Cowboys’ Lamb on rash of dropped passes: ‘I got to handle that’ – Todd Archer, ESPN
CeeDee Lamb is pretty candid about how he’s addressing his issues with dropping the football.
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb did not need to do any deep dive on why he dropped three passes, including
a potential touchdown, in Sunday’s win against the Philadelphia Eagles.
“You just find ways to get better,” Lamb said. “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 f—ing ball. Other than that, man, we’ll be fine. When I do catch it, be ready.”
Lamb has dropped eight passes, a career high, and the most by a Cowboys player in a single season since Dez Bryant had nine in 2012, according to ESPN Research.
Six of the eight drops have come against the Eagles.
“It’s really just lack of focus on my end, honestly,” Lamb said. “Just thinking doing two before one. 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.”
Dak Prescott on matchup with Chiefs, CeeDee Lamb bouncing back, more – Tommy Yarrish, DallasCowboys.com
The Dallas Cowboys quarterback is gearing up for his eighth Thanksgiving Day game.
There’s no time for celebrating Sunday’s huge game, however, as they move right ahead to playing the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday in Dallas’ annual Thanksgiving game.
“It’s vital, you’ve got to reset,” Prescott said. “Yea, that was a great win, great, tough win, emotional coming back from down 21, but it was only to be celebrated that night to be honest with you… Especially on the short week, you’ve got to move forward, you’ve got to get on your film, you’ve got to find a way to crunch five days into two, two and a half, three days.”
It’s not easy to compress that much information for a quick-turnaround game against any opponent, but much less when it’s the Kansas City Chiefs, who played in Super Bowl LIX against the Eagles, who Dallas played on Sunday.
“We know how talented and good this team is coming in,” Prescott said. “We know how important it is to start fast, and that’s our focus. However, if that doesn’t happen, you’ve got to be resilient, you’ve got to show competitive stamina. At the end of the day, it’s a four-quarter game and that is what the goodness of last week does.”
All of Kansas City’s losses have come in one-possession games. While their 6-5 record may not be indicative of it, the Chiefs’ offense has continued to play well, and it’s led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who Prescott has a lot of respect for.
“Everything in his game,” Prescott said of what he respects about Mahomes. “The way he plays it, at the end of the day obviously talent jumps out, but you watch a guy who plays with pure passion, who’ll do anything it takes to win. On the sideline, he’s not necessarily always running out of bounds, trying to make the extra play, never giving up on a play, has the ability to throw it back across his body. He does it all right. What I respect most is just his will to win, you see it, he’ll do anything and everything it takes.”
How Cowboys’ DeMarvion Overshown & Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes met over a decade ago – Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
It really is just a small world after all.
Growing up in the small East Texas town of Arp, Dallas Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown has talked about how there weren’t many idols to look up to when he was a kid. On the town’s Wikipedia page, only three names show up under the “notable people” category: former University of Houston head basketball coach and Basketball Hall of Fame member Guy Lewis, oil tycoon Joe B. Foster and Overshown.
So, when idols come around, they make an impact. For Overshown, that happened to be Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
While he calls Arp home and has grown up there for most of his life, Overshown attended elementary school in nearby Whitehouse where Mahomes was coming up as a star quarterback for the Wildcats high school team.
“The varsity football players would come to the elementary and see the kids,” Overshown said. “Pat was actually in high school, and there were times when he would come to the elementary.”
Not only was he the star quarterback, he was also family of a friend. Jackson Mahomes — the younger brother of Patrick who has made a name for himself on social media — was in the same class as Overshown along with another family member.
“His brother, Jackson, and his cousin, Emma, we were all in the same class,” he said. “I grew up with them, I know the Mahomes real well, that family real well. When I was doing combine interviews, I said it’d be a dream to play against him or play with him. I get to play against him, so it’ll be fun. East Texas going at it.”
Cowboys legends: Jason Witten, Darren Woodson advance as HOF semifinalists – RJ Ochoa, Blogging the Boys
It’s time for Darren Woodson to get in the Hall of Fame.
Former Dallas Cowboys players Jason Witten and Darren Woodson are officially semifinalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026.
The semifinalists were announced at large on Tuesday morning and Dallas has two players part of the field as noted. This year marks the first time that Witten is eligible for the HOF and that he has advanced to the semifinalist portion is a strong suggestion that he will one day have a bust in Canton, Ohio. He has long been regarded as a future HOFer so this is hardly a surprise, but it certainly does indeed carry the air of inevitability even if it doesn’t happen this year.
Unfortunately the road has been far more rocky for Woodson as he has been denied from the HOF on an annual basis. He was even a finalist for the most recent class to make matters even more painful.
Perhaps Woody coming as close as possible last year is a sign of hope that this could be the year he finally gets in. Ideally both Cowboys on this list are a part of next summer’s festivities.
