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The Cowboys can also get\u00a0Pickens involved early because his energy, according to offensive coordinator\u00a0Klayton Adams, is \u201ca bright spot for us when he\u2019s got the ball in his hands and when he\u2019s, for lack of a better term, talking s— to the defense. I know that I get excited.\u201d<\/p>\n
Getting a player such as\u00a0Pickens more involved in the offense is a combination of the playcaller, quarterback and receiver. It all has to work, then there\u2019s the defense on the other side trying to stop you.<\/p>\n
Finding easy answers for why Pickens hasn\u2019t gotten going like the Cowboys need him to is complex.<\/p>\n
To say that Schottenheimer calling him out will create problems isn\u2019t totally fair to the head coach or wide receiver.<\/p>\n
You want your head coach to use candor with the media. But at the same time, you wonder how a player receives reported criticism from his coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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You hope the player isn\u2019t surprised to hear what the head coach has said to the media about his shortcomings.<\/p>\n
Pickens had an interesting answer when asked what he can do to get more involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I\u2019m doing what they tell me to do,\u201d he said. \u201cSo do what they tell me to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pickens is either trying to avoid controversy or taking a veiled shot at the playcaller, in this case Schottenheimer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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When a team scores 29 points during a two-game losing streak, every comment is magnified. The criticism directed at Pickens intensifies, too.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cIt don\u2019t seem to bother him,\u201d Lamb said. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s not like we just sit around and talk about the bad things that people say. So as far as his approach towards coming to work and being the same guy every day, he still does that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens (3) sits on a case at the end of the bench during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,100199,93042,88227,88245],"class_list":["post-474974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-ceedee-lamb","tag-tp-dallas-cowboys","tag-tp-brian-schottenheimer","tag-tp-george-pickens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474974","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=474974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}