Hoge: Steelers still have a strong belief in Pickett

I’m thinking you might get sacked a lot

 

i might!

 

Hoge as HC

 

I think that goes for a good number of people around here.

 

This is what we are waiting for Pickett to do.

 

I’ve got a lot of confidence in Hoge’s ability to assess talent and I went back and listened to what he said. He didn’t exactly give Pickett a ringing endorsement and basically said that the Steelers weren’t ready to give up on him and still had a belief in him.

He was actually more complimentary of Mason saying that Kenny got an opportunity to see from Rudolph what quality quarterback play looked like. He was very complimentary of Kenny’s intangibles and leadership qualities. Finally he stated that this year will be huge for Kenny which we all already know.

I don’t think Hoge said anything I disagreed with, but he didn’t seem overwhelmingly convinced that Kenny was going to be able to be the guy. The Steelers are still hanging onto hope, as they should be at this point in Kenny’s career. 2024 is make or break time.

 

He’s not that far removed from the organization and the organization’s message at this point is that they still have confidence in Kenny but…this is a huge year and he’ll have competition. I’m sure there has to be some organizational concern about Kenny given his regression from year one to year two. Hopefully, he’ll turn it around in year three. Maybe Hoge is a true believer in Kenny, but I’m not sure, given the recency of his employment by the Steelers, that he was being totally candid in that interview. I thought he measured his words well.

 

I don't want to have another season wasted by terrible QB play, so it would be too risky to put all our hopes on Kenny in 2024

The only way I could live with that is if the Steelers start a true rebuild but I don't think we can count on that.

Of course, not all of our offense's problems were on him since Matt Canada was all-time bad but my concern about Kenny since he was drafted is that his ceiling is way too low and also I think his confidence is very low at this point, so it would be a bad decision to put all our hopes on him in 2024....If it's Rudolph or Tannehill our other QB it's going to be another 9-8 or 10-7 season with some lucky break with that for the 7th seed or out of the playoffs and that's the last thing I want, to be stuck in the middle once again...I'd rather take a risk on Justin Fields at the right price and see what happens

 

Dude, tell me why I SHOULD believe in Pickett. Aside from a couple of 4th quarter comebacks in which he sucked for 3 1/2 quarters, he’s done NOTHING as a professional quarterback. He threw 6 TD passes ALL SEASON. Ben threw that in a game once, maybe more. His TD to attempt rate is the LOWEST IN THE HISTORY OF THE NFL for a QB with at least 500 passes.

Pickett had a good game against Cincy and you often cite that while at the same time you’re dang sure you bring up how pathetic the Bengals defense is when someone brings up Rudolph’s good game against them. I’m not anti-Kenny at all, in fact I was one of the biggest Pickett supporters on this board for a year and a half and defended his poor play by blaming most of it on Canada. But Kenny’s got some major issues going on and I hope he’s able to overcome those and be a decent QB. But I’ll admit it, I do have some serious doubts.

 

No....He was Johnny M. Wr in college.

 

Lol, I think he was referring to their college days at A&M.

 

I haven’t ignored Pickett’s game against the Bengals. He played well but the fact is that the offense still only managed 16 points. I know, if and but but if ifs and buts were candy and nuts…Rudolph hung 30+ on the same defense.

And actually, Rudolph has 2 fourth quarter comebacks and 2 fourth quarter game winning drives including the one against the Rats this season. In the other games this season, he had the win secured and the game under control in the 4th quarter. That was kinda nice and not something we were used to seeing with Kenny.

 

Not ignoring anything, the offense under Pickett has averaged a paltry 16.8 points per game. And no, I haven’t forgotten about Canada. Not disputing in any way that Canada sucked, but Kenny sucked too. Between the two of them they generated a boatload of suckage!

What’s my narrative, Blast? That the last month of the season Mason Rudolph ran the offense exponentially better than Kenny or Mitch had in nearly two full seasons. You’d have to be blind and delusional not to recognize that.

 

Wow. Come on. These personal attacks are uncalled for and not your style.
Blind, delusional, and not able to recognize?

Just say "Whatchu talkin bout Willis? Don't be Malik"

 

Wilson will be cheaper, and better.

 

Probably wont know until after the draft. Also, if it's Mason and Kenny in camp, probably wont' know until week 1.

 

Oh, you mean the guy who started 12 games last year and threw for 6 TDs?

Remember that time when Ben had 6 TDs in a single game?

Yep, the QB situation in Pittsburgh has graduated from a sh!tshow to a 5 alarm dumpster fire.