CeeDee Lamb didn't 'miss a beat' in Cowboys' Week 1 win over Browns | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC

Dallas came in there like hey we've had all this stuff but CD lamb and Dak Prescott with all the drama and all that I I can't get over how good CD lamb looked yesterday it was like he didn't miss a beat it didn't miss anything you couped that with the way the defense looked uh I mean an impressive win on the road for Dallas really never really at any point thought Cleveland had a chance once the first quarter was about over I still question how good Dallas is going to be because they prevented themselves from addressing flaws in free agency given the fact that they were so bogged down right in the CD lamb Dak Prescott right michah Parson contract situation now they're very fortunate that Michael parsons's didn't hold out he should have $3 million is Criminal borderline for the best defensive player in football in the fourth year of his contract with the risk you're taking it's not just oh well I can get an insurance policy if I have a career- ending injury it's an injury that keeps you from being Mel Parson that the insur company is never going to pay on that's what he's risking but they still even though they finally got everything stabilized the morning of week one they still weren't able to go out and improve the team so that's where I'm concerned I hear you yeah hey great win great start to the season you still got 16 games you go 12 and five again then it's time for the playoffs and what's going to happen when you run into the lions when you run into the 49ers potatoes on their football team because they have the one thing they have is they have difference makers right sometimes I talk about the Buffalo Bills and I go they got a lot of good meat and potatoes right but they don't have the sizzle players the Dallas is the opposite they got some Playmakers right they they got DeMarcus Lawrence and Michael Parsons oh Trayvon Diggs is back in the secondary oh he's special right donon Bland when he gets back healthy with the foot injury wow another playmaker oh CD lamb we saw Brandon Cooks pop up Dak Prescott wow yeah running back I don't know if we're going to see a lot of star plays there but it was nonetheless looked good for Ezekiel Elliot yesterday but here's CD lamb early in the game over the middle tough and the one thing I do like about Dallas is they go down fighting with their Stars more times than not they're going we're paying you we're going to ride you every freaking pass play we're going to call for you and we're going to get our money's worth out of you and they got him indoctrinated into the game very early on in the football game got them in a nice Rhythm and once they got that lead and you you felt like once they got to 17 to3 you kind of felt like ah man it doesn't look like Cleveland's going to be able to to mount enough offense here today to to make this a football game and that's the thing it was just a Suffocation where you don't need to have tremendous offensive statistics when the other side keeps self-destructing and putting you in position where you can score and you know they're not going to be able to respond and you get that sense you know it's not my day that's always the biggest challenge I think mentally for any quarterback particularly quarterback it applies to all players but when you feel like it's not your day can you conscious become aware of that and turn it around because so many guys just surrender to that and I feel like that's the fundamental problem with DeShawn Watson he's kind of decided it's not my career right I'm done and back in the old days he never accepted that I'm taking my 46 million a year no that was your big criticism of he treated every play like it was the last play of the Super Bowl now it just feels like he's going through the motions I'm going to get another 92 million after the 46 million I make this year and probably at that point my career will be over but look at all this money I will have made and I'll go disappear into the anonymity I would love to be a part of right now and live the rest of my life just get me through the next three years I just feel like that's his attitude get me through the next three years I hear you yeah I I hear you there I I I I I we got to see something different for me to it's all subject to change you're right it's week one we'll see but that was an ugly first start and again he didn't get the play in the preseason and he didn't get to practice much but again this is part of the problem with him right now he can't stay on the field to do anything to really regain that magic and there becomes a time where you you go so long without the magic I don't know if it ever comes back and and and we'll see where that goes other guy we gotta give a little credit for Mike Zimmer the old Vikings coach yep that you know I'll say this he gives them a different look on defense and with Dan Quinn who's a hell of a defensive coach and all that who moved on to be the head coach of the commanders I I love his defense he does a lot of great things but you've always heard me say it's a little aggressive it's a little too relying on manto man all the time right it's always that and that's why they've had pass interference problems and stuff like that in big games Zimmer I think is going to give them a little more versatility on that side of the ball and I think that like and when I say that is I mean just a little more you know game plan specific oh this week we're going to do this and next week we're going to do that and uh I'm excited for that and good for Mike Zimmer you know getting off to a good start there in Cleveland yesterday was a Dallas DC and how about Brandon aror I you know it's hard when we're watching multiple games at once we saw him lining up for a 71 yard field goal he did make a 66 yard wiped out by penalty delay of game and then they were going to try 71 and they decided not to do it they should have just what the hell well I think they saw Denzel Ward back there and they that's what scared them they went oh man we're going to have a bunch of blockers he runs 435 and I don't know if we're going to be able to catch him if he turns the corner so that's ultimately I think the smart decision because they were controlling the game to such a extent don't even give them uh a an inch or any wiggle room to feel good about themselves going into halftime hi it's Mike Florio thanks for watching PFT on YouTube hit subscribe for the latest news and Analysis from pro football talk