Steelers4Life
Footballguy
I understand 100% why Eagles fans want to be optimistic about Pickett. But if you haven't spent the last 2 to 3 years watching him, it's easy to blame Matt Canada. Fact is, Pickett himself was as much to blame as Canada was and it downright painful to watch. He's the exact opposite of someone Id want my team to roster as a backup... huge ego without the skill to back it up.
Awful vision, constantly missing wide open receivers and throwing to the wrong guy. Mossing wide open guys, which was even worse when the route trees weren't complicated. He only had 1 good college season... as a 5th year senior vs ACC competition, throwing around 30% of his yards and 40% of his TDs to the best WR in the country who was always open. He won't ever have that luxury in the NFL. Im a Pitt grad and fan, but Pickett was ridiculously fortunate to be in that situation that year.
Yes, Pickett threw for 278 yards in his first start after Canada was fired, which unfortunately was a huge step up. In that game vs the Bengals, the Steelers couldn't finish drives and they scored 16 points. A couple weeks later, Rudolph faced those same Bengals and put up 290 and 2 TDs with the team scoring 34. There are reasons for that.
Im thankful that the Steelers got anything of value for him, and Im even more thankful that I dont have to watch him anymore. He'll need to develop a lot to become a viable backup.
Awful vision, constantly missing wide open receivers and throwing to the wrong guy. Mossing wide open guys, which was even worse when the route trees weren't complicated. He only had 1 good college season... as a 5th year senior vs ACC competition, throwing around 30% of his yards and 40% of his TDs to the best WR in the country who was always open. He won't ever have that luxury in the NFL. Im a Pitt grad and fan, but Pickett was ridiculously fortunate to be in that situation that year.
Yes, Pickett threw for 278 yards in his first start after Canada was fired, which unfortunately was a huge step up. In that game vs the Bengals, the Steelers couldn't finish drives and they scored 16 points. A couple weeks later, Rudolph faced those same Bengals and put up 290 and 2 TDs with the team scoring 34. There are reasons for that.
Im thankful that the Steelers got anything of value for him, and Im even more thankful that I dont have to watch him anymore. He'll need to develop a lot to become a viable backup.