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George Pickens will have all eyes and ears on him once contract talk begins with Jerry Jones.
With Mulugheta well aware of how Jones operates, Pickens feels “super prepared” for contract talks with Jones.
“Super prepared,” Pickens said Thursday. “I definitely leave that type of stuff to my agent because I let them [Mulugheta and Jones] talk the deals, and all that stuff but definitely super prepared.”
Part of that preparation is also advice from Prescott, the Cowboys’ longest-tenured player who has come out on the other side of two contentious contract extension negotiations with a deal to remain in Dallas long-term both times. Even though the end result has been pretty for Prescott, he’s now the NFL’s highest-paid player in terms of average per year salary ($60 million) on his four-year, $240 million deal, he didn’t enjoy the process with Jones. One of the things Prescott did do was avoid getting into direct financial conversations with Jerry and Stephen Jones, opting to let Todd France, his agent, handle that end of the agreement.
“I’ll give it [my advice] to George. One, just don’t let it get personal. At the end of the day, this is business. Both sides are going to want negotiations,” Prescott said. “Honestly, mine and Jerry’s weren’t pretty at all right? I wasn’t talking to him for some time. I remember I went and signed and he told me that ‘when two sides are trying to agree, you’re not going to want to see each other’s differences. Or you can’t see each other’s differences.’ But the moment you get to a contract, you shake hands, and you got to let all that go. We did that, and so it’s the same mindset going into these things. Things are going to come up. Things aren’t going to sit right. You’re going to feel slighted when they give you a million or two less than whatever you said. It’s just the business: play the game, play it back, but don’t let it get personal.”
Pickens acknowledged he’s aware of how things went down with Parsons, which is one of the reasons why he isn’t looking to directly inject himself into his own contract talks with Jones. CBS Sports’ Joel Corry, a former agent himself, projects Pickens’ long-term deal to compare similarly to the four-year, $132 million extension wide receiver DK Metcalf signed with the Steelers this past offseason.
“Definitely two different positions I would say, but then again, Micah is Micah, and I’m me,” Pickens said. “Definitely just let them [Mulugheta and Jones] do their thing.”
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