by Yes, I am throwing in the towel on the Kenny Pickett experience. It was a cool story, having a Heisman finalist playing his college ball in the same facility and same stadium come to the professional team next door. The Pitt fans were ecstatic, and I believe will never be able to overcome their bias of the superstar college QB when evaluating his play for the Steelers. I believe all Steelers fans were under that notion at the beginning of the season. The scape goat all year has been offensive coordinator Matt Canada, who is a bottom 3 coordinator in the sport, but has been calling better games as of late. The bottom line is that the eye test should show you that Kenny Pickett is not a guy that you are going to win a Super Bowl with under this coaching staff. By that I mean sure throw him in a Mike McDaniel or a Kyle Shannahan system and I am sure that they will max out his talent. These are the best guys at their job, and the Steelers under Mike Tomlin are a very defensive-oriented team with no history of having any evolutionary play caller being hired by Tomlin himself. Not only are the obvious accurate issues with Pickett, shown on this 3rd down play against Tennessee last Thursday night, but there is no and has not been a trait that Kenny has that is elite.
These are throws that a Division 2 QB is EXPECTED to make. I know the devils advocate will ask about his 4th quarter numbers. Yes, they have been ELITE, but that is only when the team is in a close game and can hang on. If they are down more than two scores in the fourth, game OVER. Anyway, enough about the poor QB play and let me present to you my solution for this team (which is in its championship window)…. COD BOY KYLER MURRAY!
Yes, the man who has a clause in the contract that says he has to study a certain amount of times each week. Also, he is coming off of an ACL injury, but the Heisman trophy winner and former number 1 overall pick would be a GAME CHANGER with this roster. He is dynamic on the ground as shown yesterday in the Cardinals game winning drive against the Falcons. The arm talent has also been great pretty much his whole football career. He throws a great deep ball and I think the offense could get a ton of production from the young, talented wide receiver George Pickens. The money would be tight, but the NFL teams always seem to figure out how to make it work financially.
Now the big question is… what is the price to trade for Kyler Murray? I think that if I am Pittsburgh, I would give up a first round pick and up to multiple day 3 picks. Due to the contract and the injury history, I do not think that Arizona would be getting the trades for QBs that have occurred in recent years. Pittsburgh, go get this playmaker! The defense can win a championship and Kyler can create on offense in multiple ways.