No holdout for George Pickens<\/p>\n
While the writing was certainly on the wall that George Pickens did not plan to hold out, we still needed confirmation after he didn\u2019t attend the voluntary portion of the offseason program.<\/p>\n
Not only did Pickens show up to minicamp, he also\u00a0flat-out said he was not going to hold out<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cUh, no, I\u2019m definitely here now,\u201d Pickens confirmed. \u201cLike I said, the group of guys that\u2019s with the Cowboys kind of prevents you [from holding out]. If you know guys, and are going to guys\u2019 house[s], you\u2019re talking. I talk to Dak [Prescott]. I\u2019m still throwing with Dak. He\u2019s definitely gonna make you not want to hold out.\u201d<\/p>\n There were multiple avenues this situation could have gone down after Dallas slapped the tag on Pickens and told him\u00a0he would not get a long-term deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pickens not pushing back was one of the best possible ones for the Cowboys. Trading him off the tag would have been the another.<\/p>\n Not much of a left tackle competition<\/p>\n Head coach Brian Schottenheimer said at OTAs that there would be a\u00a0competition at left tackle<\/a>\u00a0between Tyler Guyton and Nate Thomas, and Cowboys fans were happy to hear that because Guyton had struggled over two seasons.<\/p>\n However, after minicamp we discovered that Guyton has been seeing all of the first-team reps at left tackle, which paints the picture that the left tackle battle\u00a0isn\u2019t much of a battle at all<\/a>.<\/p>\n