OT: The Pittsburgher Thread: Oh no! They are 3 and 1. Panic!

[Night Shift]

I thought we had the khan artist now as gm

He follows you around. Why u think he can't talk most of the time, like that tweet today.

You're his baby sitter, remember?

 

[JTG]

Kozora highlighted a few cases where you know, maybe Pickens is slowing down to fool the DB.

But even with those considered, he's being lazy. He's lazy when he's not going to get targeted, he's lazy blocking, and there's a few cases where you can definitely highlight him not being 100% on routes where he can be targeted. The big one for me is route where he's going from one side of the field to the other, where he'd probably not get the ball but he could really help the QB in a slow developing situation if he makes it. The one where he just walks off the line of scrimmage, that route. Penultimate play of the game where Fields targets him anyway but Pickens is nowhere near where he has to be, that route.

I'm asking this to everyone - right now, would you pay Pickens this summer?

I'm a no. He is so gifted and so good when he wants to be but he's not so gifted that he's irreplaceable and he goes haywire too often for me to want to pay him even before we consider him as a leader, the locker room, and the rest of it. As a third year pro, the odds of fixing it are slim and mostly hinge on him wanting to be fixed and, let's be honest, he mostly looks like he'd rather be somewhere else.

The PIckens we are seeing now is the Diontae we have seen the last 2 seasons. Pickens was given the script and he is now doing it.

I think Pickens is a total stud, but he's coming up on a contract year and this offense is really f***ing with his money.

So the Steelers again are going to have Harris and 2 practice squad guys for RBs. Then they have a unhappy #1 WR and some other guys.
Sunday is going to be fun


We are due for a Tomlin special

This team may be in a situation at the end of the year where they have a QB, Oline, and defense, but they have a losing record. It absolutely looks feasible right now.

 

[JTG]

I'm honestly starting to wonder if they try trading Pickens and Jones at the draft. I think they are handling Jones all wrong, but if he has shown some jagoff tendencies and it may come with being a UGA guy.

 

[Buddy Bizarre]

NFL exec: Arrests down 'by half' since Rice case

The NFL says player arrests have dropped since 2014, when the Ray Rice case forced a toughening of policies around domestic violence, but the number of players accused in domestic violence cases has fluctuated.

www.espn.com

 

[bigdaddyk88]

 

[wheelz87]

It seems the PR machine is picking up steam.
First stories about effort, then tantrums. Now on behindthesteelcurtain.com, they're saying he's been late for "work" several times. Maybe there's something to that chick that sais keep an eye on Pickens on her Twitter account.

Nothing PR about his effort or tantrums. They are free for everyone to see weekly.

 

[MrBrightside]

Awesome to have a head coach and OC that base their entire game plan on both sides of the ball around a strong running game despite having mediocre at best running backs and a young patchwork offensive line. But Tomlin and Smith aren't changing, by God.

 

[Peat]

The PIckens we are seeing now is the Diontae we have seen the last 2 seasons. Pickens was given the script and he is now doing it.

I think Pickens is a total stud, but he's coming up on a contract year and this offense is really f***ing with his money.

This is technically a contract year. He can get his contract this summer after all.

I also think he's f***ing with his own money more than the Steelers are at this point. He's got more than enough targets to put up a big year with. Maybe not the year he'd want, but good enough. He's killed a few of his biggest plays through his own mistakes. Now he's getting routes taken away because he's lazy. People say "oh it's only the heavy packages", but they passed on half of those. Pickens ran 20 routes on 30 Fields' dropbacks. I think he missed more route opportunities in that Cowboys game than he had in the other four put together.

He's got the opportunity and if he doesn't see that, it's just another example of how his brain is always going to be a huge challenge for Tomlin to manage.

 

[Buddy Bizarre]

Hopefully this picks up more momentum with the national media

https://x.com/i/web/status/1844061769620390136

 

[Goalie_Bob]

Hopefully this picks up more momentum with the national media

https://x.com/i/web/status/1844061769620390136

It's what we all have been saying for years. Glad the "national" media is starting to point it out but this group of dudes is really not the national media.

What we need is the guys on the pregame shows to start to bring this up and the broadcast crews. The whole NHALS nonsense is nauseating for us local people that know it means nothing but mediocrity.