to the end like we normally do,” Daboll told New York media on Tuesday. “We’ve got a couple more days; we’ll see where everybody’s at tomorrow night, Thursday morning.”

Jackson played just 17 defensive snaps in Week 3, while Phillips logged seven.

Daboll said he doesn’t believe either player will have to go on injured reserve, but that will be of little solace as Dak Prescott comes to town.

The Cowboys quarterback enters the game as the NFL’s passing yards leader through three games. Granted, a significant chunk of his 851 yards have come as the offense played from way behind against both the Saints and the Ravens, but Prescott won’t complain about facing a depleted secondary as Dallas looks to get back on track in their first divisional tilt of the season.

The Giants’ CB shuffle could put extra pressure on Deonte Banks, their 2023 first-round pick out of Maryland. This past Sunday, the 23-year-old was tasked with covering a five-time Pro Bowler.

It did not go well.

Banks got “torched by Amari Cooper and looked lost on the field” versus the Browns, according to Giants Wire. Cooper caught seven balls and scored twice in a game the Giants ended up winning.

It’s the kind of game film, though, that could have Cowboys star receiver CeeDee Lamb salivating in anticipation after a very frustrating day last week.

Lamb sits one spot outside the league’s top 10 in receiving yards but was mostly stymied last Sunday after a costly red-zone fumble early in the game. Him returning to form (and quickly) will be absolutely critical if the Cowboys are to have any long-term success this season.

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Daboll admitted that finding a scheme to shut down Lamb has already been a focus for his staff during this short week.

“Tough opponent, really good player, CeeDee,” the coach said. “They’ve got a lot of really good players. So we’re burning it pretty good here.”

Giants cornerback Nick McCloud may also provide some relief for after missing Weeks 2 and 3 with a knee injury. He was listed as limited both Monday and Tuesday, but Daboll expressed “hope” that McCloud would be able to go Thursday.

Cor’Dale Flott, Tre Hawkins, and Art Green could also figure into the mix for the New York defensive backfield. They have one career interception among them.

Given the early struggles from the Cowboys’ run game, Mike McCarthy may be asking his running backs to help the offensive line with pass protection, letting Prescott and Lamb go to work on turning things around against a Giants CB corps already on the short end of the injury stick.

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Jason Pinnock compares Giants-Cowboys to sibling rivalry

The Cowboys have gotten the better of the New York Giants for a while but Jason Pinnock says, like a sibling rivalry, that will change.

The New York Giants came into 2024 knowing they were going to start two rookies, a second-year player, and another changing position in their young secondary.

The only constant is safety Jason Pinnock, 25, a player the Giants plucked off waivers from the Jets two summers ago.

Pinnock, a 2021 fifth-round pick out of Pitt by the Jets, has steadily become the Giants’ rock in the secondary. So much so that they are relying on him to take a leadership role. Thus far this season, he has lived up to his responsibilities.

This Thursday, the Giants will face the Dallas Cowboys, a team they have lost six straight games to, and they could be without Andru Phillips and two other corners — Adoree’ Jackson and Nick McCloud, who were all on Monday’s injury report.

Asked if he was concerned about the number of key injuries heading into Thursday night’s game, Pinnock said that he wasn’t.

“No,” he told reporters on Monday. “Honestly, we stressed that, being young, in the offseason understanding, going into the year, that we would be young and that everybody has to be ready. That’s just what it is. It’s a violent, fast, physical game. We’re always ready. Next man up mentality. Not too worried.”

We’ll see. The Giants’ secondary will be charged with trying to shut down Dallas wide receivers CeeDee Lamb and Brandon Cooks.

“It’d be a challenge, regardless,” Pinnock said of trying to take on that dynamic duo while being shorthanded. “But our personnel, we believe in all of our depth, really. I don’t have too much on that.”

One thing we could see from Pinnock is his ability to get to the passer. He has three sacks in the first three games, tied for the team lead with Dexter Lawrence.

