{"id":487282,"date":"2024-11-22T06:08:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=487282"},"modified":"2024-11-22T06:08:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T10:08:07","slug":"pickens-slights-cleveland-blames-defeat-on-snow-officials","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pickens-slights-cleveland-blames-defeat-on-snow-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickens slights Cleveland, blames defeat on snow, officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though the Cleveland Browns ended the Pittsburgh Steelers&#8217; 5-match winning streak with a 24-19 victory on TNF, Pittsburgh WR George Pickens downplayed his opponent\u2019s abilities and blamed the defeat on the weather as show was pouring during the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The snow played a huge, huge part in today&#8217;s match,&#8221; the wide receiver claimed. &#8220;In my opinion, the Cleveland Browns are not a good organization at all. I believe the conditions helped them a lot today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>George had the chance to make a late TD catch, but he shared that he and Wilson couldn&#8217;t connect in the end zone because of the weather.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The snow, the conditions limited us a lot,&#8221; Pickens added. &#8220;I don&#8217;t even think the quarterback could see sometimes. And when you play in a weather like that, at the opponents&#8217; home stadium, they have a huge advantage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers wide receiver, who finished with 4 catches on 7 targets for 48 yards, also blamed the referees for the defeat. Pickets was unhappy with referees not calling pass interference on CB Martin Emerson Jr. during a deep 3<sup>rd<\/sup>-down attempt from Justin Fields in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter, showing his anger after the play.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Notice during the final Hail Mary, George Pickens &amp; Greg Newsome fighting almost into the stands.<\/p>\n<p>Newsome called Pickens a \u201cfake tough guy\u201d after the game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jGKQtzEqwK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jGKQtzEqwK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; uSTADIUM (@uSTADIUM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uSTADIUM\/status\/1859833841869062451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the Cleveland Browns ended the Pittsburgh Steelers&#8217; 5-match winning streak with a 24-19 victory on TNF, Pittsburgh WR George Pickens downplayed his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":487284,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16975,17324,17148],"news_category":[16703,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17995,23374,17873,18446],"acf":{"announce":"The Steelers player blamed outside factors for the loss.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/487282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/487282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487285,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/487282\/revisions\/487285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487282"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=487282"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=487282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}