He started 1/2 the season last year. They say you know what you have in a QB by Thanksgiving his 2nd year. Well, by that matrix horsie not lookie so good. I'm not seeing it with Kenny; he has been beyond terrible. Nothing special - not athletically, not in his arm, and certainly, not in his mental processing ability. He doesn't notice wide open targets and it happens every game, not just once in a while. Kenny doesn't have "it." And like everything, it will take this team 3xs longer to figure it out. We have officially made it past scapegoat #2 (the OC sucks). Scapegoat #1 was "he's just a rookie." Now we will have to wait another year for scapegoat #3, "but he needs time to learn the new OC's system." And so it continues. It's Mark Malone all over again: 2 more years to go.
I don't buy it, Kenny had 1 good year in a college career with alot of the same bad tape. He has yet to show anything remotely impressive in a season and a half +
How about they ditch the HC who has proven over the past 12 years he is not going to get a team to another SB. Get a competent coach with competent assistants and coordinators....then judge.
I want Tomlin gone too, The guy couldn't beat Blake Bortles with the leagues 2 best skill position guys and a hall of fame QB. Its been over for years
It's like his first read is his ONLY option to him as others have pointed out, and he can't see others standing there in an open field, even when given time by the OL. I wanted to think he was a franchise QB, but I can't argue what is being said. When he is focused on his target that isn't covered too badly downfield he makes some great throws. Maybe the speed of the NFL is more than he can handle and I'm not making fun. Obviously, I couldn't do it.
I'll go to my usual response on this and there are others. Allen didn't have IT his 1st 2 or so years. He finally got the right offseason coach and came back with IT and now he's one of the best in the game. KP can come back and win games. That's very important. He does have things to work on but Canaduh was definitely holding him back. You have to give him next year to see what he has. I know I would. And, as I said before, if he isn't much better next year under and entirely new O coaching staff (if Tomlin will even go that far), then you start looking for a later 1st round QB who might be better than him because that's where our .500 or so team will be picking.
No you do not...
But they absolutely will… there will not be a new QB next season. Unless you count third string.. maybe…
I think that's a pretty accurate scenario which is unfortunate.
Pickett had it all going vs. the Bengals. That was exactly what he team needed. The score was not indicative of the play. And for The most part it was going that way vs. AZ. I'd like to see him well coached before I scrap him.
Me too.
You're right, but then we'd be Cleveland.
Exactly. You can see when even Pat Mahomes doesn't have everything in place.....it ain't great.
If I'm not mistaken it's limit the QB and offense, and rely on a very expensive defense for the win. Too bad the D is now injured....
I think Pickett has shown he can be a good player. Is he going to be elite? Probably not, but I think he can at least be good. People seem to have short term memory loss when it comes to QBs. All of our QBs have been bad in this offense. We shoot ourselves in the foot alot. Even last game when we got going we ended up with penalties, free rushers, bad snaps, or just plain bad play calls. Our first drive was looking great then one bad snap and we end w/ a FG. We cant score from the 1yrd line, Mitch fumbles a bad snap etc etc....If you watch the all 22 film Kenny made the right reads or at least a decent read most of the time. No QB is going to get every read right all the time. Also if someone is open, most of the time it seems to be on the opposite side of the field from the primary target and our line normally does not give Kenny that kind of time. I think it is too early to give up on Pickett, but he needs more help than the coaches / rest of the team are giving him now.
I agree that you give him one more year, but I am hoping for a miracle because from what I've seen in two years is dude has some serious flaws starting with his trouble with zone defense and just staring down his first read. I don't think he's the guy...you are just not going to strike gold twice in a row, first Ben and now Kenny of course. Having said that he deserves a chance under an experienced OC.
He stares at his primary receiver and that's it. You will never be a decent NFL QB operating like that. Kenny simply doesn't have "it."
I disagree. We've seen massive changes in 'how we approach things' w/ Omar Khan at GM. We've also seen our OC jettisoned mid-season - something that hasn't happened since JMM was a tike...
The offense has changed. What I mean by that is the combo OC's are calling better plays (sequentially) which make the balance better. The problem w/ the AZ game (I've rewatched it twice) was not scoring the TD early when Najee was stuffed on the goal line.