Going into the Dallas Cowboys game against the Philadelphia Eagles, the last person you would have guessed as being most responsible for a Dallas loss would have been CeeDee Lamb. In fact, with Micah Parsons no longer on the team, you could call Lamb the Cowboys best player. On Thursday night, he showed a lot of why he is so good with a stat line of seven catches for 110 yards.
But it was the other stat that really mattered. Drops.
Lamb had multiple drops in the game, but it was the one late in the game that was most damaging. On a first down with a little over two minutes left in the game, Dallas had the ball and needed a touchdown to take the lead. Dak Prescott launched a long pass to Lamb which hit the star receiver chest-high, right in his hands. Lamb did the unthinkable and dropped