What adjustments can Cowboys make for CeeDee Lamb?
DallasCowboys.com staff writer Nick Eatman discusses the potential tweaks Dallas can make to get Lamb more targets in the second halves of games.
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00:00DallasCowboys.com has why the drop-off, the Cowboys explain Lamb's second-half stats.
00:08What's the reason for it?
00:10Well, you know, what they say is that the defensive coordinators are making their adjustments.
00:17They're adjusting.
00:18They're not letting it happen.
00:19They're stopping the bleeding, and that's opening up things for the other guys.
00:25In the Pittsburgh game, that's exactly what we saw, because he did have a nice start to
00:30things, and then after that, they kind of shut that down, and then Tolbert had a big
00:36game, of course, and nine different guys, I believe, caught a pass in that game, which
00:42is how you want to do it.
00:43You definitely want to spread the ball around, and everybody have confidence, and Dak having
00:47confidence in those guys, but there's no doubt about it.
00:51I mean, CD's got to be the guy from one to four.
00:53I mean, first quarter to fourth quarter, and a fifth quarter if needed.
00:57I mean, that's what they're paying for.
00:59That's the playmaker that he is.
01:01So I hear what they're saying, and yes, they're making adjustments, but I thought, I would
01:07have assumed teams were adjusting on Jerry Rice for his entire career, and they were
01:12still making plays, and Randy Moth, and Michael Irvin, and those guys, and CD last year.
01:17So I just think it's a combination of, yes, they're making some adjustments, but they've
01:23got to figure out how to counter those adjustments and still get him on the move, make him plays.
01:29I don't think they're using him in space enough.
01:32I don't think that they're stacking him on the line of scrimmage with other guys.
01:35They're putting him in motion enough.
01:37There's ways, I think, that they need to do to get him going even more than what we're
01:42seeing in the first half.