CeeDee Lamb throwing Cowboys' 2024 season 'in the trash' as new era begins in Dallas

A caller epoch is underway for the Dallas Cowboys.

After 5 seasons, Mike McCarthy volition nary longer beryllium connected the sidelines astatine AT&T Stadium. Instead, it volition beryllium Brian Schottenheimer, who got the promotion from offensive coordinator to caput coach.

Obviously, cipher is happier with that than Schottenheimer himself, but prima wide receiver CeeDee Lamb is simply a adjacent second.

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Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb, #88, makes a touchdown implicit the Cincinnati Bengals successful the archetypal 4th during "Monday Night Football" astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington,Texas, connected Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. (IMAGN)

"With him being successful the gathering since I was successful the league, I consciousness similar there’s not gonna beryllium a drop-off," Lamb said successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital. "He understands however we operate, precise acquainted with the country and the Jones family, helium understands the endowment helium has around, truthful conscionable incorporating that and beryllium amended each week. Looking guardant to it."

Lamb added that determination volition beryllium immoderate benignant of "adjustment," but immoderate accent volition mostly beryllium connected Schottenheimer himself and not needfully the players successful presumption of adaptation.

"Having a caller coach, they person to travel successful and proclaim their dominance and beryllium capable to power the room. I cognize that’s a batch of accent connected them," Lamb said. 

"They gotta get america to recognize wherefore we should travel you. I consciousness similar [owner] Jerry [Jones] did a large occupation of keeping it close."

Dallas Cowboys Head Coach Brian Schottenheimer, left, and proprietor Jerry Jones talk to the media astatine a property league astatine the Star. (Tim Heitman-Imagn Images)

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Schottenheimer's archetypal play successful his caller gig volition travel pursuing a 7-10 season, which saw backmost Dak Prescott leaving the play midway owed to a hamstring injury.

For Lamb, considering the Cowboys were not truly the Cowboys, "it’s kinda casual to propulsion [last season] successful the trash."

"A batch of atrocious came retired of it, but it showed the toughness of the team, the committedness and resiliency we had arsenic acold arsenic going retired determination and warring for 1 another," Lamb said. "We cognize what it feels similar to beryllium connected the other side, truthful it was unfortunate. Hopefully we don’t get injured, due to the fact that that was terrible. A batch of our cardinal guys got retired early. For us, I consciousness similar that’s wherever we gotta get better, taking retired bodies and durability."

Perhaps the No. 1 extremity of the offseason is to support Micah Parsons, who is good owed for a contract. The pros to keeping Parsons talk for themselves, but determination is simply a con: Prescott, Lamb and Parsons, earlier what is harmless to presume volition beryllium a ample rise for the latter, already marque up much than fractional of the team's wage cap.

However, Parsons is excessively important, Lamb said.

Micah Parsons, #11 of the Dallas Cowboys, looks connected against the Philadelphia Eagles astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected Nov. 5, 2023 successful Philadelphia. (Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images)

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"It’s decidedly a tricky moment, and those are things you deliberation about, ‘how tin we get arsenic galore guys successful present arsenic possible?’" Lamb admitted. "As for me, I’m trying to fig it out. I similar to win. I got my wealth now, that’s conscionable realistically talking. I genuinely attraction astir winning, it’s ever been that."

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