In the big picture, Cowboys receiver CeeDee Lamb can understand that he should, indeed, feel lucky. When he landed on his back and hit his head on the turf at Ford Field on Thursday in the 44-30 loss to the Lions, Lamb suffered a concussion, and the fact that he was pulled off the field and into the locker room to prevent any further neurological damage is a good thing.
At the time, though, Lamb was having his best game of the season. It was early in the third quarter and he’d racked up 121 yards on six catches. Lamb wanted to stay in the game, and he told doctors that. But it was obvious he’d suffered a concussion–his third known concussion on the field–and was not exactly feeling himself lucky or overjoyed.
“I was p—ed off. There wasn’t much happiness going on,” he said on Thursday afternoon at The Star after Cowboys practice.
CeeDee Lamb Won’t Let Worries Interfere With Play
But Lamb gets it. And the good news is that now, a week later, Lamb has cleared concussion protocol and will be back on the field on Sunday against the Vikings in a must-win game if the Cowboys are to keep their slender playoff chances alive. He practiced on Thursday.
One of the worries about him returning to the field is that he might find himself playing with a good dose of fear, concerned about hitting his noggin on the turn again or taking a helmet-to-helmet hit over the middle.
Lamb vowed that would not be an issue.
“Really, it’s like staying level, just being positive about each and every opportunity you get, and just staying blessed,” Lamb said. “You have to go out there first and play your game and don’t really think too much on it. I’ve been hurt a couple times and I don’t dwell on it. I hit my head a couple of times. I don’t dwell on it. You have to move on. It’s a part of the game.”
CeeDee Lamb: ‘Process Has Been Cool’
Lamb said the process of getting back on the field for the Cowboys has been more tedious than anything, but he did manage to get a significant level of rest, which is potentially bad news for the Vikings.
“The process has been cool,” Lamb said. “There has been a lot of eye work and eye discipline and I guess trying to frustrate myself essentially to see if I have any more residuals of the concussion and like if I have any type of symptoms.
“To me now, it’s been heavy on rest to be honest. Doing everything, meeting all my requirements to try to get ahead of everything especially with the extra two-to-three days that we had off. That was great.”
Cowboys Pulled Star Immediately
Again, Lamb acknowledges that he was angry with NFL doctors who took him off the field against the Lions and brought him to the Cowboys locker room. In the HBO “Hard Knocks” in-season NFC East documentary, it was clear that Lamb was not happy about not being able to get back in the game.
But he is grateful now.
“They’re doing their job and obviously me as a competitor, I want to do mine,” he said. “But there’s times when they do have to protect me from me. And that was a situation where that was one of them. I was having a pretty good game, I was just getting it started, getting it cooking.
“But me playing reckless–not so much reckless just putting myself out there, I feel like, giving my guys my all. That was one of the, I guess, disciplinary actions to say the least.”
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