that they know how to draft their favors. Amazing. They,
they find guys that others have passed over, they turn them
into star players. And now a guy whose name continues to
resonate from Latrobe, where it's all about team
and they try to Tamp down the hype on any specific guy.
It's impossible to slow down the hype train on George
Pickens, who is now actually
the betting favorite to be offensive. Rookie of the Year.
I'm not sure I'd make that bet but that's how How far the hype
has gotten out of control. Here's deante, Johnson.
One of the other receivers that the team has found in
the draft. Talking about the new arrival
has anything George do surprise, you guys anymore,
he's a freak.
This is Young.
Certain stuff. And if you guys questions, I'm always there.
I might say he's a freak of nature. How much do you think
having him is going to help you guys as a whole
isn't
big but
they're not going to
cover everyone.
That way everyone that
it's always going to be a one-on-one matchup. It's up to
the defense really going to cover
budget.
You know,
I think about the industry, think about the sport, how
competitive it is. You've got a guy who's a receiver who just
got his contract and I need other receivers all want to
view themselves as the guy right to hear that kind of
Praise. Yah heaped on a
guy who just showed up shows you it's undeniable. Right. It
you know it's kind of like the way they reacted Minnesota to
Randy Moss. Like Chris Carter wasn't threatened by him. He
knew this guy's special. Yeah. Right in the moment he first
saw him play. He knows how specially is so
You've got deante Johnson completely and totally in awe
of this guy. I'd like to know what Chase Claypool, thanks
because Claypool hasn't gotten paid, yet, maybe it's easier
for Johnson to be secure in his praise, right, of a team mate
because he knows
he's getting
36 million on his two-year extension, but
that's the problem though. That's why I wouldn't take
the BET of offensive Rookie of the Year for George Pickett. You
still only have one football. You got Nagi Harris,
you got deante Johnson. You got Chase. Claypool when you got
George Pickens. I don't know how much of an impact picking?
Is going to have, well, it gives them a lot of Versatility
and, you know, Mike to what you said you were. Yeah, I think
you're right, you know, first off, it makes it easier for
deante Johnson when you are paid. Hey, that I'm established
here. I'm the guy, they like me
to give me that type of money,
but but also, it'll I think it is the NFL players as a whole
or not haters that way,
like you said, they recognize talent. And I think they also
look at it through like, you know, a glass-half-full kind of
mentality where like we this this could help me out. It's
gonna make life on in for me
easier and I think where I look at him with deante Johnson,
especially and we're just looking to the offense and, you
know, something that you've been, you know, pounding
the table with all offseason is. Don't you know, don't forget
about these damn Steelers. These are the
years they surprise people. And man, they got a lot of things
to like about their team in their roster and then now you
add a George Pickens with a Claypool and now that allows
the ante Johnson to be a guy that can move to the slide.
Lot and do some of that in there because he's a great
route. Runner, he's the best route. Runner, they got on
their football team so I think it gives them the versatility
that way to now go.
Whoa. We got, you know, three big-time matchups where,
you know, maybe if George Pickens doesn't come along,
it's got to be deante Johnson, outside and Claypool outside.
And then Gunner olszewski who's, you know, showed look
good the other night too, maybe he's got to work the slot
and nothing against him,
but he ain't deante Johnson.
So I just think it's going to make their Sense that much more
explosive, let alone, Mike Talman of them want to run
the football and do that to where it's almost like you look at it
like the
the Philadelphia Eagles where you just go. Whoa.
If they can run the ball and Nagi Harris and kind of Pound
The Rock that way,
it's going to be hard to match up across the board against
those three guys, one on one and it can make mature Biscay
or Kenny Pickett, whoever starting there. And Pittsburgh
look very good.