Any questions surrounding Pickens’ ability to mentally move past those drops were answered as he and the Cowboys’ offense get ready for another talented defense in Week 2.<\/p>\n
In other words, he’s already past it.<\/p>\n
“It’s football,” said the Pro Bowler. “You’re gonna have something here. You’re gonna have something there. But you definitely wanna limit those, and to make the big plays, because that’s what I know what I’m capable of. Football is football, and I’m just trying to get better.”<\/p>\n
To his point, Pickens delivered a breakout season after being traded to the Cowboys in 2025.<\/p>\n
The former second-round pick racked up 1,429 receiving yards and nine touchdowns, career bests in both categories, with a career-high catch percentage, to boot. That means it’s fair to say Pickens won’t continue letting the ball hit the ground, a two-time (nearly three-time) 1,000-yard receiver at the NFL level that routinely creates his own highlight reel on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n
But assuming that remains true, there are still other aspects the Cowboys, as a whole, need to address to make sure they secure victory in their home opener this weekend.<\/p>\n
“[That was] the first game, but I know we got a lot more games to come,” he said of the loss to the Giants. “But, definitely as a unit, and I think Schotty said that, too: as a team, I feel like we could have started a little faster. [It’s] always motivating, [though].<\/p>\n
“… We probably, as a team, all can get better, and we will when we come out this weekend.”<\/p>\n
The assignment is known, the instructions are clear, and the next test is on its way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Any questions surrounding Pickens’ ability to mentally move past those drops were answered as he and the Cowboys’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,151520,5962,1090,6349],"class_list":["post-438553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-featured-wasvsdal-2026","tag-george-pickens","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-patrik-walker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}