CeeDee Lamb could only watch from the sideline in the final seconds of the best game of his career, hoping it would be enough for a 16th consecutive home victory for the Dallas Cowboys.
It was, because the Cowboys survived a 2-point conversion fest with Detroit going for the win.
The first of Dak Prescott’s two touchdown passes was a 92-yarder to Lamb, and Dallas stopped the third 2-point try from the Lions after they were penalized when they converted the first with 23 seconds remaining in the Cowboys’ 20-19 victory Saturday night.
On the first conversion try after Jared Goff’s 11-yard touchdown pass to Amon-Ra St. Brown, Goff completed a pass to lineman Taylor Decker, but he was ruled to be an ineligible receiver.
The Lions went for 2 again from the 7-yard line and were stopped on an interception that didn’t even reach the end zone, but the Cowboys were called for offsides.
But Campbell led off the press conference by saying that both he’s over it, and the team will use it as motivation going forward.
“I’m good. I woke up yesterday, I’m ready, man,” Campbell said. “I’ve got controlled fury, and I’m ready to go. I’m absolutely ready to go.
I don’t go the other way, and the team won’t either. We’re on a mission, and we’re not going to feel sorry for ourselves and wallow in everything.
We had plays to make and we didn’t make them. It’s a tight game, a good opponent, a playoff-type atmosphere, and you’ve got to make that one extra play that we didn’t.
“So we will use this as fuel. I’ve got pure octane right now. I woke up, I’m ready. So we’re moving forward.”
Campbell compared this incident to one he experienced with the New Orleans Saints.
Officials missed a blatant pass interference in the NFC Championship game during the 2018-19 NFL playoffs, essentially sending the Rams to the Super Bowl.
Campbell called the Cowboys incident a “blessing,” because, unlike the Saints, the Lions are still alive and can use this moving forward.
“We got a taste of what that is like (to lose), but we’ve still got a chance,” Campbell said.
“We haven’t even started the tournament, so I think it’s a blessing.”
