Jon Machota on how the George PIckens trade came together

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The Cowboys have their new WR2 in George Pickens, having traded 2026 3rd and 5th round picks for the mercurial wideout this morning. Jon Machota from The Athletic joined the K&C Masterpiece today to break down how this trade came together and what's next for the team.

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00:00in terms of the deal this morning can you walk us through the timeline because

00:20we've heard a lot that perhaps this deal was percolating before the draft maybe during the

00:24draft is that also what you find to be the case and how did it finally come together

00:29yeah that's the way i understand it and it's interesting because i just go back to that

00:35tuesday pre-draft press conference where when it ended you know there's a group of us around jerry

00:40and he kind of threw in there that you know there was two substantive moves that they could

00:45potentially make it could be before the draft it could be after the draft i will say when he said

00:51that george pickens is one of the first people i thought of but i thought of it to myself and that

00:56yeah but they won't do that it'll be something more in the lines of like what they've done for

01:00mingo or maybe maybe even brandon cooks or like joe mix and those type of deals

01:06uh that you know they're i get why they do them to a certain extent but it's not like it really

01:11moves the needle like a pickens type move would move the needle and so i was like yeah i think

01:16jerry might just be saying that to just kind of stir things up because let's be honest the last two

01:20years there really haven't been any notable moves like that so um as time went on and then obviously

01:27you get to that first round the draft and i know that they love tat mcmillan and then when he goes

01:31eight you know that's the thing that people talk about the cowboys needing a wide receiver well they

01:35didn't really need a wide receiver they needed specifically a wide receiver too yeah and so when

01:39they didn't get that early in the draft i was like it didn't make any sense to use like a mid or late

01:43round pick and a wide receiver they have plenty of those guys already on the roster and so now i'm

01:49thinking okay well they'll do something but i could see it being one of those things where you

01:53know following the cowboys the way that they've been doing business that it'll be like a training

01:56camp you know or or you know a team's like hey we're willing to part with this receiver we don't

02:01know if he's going to make a roster and it would be like fine but it again it'd be somebody more

02:05similar to mingo or tolbert as opposed to a george pickens move and so um they had been working on it

02:11and then obviously it came together sound like it was starting to come together last night

02:14and then early this morning it got finalized um and i'm honestly very surprised

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