Cowboys legend rips wide receivers in interview

The Dallas Cowboys are on a bye this week, boy has it been nothing but eventful. Not only was the Lions loss brutal enough, I am sure you all heard the mess Jerry Jones got himself into on the radio the other day.

Now, a Cowboys legend did not hold back on what he thinks of the current wide receiver situation going on with Dallas right now.

Troy Aikman, who played quarterback for the Cowboys for 12 seasons from 1989 to 2000, took his bluntest shots at the team’s wide receivers for running “terrible” routes.

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“I think they run terrible routes,” Aikman said on Dallas sports radio show 96.7 The Ticket on Thursday. “And I’ve thought that beyond this year. I think CeeDee (Lamb) has got to improve in his route running. As a quarterback, if you’re not certain where guys are going to be consistently, it’s hard to play the position,” he said.

“That’s what I see. I see guys lazy coming off the line of scrimmage. Sometimes they run, usually if they do, it’s because they’re anticipating they’re going to get the football on that play, but if they’re not, they don’t. And it all ties together. I’m not impressed with that part of it.”

Yikes, if the Jerry Jones stuff wasn’t enough, now the only quarterback that has ever won anything for Jones is lashing out at the team.

Former Cowboys QB Troy Aikman on @dfwticket on Dallas’ wide receivers: “I think the routes are terrible. I think they run terrible routes. And I’ve thought that beyond this year. I think CeeDee (Lamb) has got to improve in his route running. As a quarterback, if you’re not…

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“It’s hard to play the (QB) position if you’re not certain how guys are going to run routes or where they’re going to be,” Aikman said.

“And I’m not speaking for Dak (Prescott). Dak may say, ‘Hey, I think (their routes) are amazing.’ But as a former quarterback watching it, it’s gotta get a lot better.”

I agree with him. The interception that Dak Prescott threw in the first quarter against the Lions when they had a chance to take the lead was not great, but Lamb did not even try to turn into a defender and break it up.