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Pickens over DK this week.

Discussion in 'Steelers Talk' started by Mashburn, Sep 14, 2025.

  1. mac daddyo

    mac daddyo Well-Known Member

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  2. Blast Furnace

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  3. mac daddyo

    mac daddyo Well-Known Member

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    or pouting because your teammate is doing better than you. :cool:
     
  4. feltdeez

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    This happens a lot more than fans want to
    admit.

    Do we really believe Watt gives his all
    on every play?

    Is Rodgers giving his all every game? I doubt it, that Chargers game he looked
    like he wanted to be somewhere else.

    Not to defend Pickens but I think he is easy to blame when he has a bad game yet when we watch our players mail it in we usually blame Tomlin or Smith. Sure, we may rip AR or Watt but we don’t talk like its a serious issue like it is with Pickens.

    DL is another one. Dude doesn’t look like he is hustling half the time on these routes.
     
  5. Steel_Elvis

    Steel_Elvis Staff Member Mod Team

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    Seems like I missed an interesting game Thursday
     
  6. Blast Furnace

    Blast Furnace Staff Member Mod Team

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    I’ve never seen Watt take a play off.

    Theres a difference between not having the gas to go 100% every play and taking plays off like Pickens does.
     
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  7. santeesteel

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    Are you and Pickens related?
     
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  8. mikeyg

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    then he went off on Sherman

    he is a knucklehead, you have to know this......let's see how we does now that Dallas is out of it......

    he is a screwball, you saw this in Pittsburgh, did you not?

    DK has been a disappointment, no argument there.
     
  9. forgotten1

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    @Mashburn@Mashburn
    You know your boy no like
    LEACH WIERDO
    don't be one pal :smiley1:
     
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  10. Blast Furnace

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    I’m still trying to figure out what that meant :lolol:
     
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  11. Steelpens65

    Steelpens65 Well-Known Member

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    Mash
    Pickens will always be a loose cannon
    Ask Ga
    I’m sure if you dig deeper it goes all the way back to pee wee ball
    No doubt he has talent
    Eventually the side show antics will override the talent
    I wish him the best
     
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  12. feltdeez

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    I guarantee you have. People even spoke on his lack of hustle on back side last game. You can’t watch Watt go 6 games last year with zero stats and tell yourself it was all fatigue.

    I know it sounds crazy but WR’s get tired too. Fans like Watt so the plays he takes off we ignore for the most part.
     
  13. Mashburn

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    You want to talk pattern? Naw, you haters of Pickens said when we got DK how y'all didn't care what DK did. Well now you see DK doing stupid stuff, and y'all were crickets. Unsportsman, lack of want to stop interceptions, running wrong routes, etc.

    DK amount of crap for his career is much worse than pickens. Sure pickens had been fined more. But DK has done way more.

    So if you now want to swap gears, go bump my DK thread and say, well I was right. Until then, naw I'm not going to entertain how pickens did 8% of x, means it's full blown of x. It could easily be abnormal injury, and I pointed out my reasons.

    DK is on the crap list. Dude has had 6 games worse than what Pickens did. Only reason the media isn't all over it, is because Tomlin doesn't have a set of ***** to confront it, like the cowgirls coach does towards pickens.
     
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  14. Mashburn

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    You sure about that? Serious question, how does 1 game that sucked out of 12, mean it's actually bad behavior? That's only 8%.

    DK is the king with having 6 games that were less. last week he had unsportsman penalty after the play was over, that cost us 15 yards on the kickoff and he did less yards than what Pickens did.

    So is DK a headcase to you? If you're not aware just Google all the bone head stuff he's done with Seattle.
     
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  15. santeesteel

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    DK has been in the NFL longer. Don't worry, your boy will catch up!
     
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  16. Mashburn

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    Where did he complain saying that?

    Don't give me media opinions. I want to see your claim you just made.
     
  17. mac daddyo

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    I'm aware. It's more than one week out of 12 also. Did you not year about the Vegas game that he stayed out all night only to show up just before the game. He and lamb. They say them out the first series. That will show him. He did the last play at the beginning of the year at Dallas because he wasn't getting the ball. Sorry mash but this same stuff has been going on with this guy. The other players will get fed up with it after awhile.:cool:
     
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  18. mac daddyo

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    my eyes. When I watch him playing half assed because lamb is getting fed the ball. It happened here as well. :cool:
     
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  19. Steel_Elvis

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    I don’t understand dar-speak either.
     
