Can Kenny Pickett be the Steelers’ version of Mac Jones?
Yahoo Sports activities’ Charles Robinson and Frank Schwab talk about how Pittsburgh’s offense seems to be by means of two weeks of the preseason. There’s fairly a little bit of expertise on the skin, and within the backfield. Might their rookie QB comply with the identical script the Patriots’ sign caller did a season in the past? Hear the complete dialog on the You Pod to Win the Recreation podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you pay attention.
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CHARLES ROBINSON: I watched Pittsburgh within the preseason. I watched quite a lot of their first crew snaps, they usually did look good. Like, I am not going to lie, apart from the quarterback. And Pickett appeared respectable. Like, I am like, I do not assume you begin him. I believe perhaps you progress to him sooner than I might have thought, however he appeared respectable.
And it kills me as a result of, like, George Pickens, like, I am watching, and I am similar to, come on, man. I do know why Pickens went the place he went. I get all that. I question– , you query all that, however he goes the place he goes. After which– however then you definitely watch him on the sector, and you are like, [BLEEP]
FRANK SCHWAB: This man’s good. He seems to be like a prime 15 man, prime 10 man.
CHARLES ROBINSON: He does appear to be a prime 15 huge receiver within the draft.
FRANK SCHWAB: He seems to be actually good, and I hate to anoint guys within the preseason as a result of that does not all the time work out. However man, he seems to be like a dude.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Claypool seems to be good.
FRANK SCHWAB: Oh, yeah. Impulsively you could have Claypool, Diontae Johnson, Pickens, Freiermuth, who I believe is a very good participant, Najee Harris, who’s a primary spherical working again. I am not completely offered on him being an elite man, however he can deal with the load.
Impulsively you could have Mitchell Trubisky or Kenny Pickett or Mason Rudolph or Terry Bradshaw or Mark Malone, whoever. They do not have to be nice. They should get the ball to these guys. And I believe that they is perhaps able to that. I simply assume that–
CHARLES ROBINSON: So let me provide the comp, then. Let me provide the comp for Pittsburgh. What if Pickett simply performs the Mac Jones function this 12 months.
FRANK SCHWAB: Proper, proper, yeah.
CHARLES ROBINSON: What if he simply performs the Mac Jones function, and the remainder of the crew’s coached nicely sufficient, and the expertise’s adequate, they usually’re fairly good defensively. Impulsively, yeah– I imply, like, that was the factor. When Mac Jones performed the best way that he performed for the Patriots final 12 months, we have been like, wow they’re good. Like, he is adequate.
Every thing else goes to maintain them afloat. Like, yeah, you are in all probability going to go to the playoffs, and not– in all probability will not advance. I imply, they bought housed, however perhaps Pickett is that man who is available in, and you are like, he is precisely what they thought they have been getting. They’re 1,000% conversant in him as a result of he was in the identical constructing without end. And the offensive line, sure, that scares me.
FRANK SCHWAB: It is a little bit little bit of a–
CHARLES ROBINSON: It is horrific.
FRANK SCHWAB: There isn’t any doubt.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Oh, it is a horrible offensive line.
FRANK SCHWAB: Not good.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Yeah.
FRANK SCHWAB: However yeah, I imply Pittsburgh is one in all those– like I mentioned, Pittsburgh, Carolina. Detroit’s one other one I do know all people’s on that bandwagon. However groups actually like, perhaps I am just a bit too down on these groups as a result of they may find yourself being fairly darn good.
And once more, as to this AFC North that– look, I am excessive on the Ravens, however that does not imply I am proper. I favored the Colts final 12 months. They did not even make the playoffs. What if the Ravens are simply sort of, did take a step again to mediocrity, and the Bengals are simply sort of mediocre. And the Browns, who is aware of?
I believe all 4 of those groups within the AFC North are– they’ve quite a lot of query marks round them, and we’ll see. It is one in all extra fascinating divisions, in all probability second most behind the AFC West.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Yeah, the Watson suspension remixed issues. It actually did.
