CeeDee Lamb isn’t shying away from the noise around the Cowboys. If anything, he’s adding to it.
With training camp rolling in Oxnard and Dallas drawing more and more Super Bowl chatter, Lamb laid out why he believes this team can be in the mix in 2026. The Cowboys have already been selling that belief from the top down, with Dak Prescott pushing a Super Bowl-or-bust message and even showing up in Oxnard wearing a Super Bowl champions t-shirt. Now Lamb is making the case from the receiver room.
Speaking to 105.3 The Fan, Lamb pointed first to what Dallas already knows it has: a loaded offense.
“I want to say for five of the seven years that I've been in the league, we've had a top-three offense, right? Let's go there.
We can start with the offense, and then we'll go to the defense. We can start with the offense.
You go look at every playmaker. We have a top five in every single.
Last year, we were top five in pretty much every category. We had two Pro Bowlers on offense on the O-line,” Lamb said.
He kept going, stacking up the pieces on that side of the ball.
“We had a tight end that went to the Pro Bowl, a QB that went to the Pro Bowl, two receivers that went to the Pro Bowl. Our running back went for 1,100 last year.
Our tight end is very phenomenal, right? O-line as a group.
Very young; they're meshing together.
The bigger question in Dallas has always been whether the defense can hold up its end. Lamb didn’t dodge that part either, but he made it clear he sees a very different unit taking shape under Christian Parker.
“So now, the problem that we had last year, right, I want to say that we had the No. 32nd-ranked [pass] defense, okay? You go get the No.
1 D-tackle, right, in Quinnen Williams. Then you've got Kenny Clark, right?
Then we go from Kenny Clark; then we go get Rashan, and then we draft another guy in Malachi Lawrence, and then we still have Donovan [Ezeiruaku], so we have our backers, we've got to keep [DeMarvion Overshown] healthy. I feel like if D-Mo is healthy, he's one of the best backers sideline to sideline.
Sideline to sideline, there's not many people playing with him. Dee Winters just came off 100 tackles last year because Fred Warner went down, right?
“And then our DBs are being coached by our defensive coordinator, who does a great job, I feel like, in the past couple years that he had with Philly, he's the main reason for their success. For one, guys are playing comfortable.
Guys are good in their own skin, and I feel like he's doing a great job of transferring that. Over here, he's getting the guys comfortable.
You can see he's playing to their strengths, and he's giving them the help that they need. Then you go draft a guy like Caleb Downs.
Caleb Downs is a very elite player. He's a roamer.
He can play this. He's very versatile.
He's a Swiss Army knife, right? And you put all those things together: you have a great D.C., then you have a great O.C.
We just got to go out there and do it.”
That’s the heart of the Cowboys’ case right now: talent on offense, upgrades on defense, and a staff that believes the pieces are finally lining up. The challenge is the one every camp dream eventually runs into - turning all that buzz into something that actually works once the games start and the new scheme has to stick.
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