{"id":149104,"date":"2025-09-11T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149104\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:16:08","slug":"george-pickens-im-not-worried-about-touches-im-focused-on-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/149104\/","title":{"rendered":"George Pickens: I&#8217;m not worried about touches, I&#8217;m focused on winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer fielded questions about wide receiver George Pickens\u2019 effort level on Wednesday and said that he didn\u2019t <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/brian-schottenheimer-no-issue-with-george-pickens-effort-in-week-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">see any problems<\/a> with it during the team\u2019s season-opening loss to the Eagles. <\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Dak Prescott targeted Pickens four times in the game and he caught three of those balls for 30 yards, which meant that Pickens also fielded questions about how he\u2019s feeling on Wednesday. Pickens played a more central role in the offense in Pittsburgh, but said at his press conference that he wasn\u2019t bothered by how often the ball came his way last Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust really staying open for them,\u201d Pickens said. \u201cI\u2019m not really worried about the touches, catches, all that stuff. I\u2019m just trying to stay open for the team. I\u2019m trying to focus on the first win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Win or lose, there will likely continue to be attention paid to targets and effort level throughout the season. Those questions are easier to answer off a win, though, and the Cowboys will try for one against the Giants this weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer fielded questions about wide receiver George Pickens\u2019 effort level on Wednesday and said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-149104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}