come down to this work.
This work is weighted differently, inappropriately. So
the in stadium work is significant in increasingly
sold. Two more Stadium. Exposure, you get, and so make
no mistake. This is a significant game for a lot of
people. One of those positions that comes down to this week,
the starting quarterback job. Yes.
Oh yes, Mitchell, true bisque. He's job to lose and he still
may lose it to Kenny pick at the 20th, overall pick in
the draft.
To look when they installed picket at number three on
the depth chart, I was reminded of Ryan Tannehill
10 years ago in Miami. He was number three on the depth chart
when training camp began and by the time the regular season
started he was number one, you don't want to create
the impression that the new guy is having anything handed to him.
That's not a small hands joke.
Although now it is
you don't want to
alienate people in the locker room
who may think that The guy who's there? Mitchell? True
Biscay is better.
You want to let the guy earn it and maybe he will. Maybe he is,
if he out plays Mitchell, true Biscay
on
Saturday. I think the game is lions at Steelers,
who knows. Then they have two weeks, I think it's Sunday,
then they have exactly two weeks to figure out who
the starting quarterback will be for the trip to Cincinnati. So
I thought it was definitely going to be true Biscay and
Chris Sims makes the point miles that.
You know, you got some tough opponents. Right? Out of
the gates. Got some pretty good defense has. Do you really want
Oh Kenny, pick it to the Wolves. But you know what
the steel is attitude is our best guys are going to play and if
Pickett's their best option, if that's what my Tom and
believes,
he's going to play him.
Absolutely, he will. And look,
there are probably very few coaches that I would trust to
make any decision when it comes to their football team more
than Mike. Tomlin, you know, I mean that list is very, very
short. Maybe like two to three coaches
but I think when you're talking about a quarterback
competition, it's not necessarily something. He's had
to go through. And so now, when we've seen Mitchell trueba ski
a little bit, we've seen, can you pick it a little bit?
I don't think
any of us. Anticipated that Mason Rudolph will be a
Part of this competition, it doesn't necessarily appear like
he is,
I think, Kenny pickets done some good things out there in
these preseason games that we've been able to see really
love putting too much stock into preseason games. But one
of the things that Mike Tomlin was talking about even before
last week's
game was seeing alive pass rush and how that can affect things
for Kenny Pickett and how he wanted to get a moral quote
Varsity action and I think pick it did a good job of showing
that he can handle some of those.
Those things. There's a play that I assume we're going to
see at some point where he had a guy come right at you. Right.
There is guy right in his face and boom. He throws it down
the field to Pat fire booth and I love Pat Prime, if I think he's
going to be
one of these emerging tight ends will continue to talk
about. But when you see Pickett able to do that handle the pass
rush and yet still deliver that accurate ball. That's got to
say to Mike Tomlin and Matt Canada. Their offensive
coordinator. Hey man, I think
he might be able to handle this if we really Give it to him.
Processing information quickly making decisions
authoritatively getting rid of the football look Ben
Roethlisberger. Made a career out of bailing out of
the pocket and running left and right and it worked for him
but I suspect the Steelers, find it refreshing.
If they could have fallen to their laps
a guy who can make his reads and get rid of the ball without
giving everyone a heart attack
as he decides to rumble left Rumble, right? And maybe
Get injured, maybe throw a completion. Maybe do God knows what
when you have somebody who's going to run the offense,
the way that it's drawn up
and stand in there and not
not try to get out of the way of a hit, go ahead and maybe
take a hit from time to time now. Look, you don't want your
quarterbacks to get hit because the more they get hit, the more
they get hurt
but that would help pick it. And
I've heard Tomlin say things recently that hearkened back to
some of the things he said earlier, as to what he was
looking for. Um Pickett and pick. It is just checking off
those boxes of the Mike Tomlin cliches
and I think at the end of the day,
it all comes down to what Pickett does this weekend.
But based on what we've seen, there's no reason to think that
all of a sudden, he's just going to not be the guy that
he's on track to be
and it won't surprise me if he ends up being the weak one
starter when the Steelers go to Cincinnati. And as a result of
all of that,
the Pensive Rookie of the Year odds are fascinating to me
because George Pickens has become the darling of Steelers
camp. And as I've said before, it's impossible for anyone to
really stand out and Steelers Camp because it's the epitome
of Team,
not me. But Pickens is still
found a way to bust out of that st. Vincent's in st. In Latrobe
PA bubble butt right now. Pickens has gone from
a 50 to One. Long Shot to be the offensive rookie of the year.
He's now eight and a half to one
ahead of Pickett who was 5 to
In in his down to nine to one.
I think if it's that close, I think if the performance
actually would put both guys in the running, the quarterback
probably gets it because he's going to be throwing the ball
to other people than George pickets
and and these are the reasons why you never see. A receiver
is the league MVP. It's always the quarterback who's serving
it up for him. So I think that right now pick up to me, would
be the better bet than Pickens miles.
Well, I think one of the things that we don't talk about enough
with the Steelers is just how good that Lament of weapons is
and we're talking about George Pickens, but they also have
deante Johnson.
Chase Claypool fire moved while I was talking about earlier
Nagi Harris, like if you're going to insert a rookie
quarterback into any situation and not offensive line,
notwithstanding,
this is a really good complement of weapons for
somebody to have, if you're gonna come in there and be
a rookie quarterback and presumably have some sort of
training wheels on
and try to win games.
Alms. But you know, if you're throwing to George pickets to
I mean my gosh, that dude is really impressive. The body
control that he has mean the sideline catch their you had
that in zone catch that he had against the Seahawks like there
are
some really impressive things that he has done. And so if he
has that chemistry and he's been establishing with picot
already like yo, they could be really dangerous Duo.