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The Cowboys won’t pull their main players no matter the outcome for the remainder of the season.
As the Dallas Cowboys cling to the smallest of playoff hopes (less than one-percent odds after Sunday’s loss to the Minnesota Vikings), head coach Brian Schottenheimer is not planning on making any major changes to the lineup with three games left in the season.
While some teams tend to lean into personnel changes to evaluate the full roster when already eliminated from playoff contention, Schottenheimer said doing so would deviate from the team mantra all season: compete every day. Even though losing games would benefit draft positioning, Schottenheimer wants to do everything possible to win the team’s final three games.
“It doesn’t change,” Schottenheimer said on Wednesday. “We get judged on winning and losing, and we haven’t won enough games. Doesn’t mean there aren’t going to be things when we look back that we’re like, ‘Hey, we’ve built this and this is great. We really upgraded this position.’”
“I’m going to stay in the moment. I’m going to be all about the Chargers. After we go and play the Chargers, and hopefully win, I’m going to be all about the Commanders and then the Giants and see what happens. We’ll take a broader, bigger picture at that point.”
George Pickens fires back at recent comments concerning his effort.
FRISCO, Texas — George Pickens didn’t talk with reporters last week leading into the Dallas Cowboys’ Sunday night game against the Minnesota Vikings. The star wide receiver didn’t talk after the game, either.
Pickens did speak outside of the locker room after Wednesday’s practice at The Star.
The criticism he received for his lack of effort in Dallas’ Week 14 loss at Detroit is something he is trying to move past.
“I’m kind of more focused on the Chargers, honestly,” he said of the team’s Sunday opponent. “Everybody has a job to do. Some people’s job is to do that, tear down character, see how many clicks they can get. I’m just here to play football and help the team.”
But while responding to a follow-up question, Pickens added: “It’s starting to get kinda old, honestly.”
Pickens averaged 95 receiving yards per game and scored eight touchdowns over the first 12 games of the season. During the last two, he has no touchdowns and averaged 35 yards per game. Pickens said that drop-off in production can be attributed to him seeing more double coverage.
“Just keeping a guy inside and keeping a guy outside,” he explained, “or keeping a guy over the top and having a guy underneath, just on one side of the field, which is a...
