Tuesday marked one week till the 2025 NFL commerce deadline, and it’s going to be attention-grabbing to see what the Dallas Cowboys select to do (or not do for that matter). A subject of dialogue as of late involving the upcoming deadline is extensive receiver George Pickens.
The Cowboys acquired Pickens within the offseason for what was successfully their 2026 third-round choose. An argument might be made that the Pittsburgh Steelers really feel some regret about shifting somebody as proficient as Pickens is proving as soon as once more to be, however the topic of regret is kind of why we’re chatting immediately.
Ed Werder reported on Tuesday that Dallas has but to have any conversations with Pickens a few potential extension with the membership.
Pickens has been a revelation of a participant for the Cowboys. They’d be considerably worse with out him. A really perfect world is one the place he’s catching passes from Dak Prescott and reverse of CeeDee Lamb for the foreseeable future.
Context issues, although. Importantly, context about how the Cowboys have dealt with contract extensions issues. Context about who the crew is in our present second carries nice weight as effectively.
Dallas has dealt with extension talks with their superstars in somewhat poor trend over the previous couple of years. Dak Prescott (on a number of situations), and CeeDee Lamb, needed to undergo the ringer to get their offers and so they got here on the eleventh hour. Micah Parsons went by the same course of and the scenario turned so contentious that the Cowboys traded him to the Inexperienced Bay Packers. Within the crew’s protection, they did instantly get long-term offers achieved with DaRon Bland, Tyler Smith, and Hunter Luepke following the Parsons commerce, however who they’ve been for a few half decade now issues with Pickens.
We all know that the Cowboys are a middling crew in 2025 and are unlikely to win the Tremendous Bowl. Given the truth that Pickens is in a contract 12 months in the mean time and the commerce deadline is approaching, the concept of buying and selling him away and cashing out deserves dialogue. That is notably true for those who count on the Cowboys to deal with extension talks with him with their typical shenanigans.
There’s nothing stopping the Cowboys from getting an extension achieved with Pickens now (talking matter of factly). It is sensible that Pickens would need to wait at this level, given the success he has had to date this season, and use a possible open market to his benefit. That is one other scenario (like Prescott, Lamb and Parsons) the place the Cowboys allowed leverage to slide away from them into the fingers of their gamers.
None of that is an advocating for buying and selling Pickens. (I need the other personally). However what most of us need, finally, is for the Cowboys to have some kind of plan. Their lack of a real North Star has burned them many instances in the previous couple of years. In the identical offseason that they traded for Pickens in a win-now kind of transfer, they traded away Parsons, placing the longer term extra in focus. These items don’t serve the identical finish aim.
That’s what issues most right here. A plan needs to be in place. Whether it is and so they observe it, even when it’s a plan we disagree with, then on the very least they’re focusing all of their efforts and power on one singular thought.
What do you assume that concept is, if we assume they’re doing so?
