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The G-Bag Nation reacted to everything they heard from the Dallas Cowboys at their 2026 Pre-Draft Press Conference.
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00:00how sure can you be right now that gp is gonna play this season seems like they're coming in
00:05awful strong this is david muligheta you're negotiating with you think you think he's
00:12gonna let you come in that strong what the cowboys are saying is well you're asking for way too much
00:17we have nothing more to discuss for the next five months really you know we'll just see it training
00:23camp and we'll play football because there's no way in he double hockey sticks you're getting a
00:27long-term contract what you're asking for um so i i i you know i right now i am less
00:33sure than
00:33pickens is going to play in 2026 than i've been at any point in this process how we doing tonight
00:38wow coming out of the gates baby i mean it definitely clubbed us all over the head did
00:42it not i mean just being that transparent and blunt with the idea of no we're not even really keeping
00:49our options open here we know we have george for the year we don't really like dealing with his agent
00:54everybody in the league is telling you they would like to see george pickens do it again before they
00:58risk a long-term deal with them so we're the same way let's go and i think walchuck makes a
01:03great point
01:03though when it comes to the lack of leverage that he has because it's you've had teams teams have had
01:12all offseason now to put in offers put in feelers see what the deal is how can we pry away
01:17george pickens
01:18hadn't happened simply hasn't happened so i don't know what your what your counter move is if
01:23you're mola getta other than hey we are going to withhold our services and we're just going to
01:28pray to god that it affects y'all so much on the field that you just get desperate and say
01:32forget
01:32it let's go ahead and get something done because he's missing training camp and or regular season
01:37games and we're paying the price on the field for it that's the only leverage you have yeah and
01:42withholding the services i guess it you know kind of works but it's really you know it's not going to
01:48impact the the bottom line for you in any way and could in fact make it look worse for you
01:53exactly
01:54as other teams are wondering how much of a teammate you are i do feel bad for gp he must
01:58be looking
01:59around like what did i do you know since when does pro sports need you to be a boy scout
02:06and check off
02:06every single box to get rewarded you know yeah yeah i get it because i do think it's weird like
02:11all the
02:12issues you have with george pickens are relatively small compared to other things that other players
02:18have done and teams have been willing to put up with yeah right just on that scale spit on a
02:23dude
02:23in the middle of a game you know gp i forgot about that gp has never done anything close to
02:29that um
02:30you know uh and he's at least more manly about it where he's like i'm just gonna fight you and
02:35beat
02:35your ass i'm not gonna do the demeaning thing of spitting on you yeah and i'm just fighting the
02:39other team you know exactly i'm just in a mono v mono out here on this island trying to make
02:44sure
02:44this db knows that i can score every time if the quarter if i just had competent quarterback play and
02:48you know if you want to fight i will absolutely kick your ass you know sometimes while the play is
02:53going on um you know so i i do i do think for george maybe it could be tough and
03:00maybe that's why
03:00dac the other day at that at the cancer gala there with troikman said george is in the right spot
03:05just
03:05letting his agent handle things while he focuses on football and and handling what what he can but
03:12it must be pretty confusing i i think on on his side but you know the point that you make
03:17about
03:18what leverage he has is is very key here because you don't want to um you know even consider not
03:25taking the 27.2 million dollars to play 17 games of football it's still a hell of a deal yeah
03:31especially
03:31for a guy that hasn't been making that much money yeah yeah i mean there's no benefit in not playing
03:37i mean you could sit out 10 weeks uh and then you need to come out and play yeah that's
03:42what i was
03:42kind of worried about are you are you worried about him absolutely not playing 10 games that's that's
03:50the thing i would worry about but i feel like he could miss 10 games sign the tag and then
03:54be eligible
03:55for the he would still punt on about 65 percent of the contract yeah that's to gain the accredited year
04:01and then you can hit free agency that's according to todd archer which i mean makes a ton of sense
04:04but i just don't think big picture that benefits him in any way you're still going to have the same
04:09it's even worse yeah it's super risky for him to do that because you're losing out on part of the
04:13money for the season that you would have been guaranteed out of that 27 million you're not
04:17going to get all that now now you got to wonder how are you are you hitting the ground running
04:21and
04:21just being mr productive after not playing for the first 10 weeks of the season and now you're you're
04:26still just gonna be an all pro caliber wide receiver day one when you get in there how many games
04:31does it take you to really start to figure it out and and then the reputation factor of like
04:36other teams once again okay here's george the selfishness thing that kind of deal as you're
04:40trying to get a big money deal from another team in free agency next year okay uh 609 the tag
04:46will
04:46hurt the salary cap yeah that's the other thing is like the cowboys have no interest in freeing up
04:50additional money by doing a long-term deal that it could allow them to address other positions to me
04:55it's like the hay's already in the barn that's already cost you free agency's over like you're you're
