available. Kenny. Pick it Mitchell true. Biscay. Those
are the two who are battling to start indications are true.
Biscay
is the guy who's number 14? Now, can he pick at
the rookies? Going to have to earn it and teams like to force
a young guy to earn it? It helps him build confidence and helps
the players get behind him. If he does indeed earn it. If it's
not a rig competition,
here is Kenny Pickett. From yesterday's OT, a session
talking about the quarterback competition. In Pittsburgh,
I don't know. I mean, we're all, we're all learning. I'm
learning. And I'm just kind of attacking each day. I think you
guys
make a bigger deal on the competition. The players do
because we're competing every single day. So I'm just excited
to be part of this team and compete thinking third-string
reps. I mean, I know right now obviously very early in
the competition. But how much does that
motivate them to want to work your way up the chart?
Yeah, man. I think I'm gonna walk in there. Be the one,
right? I mean, so it's kind of what I was expecting and come
in here and just just learned everything I could. This is
kind of how it goes and life in the game. So I'm excited to be
here.
What's it?
Hey, look, that's the right attitude. Not going to walk
through the doors. And number one guy. They can't hand it to
you. That builds resentment. You have to earn it. You have
to go out and show. You can do it. You have to go out on the
practice field and you have to,
you have to operate in a way that makes players say, oh,
yeah, he's the best option either now or later. Oh, yeah,
he's our guy. You put in the work. You stay late. You do all
the right things. You say all the right things. That's right.
Yeah. We are the or evasion down. Right? Exactly. Yeah,
you're the best option to Madrid Biscay and Mason
Rudolph. It's that simple. Is that simple? I mean you think
about like Mac Jones? It's kind of what he did last year,
it just that's what a
just everyday, work work. Oh, good. Practice. Good practice.
Good practice. Good practice. Oh, wait more work. He's here
late. Oh my gosh. He's invested. Oh, man, all
the sudden all these days. We add them up and
we're getting towards the end of training camp and it's like,
well, maybe the hell with Cam Newton. I think. Mac Jones is
close to ready. So that's the approach. He's got to have,
he's just got to keep knocking the days down, one by one. It's
a process.
And like you said, yeah, he's got to earn it pits, especially a
Pittsburgh Mike Tomlin everything, he preaches
competition, and, you know, all that intensity there. That's
for anything on that football field there in Pittsburgh. So
yeah, he's going to have to earn it. We know that
no. Yeah. And they'll start to,
you know, they'll groom some things around him and
get him some confidence, to get him going and get them into
this condo, you know, conversation as far as
the competition's, when they feel like he's probably mentally
ready, then they'll, then they'll start to make things
interesting. But yeah, for right now he's just got to buy
this time. It's early. He's learning how
to walk again. I'm sure he's swimming.
You're breaking the Huddle
right now and he can't even think about football. He's
going. Wait. What did I just say in the Huddle? All right.
This guy's over here. Wait. Okay,
blue, 45, wait, and what did I what was the play? I said in
the Huddle? Oh my gosh. That's right. All right. This guy's
running that this guy's running that set hut. I mean, that's
really what life is like as a rookie, your first few weeks
there you're playing quarterback and figuring out on
the
Fly.
We're familiar with, with the dynamic of getting the plank.
All right, I mean, they said, you know, I very, I want the,
I want the Browns meeting room, audio and video. We have
the Chris Simms. Jon Gruden
on field, audio and videos. I hope you don't lie, right?
Well, we do somewhere some hey if they're going to, if they're
going to play the Hail Mary video, anytime the topic
remotely comes up. I need to be ready to lay out and a given
moment so we can hear Jon Gruden chewing on. You
know, they like to thank you.
Program. They don't like you. So they have that stuff. Ready.
They like me. They wouldn't do that to me. They would never do
that. You better not do it. Courtney? Okay, do we have it?
Yeah. Well, I can't just tell me when to lay out.
So
look, true. Biscay has to wear not your Biscay pick. It has to
prove himself over true Biscay and and pick it.
He's not it's not like this is a can't-miss prospect. Number
one overall pick in the draft. I mean our situations where
the rookie walks through the door is the starter because
everybody knew he was going to be the guy. And that's it. And
there's no competition to be had been last year in New York,
sack Wilson.
There was no one else. Of course. It's a quill. Exactly.
He's the starter. We're getting him ready for week one.
Everybody knows it with the Steelers and there's a chance.
Pickets not ready. They have true Biscay under contract and
you know, people still think it's a big deal to True bisque.
He's got incentives and that's going to push them toward pick
it. They don't care about paying true Biscay some money
if he gives you extra million. When right I know a few extra
million. Nobody. Nobody cares, they're
not. Let that be the difference there as far as wins and
losses. No way. That's not that they're not going to Penny
Pincher
Penny pinch and that that department. But I think your
you know, your point about this is not a slam dunk. Number one
guy is is real and I think that's what makes it a little
bit more of a real competition.
Or maybe the politics of the situation aren't going to get
involved as much. And I think we had, hey, you said it right?
Trevor Lawrence Zach Wilson, Joe Borough the year before.
But again these were guys with
Like an aura and a way about them that make an organization.
Go. Hey, let's drop this guy in the top three because he's got
incredible confidence and people skills and all those.
And then skills that jump off the, the page or the film, when
you watch them, you know, and turn that stuff on and study
them. You know, Kenny Pickett. It's not quite that in my
opinion and that's where
yes, he will have to earn it
and it won't be easy, like, we discussed
because Mitchell. True Biscay
was one of those guys were talking about who was a top
three pick and again like we've discussed Who has some real
physical ability?
I mean, he really does. He's got a strong arm and he's
an incredible athlete. So it won't be easy for him to just do
this. And, and I think back to the things we've said, and
you've said here over the last few months,
Pittsburgh. I think they look at themselves. Like, like, we
talked about, with the Saints in the NFC, NFC to, where they
look at themselves to go. We're still pretty good. We're not
just going to play the rookie quarterback because he's
the 20th pick.
I think they look at it and go win. Our offense is about to
turn the corner here. And our defense, we know we're not far
off from being dominant. And for that reason, I think that's
another reason they don't just throw the rookie out there.
The last time they had a first-round quarterback. Ben
Roethlisberger picked 11th overall in 2004. He was not
the week. One starter was Tommy Maddox, Ben Roethlisberger,
didn't play until Maddox, got injured. So
we will see how it goes, but they will go with a guy that
they genuinely believe gives them the best chance to win.