{"id":158361,"date":"2025-09-21T03:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158361\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T03:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:03:09","slug":"why-cowboys-ceedee-lamb-george-pickens-face-nfl-discipline-ahead-of-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158361\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cowboys&#8217; CeeDee Lamb, George Pickens face NFL discipline ahead of week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens pride themselves on their confidence, swagger, and showmanship. But sometimes it&#8217;s going to cost them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Case in point on Sunday against the Giants where both receivers picked up penalties that resulted in fines later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>After George Pickens scored his first touchdown of the season to put the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/dallas-cowboys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> ahead with 52 seconds remaining, he and Pickens executed a duo touchdown celebration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The moment was quick but it looked to infer guns or weapons being drawn by both wide receivers. Each wide receiver was fined $14,49, while Pickens collected another equal fine for removing his helmet.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL fined <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cowboys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#Cowboys<\/a> WRs CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens $14,491 each for unsportsmanlike conduct\/violent gesture on this touchdown celebration last week.<\/p>\n<p>Pickens was also fined another $14,491 for removing his helmet before leaving the field. No flags were thrown. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mgcgN3vhLg\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/mgcgN3vhLg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1969492455885066594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">September 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NFL has made it clear they&#8217;re focusing more on sportsmanship this season and these fines fall in line with that mantra.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the duo of talented receivers wasn&#8217;t already motivated entering week 3 against the Bears this can only push them further.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/new-york-giants\/news\/brian-daboll-fired-potential-replacement-coach\/525229c7e3aae4efa12e73e7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Could Brian Daboll be fired? 3 potential replacements for the Giants&#8217; head coach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens pride themselves on their confidence, swagger, and showmanship. But sometimes it&#8217;s going to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-158361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}