CeeDee Lamb Reveals Brutal Cowboys Truth: 'Talent Never The Issue; It's Discipline'

The Dallas Cowboys and discipline have never really gone in the same sentence over the past couple of years, but under Brian Schottenheimer, they will.

Or at least that's the plan.

With another fight happening in Oxnard, that saw Ajani Cornelius be thrown out of practice after throwing a punch, and Schottenheimer reading the riot act to his team, the entire roster was forced to run from sideline to sideline constantly for a handful of minutes as punishment.

Schottenheimer could be heard yelling a few curse words, and for CeeDee Lamb, he offered a PG version, along with a rather truthful statement about teams from previous years to what he hopes this team can become.

“Do we want to be champions? Because throughout the years of us being here, talent was never the problem for us, it was always discipline,” Lamb said. “How do we get ahead and not behind? How do we not shoot ourselves in the foot? How do we not hurt ourselves when the momentum is going our way? We need to continue to keep our foot on the pedal and make the right play and always think about the team.”

Under Mike McCarthy, the Cowboys were in the top five for most penalized teams in the last two seasons, and often it wasn't the actual penalty that was the problem (although any penalty isn't good), it was the timing of them.

After a third-down conversion, bumping into the kicker on 4th down to give the opposition a fresh set of downs, a false start on first-and-10, and so on.

Lamb is fully aware that the Cowboys have to stop the self-inflicted wounds. Winning in the NFL is tough enough as it is, let alone Dallas helping teams beat them. And it is clear that Schottenheimer wants his team to be far more disciplined than they have been across the opening week in Oxnard.

If not? Get ready to run.