I might get downvoted for saying this, but honestly Kenny is just not impressing me at all. He looks like an average NFL Backup QB. Now I know with a different OC he may play different and play up to his potential, but what if he’s already reached his ceiling? I’ve supported Kenny since he was drafted, but mediocre and subpar performances in games like these make it really hard to continue to support him. I really hope I’m wrong and he does turn out to the longtime franchise Quarterback, but sadly it’s looking like he is destined to be a backup. Also Matt Canada sucks.

  • TheTelekineticBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Kenny isn’t impressing anyone. He might not be a starting QB. Devito had a better game yesterday than Kenny ever has, and the Giants offensive line is worse than the Steelers. The team is in a bad place right now, because there are multiple things that need to be figured out, and they all kind of conflict.

    1. We all know it isn’t all Kenny. He sucks under Canada, but so did Trubisky, and so did Ben. Yeah, Ben was a shell and Trubisky is a career backup, but they all suspiciously sucked in nearly the exact same way. The offense looks SO similar under all 3 of them. I want to give Kenny another season, with a real OC who has a goddamn brain and see what he’s made of, and I do NOT want to see them promote Mike Sullivan. That’s asking for more of the same.
    2. Did Kenny have potential, and he’s been ruined already? Can he be brought back and fixed? Who the hell knows, but it feels like the Steelers have a weak spot for QB development. It always feels like another team’s backup and come in at half or make a start and at very least tread water. Over the last however many years, it seems like a Steelers backup coming into the game is a death sentence. Fields, Dobbs, Rudolph, Duck, and now Trubisky. As yeah, as fun as the whole Duck thing was at the time, he sucked too.
    3. This QB class next year has several talented QBs in it. Should the Steelers bite the bullet and draft someone, or try to fix Kenny and ride out his rookie deal and make the best of it? They aren’t in a position right now to draft high, so you’d probably have to trade up to get one of the better ones. But even if they do, are they going to develop him or just let him loose to figure it out and fail? I can sit here and say I would kill to have CJ Stroud right now, but would CJ Stroud just be sucking as much as everyone else in this god awful scheme does?

    You can watch great players succeed on trash teams. Devante Adams is always open. Derrick Henry and Saquon Barkley are top 10 in rushing yards. George Pickens leads the team in receiving yards, and is 27th in the league, behind a lot of guys with much less talent than him, on teams with worse records.

    It seems that one player carries the offense for a 2-3 game stretch. GP did it a couple games, Dionate did it, Warren is currently doing it. But you can’t tell me that an offense with Diontae Johnson, George Pickens, Calvin Austin, Pat Friermuth, Najee Harris, and Jaylen Warren is hovering around the worst offense in NFL history, all because Kenny Pickett sucks. That’s just unrealistic that he is THAT bad. The entire offense is poorly developed, coached, schemed, and called, and that shit needs to get fixed, or else no QB is going to have a chance to succeed.