Sean Lee increases work, eyes return, blasts anonymous Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys are searching high and low for positivity following another devastating loss in front of the world at the hands of the Arizona Cardinals on Monday Night Football. Some help to this historically bad defense may be on the way.
Linebacker Sean Lee has missed the first six games of the 2020 campaign after sports hernia surgery. Lee wasn’t able to participate in the brunt of this year’s training camp, and then had a procedure towards the start of the season that has kept him on injured reserve through the first six games. On Wednesday he was made available to the media and spoke about his increased activity.
“I’m feeling great physically and hopefully this week to be able to get out to practice, do some things depending on what Britt and the trainers want me to do but the hope is to get some (individual) work in and some scout team.”
Lee spoke about the details of the surgery and what work he’s done to prepare for a return.
“The surgery was tough. It was a core muscle surgery where they had to reattach abs to my pelvic bone so the first couple of weeks were hard but the last couple of weeks I’ve made a lot of jumps and I feel great.”
Lee is expected to take part in individual drills and be one step closer to returning to a defense that desperately needs his services. Lee returning would also provide plenty of veteran leadership on the field as well as providing input when trying to make mid game adjustments. This is something an anonymous source said the Cowboys were failing to do as a coaching staff.
Lee has heard the rumblings of a broken locker room and said that because a name wasn’t associated with this report that it shouldn’t rattle the Cowboys and side track them from where they want to be as a team.
“The first thing I think with anonymous sources, you never really can take them serious. First, they don’t put their name on it. Second, you don’t know if the person’s in the room, or not in the room. Maybe they were. Maybe they’re not now. Sometimes you don’t know if it’s through a secondhand source. Maybe it is a player, but maybe it’s coming through an agent. You just can’t speculate. So you have to just say, listen, the consensus in our locker room, with our defense right now, is that we all need to work hard. We all need to improve.”
Lee continued about wanting to address the return path is through counting on each other.
“There’s no pointing fingers. The only way out of this is to keep faith in each other. And we have that faith. Like we said, anything anonymous, we’re not going to worry about that. Somebody won’t put their name on it? So be it. But we know the group. We’re sticking together. We know we need to improve, and we’re going to continue to stick together and do that.”
2019 marked the first year in Lee’s career where he played in all 16 regular season games. Lee is holding himself accountable in getting right and staying right for the remainder of this season and hopefully seasons beyond 2020.
Cowboys LB Sean Lee: "I have to own up to consistently being injured. It's something that is unacceptable." His only career 16-game season came last year. "I need to stay healthy. I need to help when I get on the field because being on the sideline is doing nothing for the team."
— Michael Gehlken (@GehlkenNFL) October 21, 2020
The Cowboys are set to face the Washington Football Team this Sunday in Week 7 at Fed Ex Field. The defense already added talent back to the depth chart this week with the addition of freshly reinstated defensive end Randy Gregory. A win this Sunday would keep the Cowboys in first place in the NFC East through seven games.
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