{"id":14220,"date":"2024-10-18T07:38:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T07:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=14220"},"modified":"2024-10-18T07:38:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T07:38:36","slug":"cowboys-great-troy-aikman-rips-lazy-136-million-star-fellow-wrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=14220","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys Great Troy Aikman Rips \u2018Lazy\u2019 $136 Million Star, Fellow WRs.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2172216573-e1729183747864.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2172216573-e1729183747864.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2172216573-e1729183747864.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GettyImages-2172216573-e1729183747864.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb (middle)\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" data-img-load-time=\"456\" data-dom-ready-time=\"471\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span>Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb (middle)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In terms of personnel,\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0backers are aware of the attrition that struck in the last seven months, with the team allowing key free agents to leave and not doing all that much to replace them. Don\u2019t mention past transactions to Jerry Jones, of course, but when it comes to Cowboys great Troy Aikman, you might get a more honest assessment of what\u2019s going on with the messiest 3-3 team in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Offseason moves aside, Aikman said on Thursday that the Cowboys problems are not limited to the players who are no longer on the team\u2014there\u2019s plenty to worry about with the players who are still around.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Dallas sports radio, 96.7 The Ticket, Aikman laid into one of the units that is not supposed to be all that bad for the Cowboys: the receivers.<\/p>\n<p>And he started with star playmaker CeeDee Lamb, who was given a four-year, $136 million contract\u00a0after missing training camp and most of the preseason, but has not been up to snuff yet this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the routes are terrible. I think they run terrible routes,\u201d Aikman said (via Jon Machota of The Athletic). \u201cAnd I\u2019ve thought that beyond this year. I think\u00a0CeeDee (Lamb) has got to improve in his route running. As a quarterback, if you\u2019re not certain where guys are going to be consistently, it\u2019s hard to play the position. That\u2019s what I see\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>CeeDee Lamb Not the Only WR at Fault<\/h2>\n<p>The criticism was not limited to Lamb, either. The Cowboys\u2019 No. 2 receiver, Brandin Cooks, has been out with an infection in his knee that will cause him to miss four games (he has missed two). Not having his veteran leadership has hurt, but the problems go beyond Cooks.<\/p>\n<p>Said Aikman: \u201cI see guys lazy coming off the line of scrimmage. Sometimes they run, usually if they do, it\u2019s because they\u2019re anticipating they\u2019re going to get the football on that play, but if they\u2019re not, they don\u2019t. And it all ties together. I\u2019m not impressed with that part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lamb is the most obvious target, though, because he is coming off a year in which he led the league and set a franchise record with\u00a0135 receptions, for 1,749 yards. \u00a0His yards per game have dropped from 102.9 last year to 77.8 this year, and he is catching just 58.2% of the balls thrown his way.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s No. 3 receiver,\u00a0Jalen Tolbert, has played well, with 24 catches and 290 yards, and a 70.6% catch rate. But he is inexperienced, as are the Cowboys\u2019 other options,\u00a0Kavontae Turpin\u00a0and\u00a0Jalen Brooks.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cowboys\u2019 Dak Prescott Putting up Subpar Numbers<\/h2>\n<p>Aikman offered his view of what\u2019s happening with the Cowboys receivers as a defense of quarterback\u00a0Dak Prescott,\u00a0who is also collecting a major new contract, having landed a $240 million, four-year deal just before the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>But Prescott has been under pressure thanks to the Cowboys putting out two rookies on the offensive line, and combined with the lack of execution from the receivers, Prescott has been able to put up only eight touchdowns and six interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>His\u00a085.5 quarterback rating\u00a0is the worst of his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to play the (quarterback) position if you\u2019re not certain how guys are going to run routes or where they\u2019re going to be,\u201d Aikman said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m not speaking for Dak (Prescott). Dak may say, \u2018Hey, I think (their routes) are amazing.\u2019 But as a former quarterback watching it, it\u2019s gotta get a lot better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GettyCowboys WR CeeDee Lamb (middle) In terms of personnel,\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0backers are aware of the attrition that struck in the last seven months, with the team allowing key free&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cowboys Great Troy Aikman Rips \u2018Lazy\u2019 $136 Million Star, Fellow WRs.. - Sport News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=14220\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cowboys Great Troy Aikman Rips \u2018Lazy\u2019 $136 Million Star, Fellow WRs.. - 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