While there have been no discussions of a new deal as of Monday<\/a>, the Cowboys have made it known they\u2019d like to keep Pickens in Dallas beyond the 2026 season. That doesn\u2019t mean the team won\u2019t use the franchise tag in the meantime to allow negotiations to extend past the start of free agency. But will the front office forego their usual approach of long-winded contract talks and get the deal done sooner? Dak Prescott sounds like he\u2019s willing to apply a little pressure if needed, telling Clarence Hill he would get involved if he needs to but has trust that things will get done.<\/p>\nIn the past, Prescott has usually kept to himself when it comes to other players and their money. However, Pickens played a vital role in the offense this year, leading to one of Prescott\u2019s best seasons as a pro. A player like that will earn the backing of the franchise quarterback.<\/p>\n
Prescott, who turns 33 years old in July, is closer to the end of his football career than the start of it. If he wants to win a Lombardi Trophy before his playing days are done, then the math is simple to him\u2014having Pickens on offense only makes the team better. Letting him walk or miss the entire offseason of workouts will only hurt the team. You don\u2019t have to go back far to see what gridlocked negotiations can do to a quarterback\u2019s chemistry with his wide receiver (2024).<\/p>\n
The Cowboys franchise star is willing to change his usual tune and become more vocal if he has to. The hope is he won\u2019t have to if the front office continues its course correction and gets a deal done with Pickens way before the start of offseason workouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a second consecutive losing season, the Dallas Cowboys have shown they are trying to do things differently.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,26780,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-150350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys-free-agency","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}