“Not necessarily,” Lamb said. “We didn’t take advantage. Just got to be aggressive in those situations. Surtain’s a great player… I feel like we [should’ve] taken advantage of those opportunities.”
His counterpart George Pickens fully agreed.
“Yea, definitely,” Pickens said when asked if he thought the Cowboys’ should’ve been more aggressive going after Surtain’s replacement.. “And then counterparts too, we can only work off the defense and the defense can only work off us. So I feel like, like I said, execution on both sides would help us prevail through this game.”
Following the game, head coach Brian Schottenheimer said that the Cowboys did go after the side where Denver’s secondary was weak. Following that, Dak Prescott added his thoughts on the matter.
“It’s a lot that goes into that,” Prescott said. “You’ve got two elite guys out at receiver, I don’t really honestly care who is guarding them, no disrespect to the guys out there, even Surtain. It’s not like ‘Oh, he’s [not] out there, I need to attack this other guy.’ No, I was just fine attacking [Riley Moss].”
“The opportunities, we didn’t make them when they presented themselves, and they did a better job.”
Now, there’s no worth in looking at what could have been with Surtain out of the game as Dallas didn’t capitalize on their chances with him sidelined. At 3-4-1, the Cowboys need to focus on getting back to .500 with a home game coming up against the Arizona Cardinals. What gives their players confidence that they can bounce back from a performance like this?
“One, we’ve proved it before,” Pickens said. “And then secondly, like I said, execution, more detail, and coming back to work, instead of coming back to work with ‘Aw, we lost,’ move on to the next thing, try to get better.”