FRISCO, Texas — More often than not, CeeDee Lamb is going to find a way to leave his imprint on an NFL game. It happened again in Week 2 when, despite the Dallas Cowboys' offense regularly struggling to find pay dirt, Lamb made a way when he took a frozen rope of a pass from Dak Prescott into double coverage, evaded both defenders and burst forward for a 65-yard touchdown.
It turned out to be the only touchdown of the afternoon for the Cowboys, but it served as a reminder of what the First-Team All-Pro receiver is capable of — particularly after adding "armor" to his frame during his summer holdout, i.e., more muscle mass.
"Absolutely man, and that's just only the beginning," said Lamb as the team looks to bounce back against the Baltimore Ravens in Week 3. "Everything that I've trained for in the offseason is going to come to life. I have no doubt about it."
As it stands, Lamb leads all NFL receivers with 2,038 scrimmage yards since 2023, and he is second in the league with 1,900 receiving yards since last season, and his 135 receptions were the most of all qualifying wideouts.
It's safe to say the offense will go as he and Prescott do.
As for falling to 1-1 on the young season?
"It's only been two games in the NFL," he said. "Everybody's got high energy, a lot of this, a lot of that, but we'll see as the season progresses."
So when it comes to the Cowboys having dropped their last two games at home, one being the playoff loss against the Green Bay Packers, and the fashion in which they've occurred, Lamb points at Dallas' proven ability to string together wins at home when they're firing on all cylinders.
"We've lost two games at home in how many years?" he fired back rhetorically. "We'll be perfectly fine. We'll be perfectly fine."
Lamb popped up on the injury report this week with an ankle issue that the Cowboys weren't much concerned about, a sentiment hammered home on Thursday morning by head coach Mike McCarthy, and the wideout himself made it clear he'll be a full go for Sunday.
He described the issue as soreness that led to some rest, and nothing more.
His focus is on the Cowboys working through another slow offensive start to the season, having also struggled to begin the 2023 campaign before Lamb went on to have a record-setting season and Prescott earned an All-Pro nod and runner-up in league MVP voting.
"Last year was last year for sure, but I will say, throughout the year, we do have a tendency of getting better," Lamb explained. "We set the bar for ourselves, obviously, to see how we compete versus other people and then we make adjustments. But I will say we can definitely look forward to making more adjustments this year."
The sooner the better though, considering the challenge that awaits them with the Ravens and the need of avoiding a 1-2 start to one of the more pivotal seasons in franchise history, but that doesn't mean they'll press — something that could lead to more mistakes.
Instead, Lamb and Co. are simply watching film and learning from what went wrong against the Saints to correct it in Week 3.
"The urgency has always been there," he said. "It's not so much antsy or 'everybody's scrambling' around here. No, that's not the thing. But, we get it. We had a pretty bad performance, and things that were in our control that we could have made better decisions here or there.
"We know the situation at hand. We've got to capitalize."
