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Does George Pickens move the needle for the Dallas Cowboys? | Inside Coverage

Jason Fitz, Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab break down WR George Pickens' fit with the Dallas Cowboys and whether the Cowboys can utilize Pickens' immense talent without letting the locker room noise become a problem.

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George Pickens to Dallas.

See, Rob, now Dallas gets a second wide receiver.

Pickens leaves Pittsburgh to become Dallas's other guy.

Is that moving the needle for you?

I, I don't think it moves the needle only from the standpoint that I, the talent to me moves the needle.

There's no question about that.

I I just don't, there's a reason why Pittsburgh moved off of George Pickens.

There's a reason why they thought about moving off of George Pickens for two offseasons in a row, and I think you, you put that in the mix with Dallas, where, I mean, not that there's not a focal point in Pittsburgh, but it is different in Dallas, like, especially if you produce or don't produce, especially if you say things in the locker room or don't say things in the locker room after games.

Um, I I just don't see, see how he's not a distraction in Dallas.

He was a distraction in Pittsburgh.

He was a problem inside Pittsburgh's building, right?

And there were issues between, um, George Pickens and his quarterbacks in Pittsburgh.

You're gonna tell me that he's gonna walk into Dallas and it's just gonna be perfect.

Um, so I, I, I think it moves the needle, but in the wrong direction.

I just don't see it.

Um, being this smooth sailing experience because it wasn't in Pittsburgh and Dallas is a much more, I, I think, intense spotlight and the, and the criticism and the microscope on how you play and what you do and what you say and did, you know, did you alligator arm this Ball or, you know, are you laying out for that one?

Um, you know, what was your, remember the whole CD Lamb?

Oh, look at his body language toward Dak.

What did he say to Dak?

We spent like a week trying to do lip reading to figure out what CD Lamb said to Dak Prescott at one point, um, last season and To me, this is way worse, and oh by the way, what's his chemistry like with CD Lamb?

It's not just that, it's his chemistry with the other wideouts in that room as well, and I, I don't even know if he and CD Lamb will work, you know, we, so I, I think it's, uh, it doesn't move the needle in terms of this just being uh an an automatic win for the Cowboys, and this puts them over the top.

I don't think so.

I, I, the one thing that eliminates a lot of the, the con the controversies and the distractions is production.

I think George Pickens is gonna be really, really good in Dallas.

I do, I think it moves the needle for them positively, like, and I get it.

George Pickens has been a problem his entire career.

I also, at some point, you have to have enough self-awareness or somebody in your ear to say, George, shut up for one year.

One year.

Just give me the quietest year of your life.

Don't rock any boats, don't have bad body language, go celebrate with your teammates when they score touchdowns, don't complain about the ball.

Don't get in fights with Dak Prescott's throwing a Hail Mary like he did for Russell Wilson last year in Cleveland.

Just one good year, and you're gonna get like $30 million a year, just one good year.

That's it.

That if his agent's not telling him that, and if George Picketts has to listen, that that's the whole thing.

George Pincus has to listen to this.

Because I do think he is set up so well to be productive in Dallas.

If you think about the way they tell his offense, uh, maybe, but at some point maybe it sinks in.

I, I, I get it.

This might not, he just might be that dude.

He might be that dude that's just never gonna grow up.

I get that, but the gamble's worth it, I think.

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