Pinnock said that while his teammates might be a little shocked at his sack total, he’s not surprised at all.

The Cowboys have the Giants’ number and they know it. But Pinnock cautions that a day of reckoning could be on the way.

“It’s a new day,” he said. “That’s the only thing I can really say. With that, my analogy goes towards my big brother. We joke about this all the time. It’s sort of like, he probably beat on me for 12 years, but that 13th, I’m going to bust your (expletive). It is what it is.”

The Giants are underdogs again this week, by 5.5 points. It is the 19th consecutive game in which the Giants are not favored, a franchise record.

The tide has to turn at some point. Dallas has not looked like themselves this season and could be ripe for an upset.

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Giants vs. Cowboys: 3 causes for concern in Week 4

The New York Giants square off in a Thursday night battle against the Dallas Cowboys in Week 4. Here are three reasons for concern.

The New York Giants will host the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday Night Football to kick off Week 4 of the NFL season.

The Giants are fresh off their first win of the year this past Sunday in Cleveland. Meanwhile, Dallas just dropped their second game in a row, so both teams will enter Thursday’s divisional matchup with an identical 1-2 record.

Despite the game being at MetLife Stadium, the Giants have opened up as home underdogs against their rivals. This will be the first of the two matchups between the two teams this season, the second one coming on Thanksgiving Day.

The game certainly picked up a little more steam with the Giants winning on Sunday and coming in at 1-2 instead of 0-3.

With the division rivals facing off on Thursday, here are three causes for concern.

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Trevon Diggs

Trevon Diggs is a ballhawk who has a knack for forcing turnovers against the Giants. In Diggs’ last five games against the Giants, he has three interceptions and a forced fumble.

With the Giants going to Malik Nabers early and often, the Cowboys are likely going to try and get a takeaway off of Nabers. New York will have to be careful and Head Coach Brian Daboll may have to get creative in getting Nabers the ball without risking a turnover.

Daniel Jones had a good day on the stat book in Week 3 against the Browns. However, he had an interception on the team’s first offensive play of the game that was called back due to a penalty, and two other balls that easily could have been picked off — one being Nabers’ most impressive catch of the day, stealing the ball from the defender’s hands.

The Giants must protect the ball on Thursday at all costs.

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Giants secondary

The Giants came into the season with a belief in Deonte Banks as a strong No. 1 cornerback after an impressive rookie season.

Banks was torched by Amari Cooper and looked lost on the field on Sunday. And the Cowboys rank first in the league in passing yards per game.

The road will not get any easier on Thursday as CeeDee Lamb will visit MetLife Stadium. Lamb plays well against the Giants and Banks will have to step up to slow him down.

Lamb has seen at least nine targets in four of his last five games against the Giants and with the Cowboys’ running game not what it used to be, he will likely see a heavy workload on Thursday.

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Special Teams

The Giants have had issues on special teams the last few weeks. In Week 2, they lost their kicker, Graham Gano, on the first play of the game.

With Gano on IR, the Giants signed Greg Joseph to fill in. Joseph naturally continued the Giants special teams woes on Sunday by missing a kick with three minutes left in the fourth quarter, which would have made it a two-possession game.

Head coach Brian Daboll was noncommittal on Joseph being the kicker in Week 4 on Monday despite the game just a few days away.

The Giants have also had their fair share of issues at both kick returner and punt returner over the last two weeks, including a fumble on the opening kickoff this past Sunday which quickly put Big Blue behind in the game Sunday.

The Giants will need to clean up the special teams miscues going into Thursday.

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‘Don’t dwell’: Prescott hopes to quickly lift Cowboys teammates, Lamb out of Week 3 funk

From @ToddBrock24f7: Lamb ditched the media after Sunday’s loss. Prescott used his moment to spread hope that their 4th-quarter rally can spark something bigger.

Dak Prescott didn’t play his best game in Week 3. But he hopes his refusal to lie down, even trailing by 22 points with 10 minutes to play, can serve as something for the Cowboys offense to build on moving forward.