05:00pretty much done now you're not you're not making a huge big money acquisition in july
05:05no but you could trade for a linebacker making 14 15 mil you know at any point between now and
05:11week
05:11eight or nine of the nfl season that's that's money you won't free up uh to address are they so
05:17are they
05:17so tight that they still couldn't do that um still could yeah yeah they could i think they could add
05:23one 10 12 million dollar player right now pay their draft class the tag decision before free agency
05:28lets you know they they don't really care about that yeah because that's when you make the decision
05:32hey we want to have enough space so that we can really go hard in the paint when it comes
05:36to free
05:37agency and they already made that choice then you put this along with the background of the jordan
05:42tyson interest and that appears to be a legitimate possibility todd archer took tyson in the espn
05:50national mock draft that was published i think last night um and nick harris star telegram put jordan
05:56tyson on his list of nine players that could be the picks at 12 or 20 and all this is
06:01is tea leaf
06:02type type stuff but it appears that jordan tyson being one of the picks tomorrow is is realistic
06:08could the cowboys be setting it up to hit us with another trait of an all pro level player and
06:15you
06:16know they're just not broadcasting it to the world exactly as they did with micah parsons last year what's
06:21your gut telling you over there brian i don't think that they're going to trade him i think that
06:28they're banking on the fact that he's not going to leave the money on the table so i think that's
06:34why
06:34they're they're going to do what they're going to do i just listen i it's the thing with i think
06:40the
06:40thing with these wide receivers that they're talking about i think it's legitimately more about that they
06:47don't want to reach on a defensive player yeah they they they would rather in in all the things that
06:54i've ever wanted people to do that i've tried to help with the draft take your best player don't make
07:00mistakes in the top 10 top 12 take the best player on the board dallas has done this for years
07:06under
07:06will mcclay when they're picking high they tend to go for the best player it's when they get past a
07:11certain point and all of a sudden it turns into reaching or need or something like that that's where
07:17they make mistakes i think these wide receivers are being mentioned just because of that if they're
07:22losing i don't think this has anything to do with george pickens i think this has more to do with
07:27let's
07:27not make a mistake i think everybody in this room feels like that there's not going to be a wide
07:33receiver
07:33picking for them to pick when they get to 12 that the two wide receivers that they really like are
07:39going to
07:39be off the board so would that mean delaying you know i i'm hearing things like if there's going to
07:45be a trade-up kansas city's the team you need to look at that's that's that's a small trade-up
07:52and i
07:53was hearing that maybe that it was if there was a trade-up it would be for delaying actually so
08:00that
08:00which i believe is what peter schrager had in his mind that's that's what that's what a lot of people
08:04believe are going to happen and i i i know peter schrager i haven't talked to peter schrager
08:09but but that seems like it's not i mean we want them to go we want them to go to
08:14arizona at three
08:16or we want them to go to cleveland at six it just seems like it's at nine but they they
08:21would go
08:22they would go to make sure they got a defensive player if if in fact that's what they want to
08:27do
08:27but to answer your question dawson again i don't think the wide receiver i think it's just more about
08:32the value of where they've had the player stacked and they're like we're not going to we're not going
08:38to reach for falk or somebody like that at 12 when we could take one of these players these wide
08:46receivers that we've graded uh extremely high and and just make it work i don't know i think it's
08:52awful coincidental they've never paid two wide receivers at the same time top of the market money
08:57uh you know i think mulligeta is going to be working all summer trying to find a trade partner
09:03that would be willing to give up 20 27 picks and give george pickens a long-term deal and i
09:08think
09:09they have to have a healthy respect for how bad things went last summer with with micah even though
09:16they didn't anticipate it was going to get as bad as it did it did eventually get there because of
09:21the
09:21son of a gun they're dealing with who might be the most powerful agent in the nfl and the agent
09:28the cowboys have the worst relationship with um so you know i i think they got to feel like if
09:34we if
09:35we had to depend on ryan flannoy as wide receiver too that might limit you know what we can do
09:41we're
09:41right now we're mitigating the lack of quality tackle play by having these two wide receivers you take
09:49that away our offense is broken now now we need we need a much better protection for dac prescott and
09:56the only player in the nfl draft that represents the ability to do that is you know probably jordan
10:02tyson yeah and it makes running the football that much harder as well yeah part of the reason why
10:07you're able to run the ball as well as you did is because teams had to respect the fact that
10:10you had
10:10two wide receiver ones out there okay the franklin franklin injury attorney text traffic is is quite
10:16good you know if you're listening to the press conference it was it was shocking i got a call
10:20right as i jumped in the truck so i'm listening to like normal pre-draft presser and then when that
10:25phone call ends i hear bill clinton's voice and i'm like who is that why does this voice sound so
10:31familiar but i can't place it and then i picked up for the context from the following moments that it
10:37was bill clinton and then it almost immediately goes into steven jones saying yep george pickens is going