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  20. Mashburn

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    DK has multiple unsportsman penalty.... you look away
    DK let's up when the ball is intercepted.... you look away
    Dk has more of a history.... you look away.

    And no telling what we don't know. Tomlin hides things that happen until he releases a player. Pickens should have been called out about the KC game showing up late, but Tomlin did nothing. So we didn't know. While cowgirls did, which made it public.

    If you're going to be fair, be fair. Because I don't see you bumping any threads saying, "you were right with DK history" or making a thread on it and his current issues.
     
  21. Mashburn

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    Got it, so a false accusation.
     
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  22. Mashburn

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    You're right, at the pace they're going. DK made never see a thousand plus season again while here.
     
  23. SGSteeler

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    Depends on what you consider "giving it your all". If it means that a player has to sprint down the field to try to catch someone from behind on every play (and comes nowhere close), then no player in the NFL gives their all on every play. If it means that they try their hardest to make an impact until they can no longer impact the play... then yes. I think Watt and Rodgers absolutely give every play the attention that it needs... If they didn't they wouldn't have achieved everything in their career that they have (both are HOF players). Players don't have to be playing recklessly to be trying hard on all the plays, and trying hard on every play isn't hard.

    It doesn't get brought up that these players are "mailing it in" on plays because nobody is going to question Watt's effort if he doesn't sprint full speed to try to tackle a WR screen that gets thrown to the opposite end of the field. There just aren't real examples of him ever in his career taking plays off.... Pickens gets called out for it because it has been a massive problem in his career. I remember watching QB evaluations on youtube from former QB's during the KFP era where they would be like "wow.... 14, you're a stud... what the hell was that? This guy puts routes like that on film every week. That's wild." He's consistently loafed routes when he isn't as involved as he wants to be, or if the QB is playing poorly, or he just isn't in the right mindset to compete. Its been who he has been the whole time. Pickens is undoubtedly a great player when he wants to be one, but these are the kind of things that teams have to weigh when deciding if he's worth the money they have to pay him to sign him long term. AB never took a route off. Ever. You can't have your top weapon picking and choosing when to play hard for you.

    People act like the Pickens trade was awful. Its not (even if I hated the return and would've preferred to just keep him in the final year then let him walk. I am glad we didn't sign him long term). If Pickens was on our team this year, he'd have the same stats as DK and we'd be talking about him crashing out and quitting on routes because he isn't getting the stats he wants. Heck, he's the second leading WR in the league this year and he's still under fire for a couple of crash outs, being benched for series in games for missing meetings, and quitting on his team with poor effort against the Lions. He wasn't hitting those stats with us this year, and because of that, he would've been an issue. He's someone that we never in a million years should have extended (we don't currently have the offense to keep him even semi-engaged), so trading him is fine enough (even if we got less value because of the guy that he is as a person). It looks bad because we have no other weapons and he would've helped us this year (we could have just tolerated him for another season and had a better offense), but I am 100% in support of having no desire to pay him long term. Some guys are just great players that aren't worth the headache. He's not the type of guy that is a part of a winning culture or locker room. We have more issues (and are more than just a single WR away from being competitive for a title), and we have a ton of draft capital and potentially a ton of cap space available, to start re-building a winning team and winning culture.
     
  24. thorn058

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    Im as big of a supporter of Watt as it comes but I did witness him giving up on Sunday's game vs the Bills. He fought through the chip block and a normal block got almost to Allen before he took off running for the 1st down. Tj slowed to a jog at that point and didnt give chase. Was he tired and frustrated? Bet your ass he was but in years past he runs down those plays from behind and assists in the tackle. I wouldn't say this is a norm but he didnt go 100% at that point.

    Still never done what Pickens does when he isn't the focal point but if I'm being honest it does happen
     
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  25. forgotten1

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    Why does George feel like it had to be Misspelled and in capitals

    @Mashburn@Mashburn
    help us out
    he's from Ga you from Ga.

    Is it a flat earth thing?
     
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