Signing players early!

[KingCorcoran]

I'm not giving him a max deal, or max aav deal. I'd rather let him play on the tag, but I would offer somewhere around 30 but with an out after 2 years. Or he can go someplace else as long as we get a good trade package. What I wouldn't do is pay him 35+ or let him go for a 3rd. I do prefer giving him options and sticking to it, this is what were willing to pay or you get tagged or you can be traded but here it is.

Tagged he has degree of control of any trade. The tag doesn’t give him long term security, but it doesn’t give the Cowboys cap flexibility. If the Cowboys can sign the players they need to improve with 9% of the 2026 salary cap devoted to George Pickens then by all means tag him.

I don’t believe there is a team out there that thinks Pickens at $30+ million per year for the next three four years is a better VALUE than the wide receiver they can draft in the first round in April. And Pickens (Mulugheta) is not going to sign that tag unless he is getting the money he wants. Dallas can’t trade him until he signs the tag.

Jerry will mess around with Pickens, April will come and go, so now it’s about the 2027 draft. If it gets to mid-July, still no deal or trade, and George Pickens cannot be traded and he cannot sign a deal with the Cowboys. This is not how a team trying to build a winner goes about things. Pickens will play for Dallas, be in poor humor all season long, and lord forbid he suffers even a tiny injury, because that $28+ million tag salary is an absolute guarantee.

Tag him. See what happens. No team is stupid enough to trade significant draft capital for George Pickens. Not with the receivers available in this draft. George is in a good place.

 

[charron]

Tagged he has degree of control of any trade. The tag doesn’t give him long term security, but it doesn’t give the Cowboys cap flexibility. If the Cowboys can sign the players they need to improve with 9% of the 2026 salary cap devoted to George Pickens then by all means tag him.

I don’t believe there is a team out there that thinks Pickens at $30+ million per year for the next three four years is a better VALUE than the wide receiver they can draft in the first round in April. And Pickens (Mulugheta) is not going to sign that tag unless he is getting the money he wants. Dallas can’t trade him until he signs the tag.

Jerry will mess around with Pickens, April will come and go, so now it’s about the 2027 draft. If it gets to mid-July, still no deal or trade, and George Pickens cannot be traded and he cannot sign a deal with the Cowboys. This is not how a team trying to build a winner goes about things. Pickens will play for Dallas, be in poor humor all season long, and lord forbid he suffers even a tiny injury, because that $28+ million tag salary is an absolute guarantee.

Tag him. See what happens. No team is stupid enough to trade significant draft capital for George Pickens. Not with the receivers available in this draft. George is in a good place.

And that's why you allow mulagheta to seek a trade within parameters. I like giving a player options. Give him 3 and let him decide what's best for him and his market. If his agent can't find a trade partner that'll give us a 1st and 3rd or better then the cowboys deal looks better and if a team is willing to trade for him. And give him a max deal then cool I'll take the picks.

 

[KingCorcoran]

And that's why you allow mulagheta to seek a trade within parameters. I like giving a player options. Give him 3 and let him decide what's best for him and his market. If his agent can't find a trade partner that'll give us a 1st and 3rd or better then the cowboys deal looks better and if a team is willing to trade for him. And give him a max deal then cool I'll take the picks.

Yes. I can see the Cowboys telling Mulugheta “go find a deal, let us know”. Jerry wouldn’t even negotiate with Mulugheta directly in regard to Parsons, but he’s going to hand over that degree of control to him.

Jerry does the telling when it comes to the Cowboys, not the listening. And he doesn’t want to wait on, of all people, David Mulugheta to tell him what’s going on. Give it up. It’s an expensive tag or an expensive contract. It won’t be a deal that includes a first round draft pick unless the Cowboys are sending a first along with Pickens.

 

[conner01]

Talking about our own players ! Really you don’t think I know that !

I understand they are talking to Williams, Pickens is really the only other guy you need to worry about. I suspect he’s tagged since I don’t think you can get a deal done with him before he becomes a FA. His deal is gonna be complicated

 

[charron]

Yes. I can see the Cowboys telling Mulugheta “go find a deal, let us know”. Jerry wouldn’t even negotiate with Mulugheta directly in regard to Parsons, but he’s going to hand over that degree of control to him.

Jerry does the telling when it comes to the Cowboys, not the listening. And he doesn’t want to wait on, of all people, David Mulugheta to tell him what’s going on. Give it up. It’s an expensive tag or an expensive contract. It won’t be a deal that includes a first round draft pick unless the Cowboys are sending a first along with Pickens.

I was only suggesting what i'd do and what I think they do. Jerry will cave like always until he proves otherwise which I disagree with.

 

[ConstantReboot]

Our players or other FA's? If it's other FA's then the answer is HELL NO.

All FA's signed the first couple of days are so overpaid it's not ridiculous it's stupid.

Why not? We’ve signed our own players to big contracts, many of whom I feel are overpriced—Osa, Bland, and Ferguson, just to name a few.

 

[ConstantReboot]

I understand they are talking to Williams, Pickens is really the only other guy you need to worry about. I suspect he’s tagged since I don’t think you can get a deal done with him before he becomes a FA. His deal is gonna be complicated

It should not be complicated at all. They can sign him now for around $31–33 million or franchise-tag him and see his price rise to $36–39 million next year.

 

[Flamma]

Tag him. See what happens. No team is stupid enough to trade significant draft capital for George Pickens. Not with the receivers available in this draft. George is in a good place.

The Eagles got AJ Brown that way. The Titans got a first for him and figured they could replace him in the draft. I think that got their GM fired.

 

[Flamma]

And that's why you allow mulagheta to seek a trade within parameters. I like giving a player options. Give him 3 and let him decide what's best for him and his market. If his agent can't find a trade partner that'll give us a 1st and 3rd or better then the cowboys deal looks better and if a team is willing to trade for him. And give him a max deal then cool I'll take the picks.

There's not really a right or wrong thing to do. It all depends on what the Cowboys want to accomplish in the near future. If the Cowboys want to be contenders now, then you can't trade your best players for picks. They already traded Parsons, now Pickens? It is starting to look like a rebuild.

 

[Whyjerry]

Can the Jones please get players signed quickly and not draw it out ! Just one year with quick signings, PLEASE !

Ummmmmm. Not going to happen.

 

[plasticman]

I think we are skipping a critical step here.

Before they start signing players early, the need to improve their evaluative skills when it comes to determining a player's success.

What was most responsible for Bland's awesome 2023 season? How did he go from rookie 5th round pick to 1st team All-Pro in one season?

Was his success influenced at all by the fact that the Cowboys had an elite pass rusher in Parsons? What about the fact that the other side of the field was being manned, at the time by another 1st team All-Pro, Trevon Diggs.

Perhaps the opponent QBs felt too much pressure from the fact that they were typically behind going into the 2nd half.

In any case, Blands success was heavily influenced by these circumstances. Otherwise, 32 teams misevaluated an elite player for the first four rounds of that draft. I find that difficult to believe.

This is just one example of poor evaluation skills by Cowboys management. Some of the wrong people ended up getting paid when they were just at the right place at the right time.

 

[Jarntt]

They heard you!!! They really really heard you!!!