Hopefully, Pickett is a late bloomer. I still believe we need to give him until next year. I don't believe Canada returns so at least that excuse can be figured out. His ceiling is a moving target but currently he is projecting to be a game manager starter or high end backup. If I were to guess, and I am emphasizing guess, I would say his careers ends up looking a lot like Teddy Bridgewater.
What teams would swap OCs with us right now? I am sure your QB answer would be somewhat similar. Difference being Kenny has had a short time in comparison to Canada to show he belongs.
I dont think any QB is putting up 40 in this offense. I do think that CJ would do the best here, but he also has good young WRs and an offense that utilizes them. Levis's arm talent would be wasted here. He may not have underthrown Austin, but Pickett w/ good ribs may not have underthrown him either. Also that is not a high % pass in general so not necessarily an easy throw for anyone. Carolina is a bad team so it is hard to judge Young. I have not watched him play and I would be curious to see if his numbers came in garbage time or not. I would not say Howell has much more than us. They have 2 good WRs, a pretty good young RB, a very solid TE and like you said a much better OC. To me what seperates Pickett is the 4th quarter. I think the stat was in 2 yrs he is the 2nd highest rated QB in the league only behind Mahomes and has 6/7 game winning drives. You can not get much better than that, and he just needs to get to the point where we dont need the 4th quarter drives to win.
Offense has been at or near the bottom of every offensive category for three years with three different QB’s including a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
You agree that it's way too early for you to say Levis is anything, but you just said that "it appears" that the Titans have found a franchise quarterback.
The “Scheme” is ALL Mike Tomlin, Canada is just charged with trying to make it work, and doing very poorly at that.
Are you asserting we have both the 32nd best coordinator AND the 32nd best starting QB?
Don't know where each one ranks but I would imagine it isn't high. Kenny can still rise. Not sure about Canada.
Looks like that is based on 1 game am I correct with this?
It goes game by game, but there are several weeks of games there
The thought occurred that maybe Shades knows his offense and OC aren’t that good so running a low-risk low-reward offense with a decent defense and keep it close at the end is their best shot to win games.
I hear this so many times and I respectfully have to disagree on this. I’m sure this won’t be popular. And it’s certainly not all on Ben. Ben had his chances to get more. More than once he put us way, way behind the 8 ball by throwing multiple first half interceptions, some returns for tds others setting up the opponent in easy scoring situations. Forcing us to come from way behind. Taking us out of game plan.
| Rk | Year | G# | Date | Age | Tm | Opp | Result | Cmp | Att | Cmp% | Yds | TD | Int | Rate | Y/A | AY/A | Att | Yds | Y/A | TD | Notes | |
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| Rk | Year | G# | Date | Age | Tm | Opp | Result | Cmp | Att | Cmp% | Yds | TD | Int | Rate | Y/A | AY/A | Att | Yds | Y/A | TD | Notes | |
| 1 | 2022 | 9 | 2022-11-13 | 24-160 | PIT | NOR | W 20-10 | 18 | 30 | 60.00 | 199 | 0 | 0 | 79.7 | 6.63 | 6.63 | 8 | 51 | 6.38 | 1 | GWD | |
| 2 | 2022 | 11 | 2022-11-28 | 24-175 | PIT | @ | IND | W 24-17 | 20 | 28 | 71.43 | 174 | 0 | 0 | 87.5 | 6.21 | 6.21 | 6 | 32 | 5.33 | 0 | 4QC / GWD |
| 3 | 2022 | 15 | 2022-12-24 | 24-201 | PIT | LVR | W 13-10 | 26 | 39 | 66.67 | 244 | 1 | 1 | 81.6 | 6.26 | 5.62 | 3 | 9 | 3.00 | 0 | 4QC / GWD | |
| 4 | 2022 | 16 | 2023-01-01 | 24-209 | PIT | @ | BAL | W 16-13 | 15 | 27 | 55.56 | 168 | 1 | 0 | 86.7 | 6.22 | 6.96 | 5 | 2 | 0.40 | 0 | 4QC / GWD |
| 5 | 2023 | 5 | 2023-10-08 | 25-124 | PIT | BAL | W 17-10 | 18 | 32 | 56.25 | 224 | 1 | 0 | 88.5 | 7.00 | 7.63 | 6 | -6 | -1.00 | 0 | 4QC / GWD | |
| 6 | 2023 | 6 | 2023-10-22 | 25-138 | PIT | @ | LAR | W 24-17 | 17 | 25 | 68.00 | 230 | 0 | 0 | 97.1 | 9.20 | 9.20 | 8 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 4QC / GWD |
| 7 | 2023 | 8 | 2023-11-02 | 25-149 | PIT | TEN | W 20-16 | 19 | 30 | 63.33 | 160 | 1 | 0 | 88.2 | 5.33 | 6.00 | 1 | -1 | -1.00 | 0 | 4QC / GWD |
Shades actually believes that he is smarter than everyone else, and if he just continues doing the same thing it will all work out Fine. If only the players execute properly.
You and I both know that we are watching the greatest coach ever redefine how the game is to be played