He told his teammates as much in the middle of their furious comeback bid that saw them score 19 unanswered points and have a legitimate chance at stealing an unlikely win over a Ravens team that had dominated them for the previous three quarters-plus.

“I said, ‘Hey, we’ve got to get something going [in terms of] momentum,” the Cowboys quarterback told reporters after Sunday’s 28-25 loss. “I don’t care how this game ends. It’s about getting something going.”

Now it’s about keeping it going, using that late-game rally as a springboard to a more complete effort and- hopefully- a divisional win on Thursday night.

“The way that we finished on offense is vital for us to be able to build on, Prescott said, with the team headed to New York on a short prep week to face the Giants, fresh off their first win of the season.

“It’s a long-ass season,” Prescott said after closing out the game with three straight touchdown drives (two through the air, one with his legs). The Dallas offense netted 211 yards on those final three possessions, nearly equaling the 217 from their first eight drives. “It’s important to continue to roll that over into this short week.”

How Prescott’s teammates respond to Sunday’s letdown remain to be seen, but last year’s MVP runner-up remarked on a few things he hopes to see.

“Us as players, we’ve got to be more professional and understand our jobs, understand where we’re supposed to be, and do that time and time again, and keep our focus,” he explained.

Asked what he meant by being more professional, he elaborated.

“Knowing where you’re supposed to be, knowing your reads, knowing where you’re supposed to line up, knowing your routes, knowing your route adjustments versus certain coverages,” Prescott continued. “It’s doing your job and being prepared for every part of the job, however it may come. Time away from the building to being in the building, understanding that you can only get so many practice reps but you can watch the film, you can do all these other things that will help make up for it.”

Many have taken those comments to be directed largely at CeeDee Lamb.

The superstar receiver was credited with four receptions for 67 yards, but his afternoon was primarily marked by visible frustration after a red-zone fumble early in the second quarter. Cameras spotted Lamb having a heated exchange with teammates and coaches on the Cowboys sideline, and he was never much of a factor after his turnover.

Prescott downplayed the significance of Lamb’s physical cues while the game was in progress. But it was certainly reminiscent of last year’s meeting with the 49ers, when Lamb sulked away from the rest of his teammates during a humbling loss in which he was not at all in sync with his quarterback.

“Reading body language, I’m not really into it,” offered Prescott. “I’m just into making sure that he doesn’t get down on himself. The body language, whether it’s good [or] it’s bad, it’s irrelevant. It’s where his mind is.”

Lamb, notably, did not make himself available to the press following Sunday’s game.

He has 218 receiving yards through three games, good for 11th place leaguewide, but his completion percentage is just 54.1%- lower than any of the ten pass-catchers in front of him, and far below last year’s mark of 74.6%.

Prescott couldn’t say exactly why there’s been something of a disconnect between the two (“Not really sure. If I had an answer, we’d be in a rhythm.”), but he wasn’t shy about laying at least some of the blame on Lamb’s summer-long holdout over a new contract extension.

“Obviously, when you miss some time, you’re going to have that. You wish you didn’t, but you are.”

So for now, all Prescott can do is keep at it. He spoke repeatedly during his postgame press conference of sticking to the process.

But admittedly, the process will have to speed up exponentially this week. Prescott explained that by the time he hit the facility on Monday morning, it would actually be like a Thursday in the team’s normal game-prep schedule.

And he hopes he can convince his teammates to similarly leave Sunday’s latest embarrassment in the rearview and use their fourth-quarter success to plot a new way forward from here on.

“‘Don’t dwell. You don’t have time to dwell,'” Prescott added. “You look at the way that game ended, and I feel like if we don’t dwell in different places on offense, it’s a different game… Things happen fast in this league, and you always have an opportunity. You always have a chance.”

The Cowboys still have 14 chances, in fact, in the 2024 regular season. Plenty of time to, in Prescott’s words, get something going.

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