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The All-Pro won’t let Week 1 ruin his confidence.
Prescott also doesn’t feel the need to pull his No. 1 receiver to the side for a long dialogue of any sort, especially seeing how hard he’s already being on himself.
“There wasn’t a big, long talk we needed to have,” Prescott said. “He took ownership and accountability. He shut me up in the same sense of taking accountability. It wasn’t just those plays. There are throws I want back. But it’s Game 1, and he’s a guy who’s gonna make those plays. We’re not gonna get down on him or lose confidence in him, by any means.
“He will make those plays [in the future].”
To that point, Lamb himself sounded as if he was equal parts disappointed and seething, seeing opportunities to break the game open when it mattered most literally slip through his fingers on more than one occasion.
So much so that he issued a warning to the entire league.
“I will tell you that if you think I’m not coming back 80 times harder than this — you’ve got another thing coming,” the four-time Pro Bowler said. “… God has a mysterious way of humbling folks, and I did come in with a little bit of a chip on my shoulder. Lesson well learned. I deserve everything that comes with it.
… The [drops] down the stretch really hurt me a lot because I’ve prayed for those types of things. But, again, it’s Game 1. I’ll be back. I just hope everybody else is ready.”
Brian Schottenheimer passed with flying colors in his first game as head coach.
PHILADELPHIA — The opening night reviews are in. And if Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is the No. 1 critic for Brian Schottenheimer, then the first-year head coach shouldn’t have much to worry about.
Even if his team came out on the wrong side of a 24-20 decision on the road to the reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.
“He had this team ready to play,” Jones said after the game. “He had them prepared on all sides of the ball. He had them mentally ready to play. I’m just sorry that when it got down to it and we needed to make those plays we didn’t get ‘em made. But we all know we played a good team out there tonight.
“I give Brian, I give his staff all the credit in the world.”
The more things change the more they stay the same.
PHILADELPHIA — Sam Williams had Jalen Hurts right where he wanted him.
The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback had broken the pocket...
