Pickens over DK this week.

The other thing is the truth is being shown the media has blown/made things up here.
- Pickens still had offense pass interference. To which the fans and media said was not his fault (but here they would have)
- Pickens fought with the eagles their first game. But cowgirl media said it showed passion. (While here there would have been a beat writer from the browns say it's stupid, and steeler fans take hold of it to agreeing...... that's hilarious to me that so many here believe and followed a browns beat writer on his report of Pickens vs Bengals scuffle).
- I saw Lamb look to give up on a play yesterday. And it's cause it looked like it was down, so why go hit someone to causing a late hit? But here if Pickens did that the media would have said he doesn't continue to play
- Pickens isn't good at blocking. Cowgirls don't put him in that situation. While here we did. And instead of the fans saying he's like how some TE are, they tried acting like all WR are great at blocking.
- only thing pickens has not continued to do is show up late. But again is stupid how fans here want to act like that was all 3 season of all games.
- we even had fans trying to make up stupid stories as Pickens was on the flight leaving here.

These fans don't realize DK does this stuff as well. There will be a day he shows it his butt. And hopefully the media has learned its lesson, on want to on a big rant to getting fans to hating on him and then watch Tomlin feel he has to let go of a player for pennies.

 

Still glad he's gone. Pickens will collapse in Dallas...it's a matter of when not if.

 

No narrative being pushed. It's actually delusional to think pickens was a nightmare problem.
- oh no, he didn't block. (Well does every WR? ... furthermore how many legit times did it happen. Oh just twice).
- oh no, he showed up late for the meeting..... get a life, it was one time in how many seasons here? How many times you show up late for work in your last 3 years?
- oh no he caused a shuffle with a Bengals corner that started the fight first. Oh no he grabbed a cowgirl by the mask at the end of the game (you know like jack Lambert did. Or like Tomlin did tripping up a player)..... y'all be acting like this team hasn't had stuff like that before. (And he did that in Georgia. So you knew what you were getting).
- oh no he caused offense pass interference. Again how many times? At least he's clutch, not a fumble machine, knows how to secure the ball.

I get your point if this was almost every game. But it wasn't. It was a couple times throughout the entire season.


The nfl made it a sissy league. But straight truth is, there's several steeler fans who are now a sissy. Y'all couldn't handle steel curtain days.

 

Nobody thinks they got rid of Pickens for no reason. Please stop whacking away at straw men and deal with the actual arguments that have been made here.

Pickens is outplaying Metcalf. That is inarguable among the sane. The Steelers would have been more pass-heavy if they had kept Pickens along with Metcalf, but given how well Rodgers is playing, I'm not sure that would have been a bad thing.

I understand why they traded him. He sometimes hurt the team with boneheaded, overly-aggressive play. My issue was with him taking plays off when he wasn't the primary target. That hurt the team, too. That said, it is fair to point out that his absence is hurting the 2025 Steelers, mostly because they failed to acquire a viable replacement. It is fair to point out areas in which he would be likely to succeed and Metcalf fails, especially his superior ability on 50/50 balls and his superior hands.

 

I never said it was about me. Who on this board has said they got rid of Pickens for no reason? Can you find even one post like that from anybody? I doubt it.

You're right. The Cowboys actually have other wide receivers to draw away some of the targets and Pickens has still been far better than Metcalf.

 

Not really arguing with you, but Pickens isn't really outplaying Metcalf. Metcalf is playing in a Steelers offense and Pickens is playing in a Cowboys offense. Difference is, to date, Metcalf isn't all over socials or acting a fool like Pickens was here because he wasn't getting the ball enough.

 

Pickens has the advantage of being in a better offense. He has the disadvantage of being the No. 2 receiver. I think that balances out enough for us to look at the actual numbers. Pickens has 36 receptions for 607 yards and six touchdowns. Metcalf has 22 receptions for 406 yards and four touchdowns.

 

Come on Blast. Why do you bother?

 

Please don't try to read my mind. You don't do it well.

Can you find even one post by anyone on this board saying the Steelers traded Pickens for no reason?

 

He is not saying they got rid of him for no reason. He is disagreeing with the reason and arguing that the issues with Pickens were blown out of proportion. There is a difference.

 

Steelers don’t run their offense in a way to need multiple DK/Pickens caliber WRs. That’s just fact. Having more than one DK/Pickens on the team is NOT what Steelers want.

they had the choice of keeping one of DK or Pickens in the off season, and they chose DK - it was absolutely the correct decision.

 

Pickens has played an extra game with CeeDee missing 3 games and Dak throwing 259 times compared to Rodgers 172 times. Not completely balanced, and players in the WR2 role aren't in that much of a disadvantage when you are in a passing offense with a stud WR1 on the other side. Look at JuJu a few years back.

 

We just saw what an offense can do with two elite receivers. That was a pretty damn good argument for it being stupid to pass on having that option. If you can't accommodate that, something is wrong with your coaching.

 

He wasn't relying on No. 1 to create opportunities for him. He played his best when Lamb was out.

 

yes, agreed. Something is massively wrong with the coaching, but that’s what the coaching wants. Coaching prefers a million TEs over having two good WRs and throwing it to the two WRs.

 

Earlier you said that being WR2 was a disadvantage. Now you are saying he was better when CD was out...not saying the latter is wrong, but it still goes back to the type of offense they are in and not that GP is superior to DK. You don't think DK would be a better statistical WR in Dallas?