10:43to play on the tech we got to hear from george now right what do you think we could hear
10:47from george
10:47somebody's going to call him right yeah maybe otas uh if he's there i mean like dac said they're
10:53working out together he's been he's been working out with him i mean i think i think george is going
10:58to show up yeah i don't you know the the one opportunity we have i think in history and i
11:03don't
11:03know there might be more is the levy on bell yeah levy on that did not go well for him
11:08that did not go
11:09and levy on bell you know was like he didn't it was i think it was 14 and a half
11:13million dollars
11:14that he left on the table and you know afterwards he was like gosh i should have never done that
11:20i
11:20just don't see george pickens leaving uh 24 million dollars on the table yeah right now i i just don't
11:28you know with the four he made last year 3.8 whatever it was couldn't you see his agent working
11:33him to
11:33another team i could but see that's where i think i disagree with you because he as david muligheta
11:43this whole time that they gave him an opportunity to negotiate he didn't get him to work to any other
11:48team right has he just been sitting on his hands that's what i mean that's what i'm saying i don't
11:52think i think that david muligheta knew that maybe dallas was going to do this i just don't think teams
11:58are interested in george pickens i i think that i think that there's already been that hey listen
12:03pick up the phone like hey listen buddy of mine at buffalo buddy of mine at miami buddy of mine
12:09at
12:09wherever i mean he's trying to sell george pickens people are like man we ain't buying george pickens
12:14steven said that you know jerry and shoddy met with gp last week and jerry and steven met with the
12:21agent
12:22last week so this might just be four or five days old and as we go through this week and
12:29through otas
12:30this is muligheta's first couple of weeks into truly pursuing it especially if george pickens
12:37doesn't want to leave you know well then he then me personally if i'm george pickens i take i say
12:43we're
12:43going to sign this tag and we're going to go play if that's their if that's their attitude let's let's
12:49go play i mean i'm not he goes hey i'm about to make 24 more million dollars than i made
12:54last year
12:55yeah let's go play and we'll figure this thing out and if not here we'll figure it out someplace else
13:01as convincing as jerry can be with players and with deals i think muligheta is that level of
13:06convincing with his clients and he he is going to be in gp's ear we're not settling you know we're
13:13we
13:13could get nine figures guaranteed and lock up generational wealth you go out and have an acl or jalen
13:21smith drop foot situation you could wave goodbye to enough money to buy a massive corporation then i
13:28will go back to i will play the george pickens side of things then why didn't you do this before
13:34why are we just picking this up now then well because the the cowboys are just making it clear
13:39we're not negotiating anymore with you i think they made it clear that they weren't going to negotiate
13:44with him when they they tagged him maybe they did maybe they told him that well no i'm not i
13:51mean
13:51by tagging him you're saying well i go out there you're telling them by the by the tag they gave
13:57him
13:57the non-exclusive right they they there's several tags you can use yeah they use the one to say okay
14:04you think you can negotiate a deal somewhere go do it gave them the right to match gave them the
14:09right
14:09to say listen we're not going to match we'll take your picks so they tagged him in a way that
14:15opened
14:15the door for david mulighetta to call other teams yeah i just don't want to underestimate
14:20underestimate david mulighetta i would never do that not with a guy that's negotiated a billion
14:24dollars worth of contracts no i wouldn't either but i think that i and he got the cowboys to trade
14:30a superstar player for the first time right since herschel walker well i think it changes if they do
14:36if one of those receivers falls or maybe they take one at 20 like maybe they like omar cooper jr
14:41i
14:41think if they get a quarterback in the first round or wide receiver excuse me that they feel good about
14:46maybe it changes their asking price which could then change teams wanting to pursue him i think
14:53right now if you're and i'm if i'm the cowboys i'm holding on to the one but maybe afterwards you're
14:58like hey we just drafted a rookie receiver we feel good about it we don't have the intention to pay
15:02george pickens long term financially so if you want to offer a two we'll take the two for next
15:08year maybe that's that's the only way i see him not being here is if they take a wide receiver
15:12in
15:12the first round and just sell him for pennies i mean i mean that second round pick's still good but
15:17but yes i'm like i would think you can get him for more but the best you could get see
15:20that's that
15:21it just it just seems really strange to me right now that they're you know they they gave teams the
15:27opportunity yeah if you want to say you know if teams could say all right well dallas you gave
15:32him you you draft you if dallas trades him for a third or less than a third they lost yeah
15:39that
15:39makes us lost they lost the deal here crazy yeah they sell him just because they drafted
15:44tyson at at 12 that they that's a loss you know well if you had a two no unless a
15:51three or less
15:52yeah i'm with you on that i had a team tell me would i had a team tell me if
15:56you if you don't
15:57get a one for him why trade him yeah don't trade him if you don't get if you don't get
16:02uh who knows
16:03maybe if a team wanted a receiver they didn't get theirs like could that also open them up to be
16:07able
16:07to give up a one i don't know i mean but i think that that i don't think he's playing
16:10anywhere else
16:11but dallas unless they draft a receiver in the first round
16:13you
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