Pickens over DK this week.

If we kept him and still got DK, he would still be playing with a better QB than last season and another good WR. Rodgers and DK aren't Dak and Lamb, but they are much better than what we had at the other WR starting spot and Wilson/Fields.

And who knows what the playbook would be if we had two real WRs? Smith did have a season in TEN where he had 2,000 yards between the WR1 and WR2. Would Pickens / DK / Rodgers really be any worse than Brown (1075 yards in 2020) / Davis (984 yards in 2020) / Tannehill (3,819 yards in 2020)?

 

Ya but we will still have a late first round pick. How much of a splash can we make in the second round and beyond. I mean I doubt there’s going to be a stud QB in the late first round. That said who knows!!!

 

No, I knew you meant there could be more behavior issues, too. I don't doubt it, but the Steelers weren't committed to him past this season if they kept him, anyway.

The Wilson thing is yet another reason that trading Pickens was stupid.

 

Wanting to make a splash because the draft is in Pittsburgh would be an even dumber reason to trade Pickens.

 

The 3rd round pick from the Pickens trade (probably somewhere around our pick in terms of number since the Boys are 5-5) isn't going to let us move up much in the 1st.

IMO, the benefit of having the 3rds is that we'll still have some picks to make (in front of the home crowd) after we trade this years 1st and 2nd (+ next year's 1st) to move up.

Even still, going up from the late teens to early 20s probably isn't going to net us an above average starter from this class IMO. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try. But it's a low probability result IMO.

 

I wouldn't be so sure of that given how things are trending. The remaining schedule is tough, and injuries are starting to pile up.

 

Just like it seemed like we were going to pick a QB come hell or high water as Colbert's going away present to the team. Which turned out like most of the other early picks at the end of his career.

 

Why are we trading up again? If we finish as bad as many of you seem to think we will, we're picking in the top12 picks. I don't want to draft one of the QBs that high. We stay put and draft another stud DL or OT with that pick. Maybe even an elite CB or FS.

 

That is true. I was thinking about that when I was typing the last post. This could very easily be the first losing season for Tomlin. I mean we are just not a good team and haven’t been since 2016. That team was stacked. That was the last time I remember thinking we had a chance at going to and winning the SB.

Rodgers actually hasn’t played as bad as I thought he would but he just doesn’t have anyone to throw the ball to. I guess we’ll see because we have a tough next two games. It will be just like I thought we will be playing Baltimore in two weeks for first place.

 

What some are not getting is he was worth a second.

 

What you aren't getting is no team was going to give up a second for Pickens because he's in the last year of his contract. Before the draft Dallas was only offering a 4th for Pickens the Steelers held out for a 3rd.

 

Nance/Romo get to see both play this weekend

I think I will wait on their input before I make a decision

That being said, I anticipate the Sunday broadcast will provide a good drinking game involving the 2 WR

SALUD

 

Ok, so leave him on the team and take the comp pick that would be almost the same.

It's a third round pick. Not a first round, where 15 is drastically different than 32 on the impact of a player.

 

We are 6-5

 

What a goofball

 

Pickens is at it again today against the Chiefs. Just insane that the Steelers traded away that talent.

 

@Brice @Mashburn @Formerscribe

I have no choice but to take the L for my comments about Pickens several weeks ago.

I still believes he would have been wasted in our conservative offense,I still have doubts about his attitude but I knew his talent was incredible, but it's extremely a bad look for the Steelers right now the way Pickens is performing. We've wasted that talent like crazy in the last three years. If that hadn't been the case, and Pickens had been used much better, it would have been possible to get at least a first-round pick for him if the Steelers would not been interessed to give him a big contract.

The last time the Steelers were in a mess like this were in the 1960s, before Noll was head coach, and Pickens must be happy to leave that mess!

 

Looks like Pickens is having a great time playing.. It was a bad decision trading him, But Tomlin makes alot of bad decisions

 

Looks like a kid having fun to me

 

Pickens would have 300yds rec
4 tds
Against our $160 million defense

 

Tomlin needs evaluated after giving up Pickens
Bet Pickens is ecstatic that he isn’t playing in Pittsburgh
Esp this being his contract year
No how
No way
Pickens puts these numbers up here
I eat crow
GP a head case
But Dallas knows how to handle the situation
Magic Mike is making quite of reputation of letting go of talent
No hostages
The standard is the standard
But but
We got DK
Another has been

 

Magic Mike