Dallas Cowboys provide update on CeeDee Lamb after scary concussion vs. Lions – Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
CeeDee Lamb had a good day after suffering a concussion in Detroit.
It was far from the dream road trip for the Dallas Cowboys to the Motor City on Thursday night, as head coach Brian Schottenheimer’s squad fell 44-30 to the Detroit Lions in a pivotal matchup toward dictating the playoff bubble in the NFC.
Aside from the result, a health concern for wide receiver CeeDee Lamb also came out of the game after he suffered a concussion in the third quarter. With 12:47 left in the frame, quarterback Dak Prescott gave Lamb a chance at a one-on-one ball in the end zone that he couldn’t come up with. As he was landing on the ground, his head slammed against the Ford Field turf. His left arm went numb as he laid on the turf without much movement for a few moments.
He was checkout by medical staff on the field and in the injury tent before being quickly ruled out and walked to the locker room. Coming out of the locker room after the loss, Lamb nodded when asked if he was OK.
“It scared me,” Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said on 105.3 The Fan on Friday morning. “It really did.”
Back in the team facility on Friday, Schottenheimer was able to see Lamb whose body responded well less than 24 hours after the injury.
“He had a good day,” Schottenheimer said on Friday afternoon on a conference call with local reporters. “But he has to go through all the checks and balances of all that stuff. I do think the extra couple of days should hopefully help him.”
After enduring tough stretch of schedule, playoff hopeful Cowboys face harsh reality – Calvin Watkins, Dallas Morning News
The Cowboys loss to the Lions puts their postseason dreams in serious jeopardy.
FRISCO — It’s over now, but the ramifications of the Cowboys playing four games in 18 days have determined where their season sits.
A playoff appearance, as difficult as it would have been to accomplish, is almost extinguished following a 44-30 loss to the Lions on Thursday night.
The Athletic playoff predictor gives the Cowboys a 9% chance of making the postseason and a 4% chance of winning the NFC East.
NFL’s Next Gen Stats playoff probabilities also have the Cowboys reaching the postseason at 9%. If Dallas had upended Detroit on Thursday, their chances would have moved to 39% with four games to play.
With three days off following their Thursday night loss, the Cowboys are faced with the reality that reaching the postseason might be through a complete collapse by the Eagles to win the NFC East.
In the Eagles’ next five games, the Los Angeles Chargers (8-4) and Buffalo Bills (8-4) have winning records. The defending Super Bowl champs face the 3-9 Washington Commanders twice in the last month of the season and despite the troubles on offense, it’s assumed the Eagles are in good shape.
The Cowboys?
Well, a win over the Lions would have been the Cowboys’ fourth consecutive heading into a weekend with momentum and bringing it closer to the Eagles (8-4).
At 6-6-1, the Cowboys already have losses to Detroit, Chicago and Carolina, so making the postseason as a wild card will be difficult. They’d also lose an unlikely tiebreaker against those teams.
This play shifted the momentum greatly on Thursday night.
Despite a mistake-filled performance in all three phases of the game, the Cowboys nevertheless kept it close enough to give themselves a chance at the end of Week 14’s meeting with the Lions.
It was also close enough for one penalty flag to dramatically- and quite maddeningly, if you ask Dak Prescott- alter everything.
“That’s a game-changing call that I don’t understand,” the Cowboys quarterback would say later, knowing full well the comments could get him in trouble with the league.
Dallas was on the move late in the fourth quarter and looked to be headed toward the end zone. Down by 10 points, Prescott had led the offense from their own 33 and were sitting on the Lions’ 11 in a third-and-3 situation.
On the ensuing pass play to tight end Jake Ferguson, he and Lions linebacker Alex Anzalone got tangled up, and the ball sailed just past Ferguson’s outstretched arms. A flag was thrown, but the expected call against the defense never came.
Instead, after a quick meeting, the officials announced offensive pass interference against Ferguson.
Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer was enraged. The broadcast booth was dumbfounded. But instead of the Cowboys’ ball on the doorstep, with a fresh set of downs they could use to cut the lead to three points with just under four minutes to play, Dallas had to settle for a field goal… and hope to get the ball back for another crack at the end zone with enough time for it to matter.
That didn’t happen.
10 thoughts on the Cowboys 44-30 Thursday night loss to the Lions – Dan Rodgers, Blogging The Boys
Several things prevented the Cowboys from beating the Lions.
The winning streak is over. It seemed like a tough ask for the Dallas Cowboys to win three straight games against the three teams with the best records last season, and sure enough, it was. The Cowboys fell to the Detroit Lions on Thursday night, 44-30, putting their playoff hopes on life support. It was a frustrating game to watch with a little goodness sprinkled in. Here are my 10 thoughts on this unfortunate loss in the Motor City.
1. Falling behind again
It wouldn’t be a Cowboys game if the team didn’t dig itself a hole early. They went down 21-0 against the Eagles two weeks ago, fell down 7-0 to the Chiefs on Thanksgiving, and then trailed 27-9 early in the second half. While the team does a good job fighting back into games, this repeated habit of falling behind is not a recipe for success. If you play with fire long enough, eventually you’ll get burned, and that’s what happened to them against the Lions.
2. They’re only hurting themselves
Another element that reared its ugly head was turning the ball. The Cowboys had a couple of costly mistakes against the Eagles and turned the ball over on their opening drive against the Chiefs. They were fortunate enough to overcome those miscues, but their luck ran out in Detroit. The Cowboys’ offense turned the ball over three times, once on a Jake Ferguson fumble, and twice on a deflected pass that was intercepted. On the other side of the ball, the defense didn’t force a single turnover. It’s tough to win football games when you lose the turnover battle, 3 to 0.
3. Defense didn’t have it
It was great while it lasted, but the Cowboys’ defense didn’t bring the ‘A’ game to this one. At times, they made some plays, but far too often, they gave up big yardage plays to the Lions’ playmakers. Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jameson Williams, and Jahmyr Gibbs all had receiving plays over 25 yards. David Montgomery had a 35-yard rushing touchdown. Jared Goff had over 300 yards passing. At the end of the day, the Lions’ offense beat them in a multitude of ways as the Cowboys gave up over 400 yards and surrendered 44 points.
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