Kenny Pickett Is Terrified Of Competition
First off, as a Steelers fan, I could not be more excited that Kenny Pickett is off this team. I hated the pick on draft night, I hated watching him play, and I am beyond happy with the fact that he was traded to the Eagles. Anyone with a set of functional eyes would tell you he was a sixth-round player who has somehow regressed and would be lucky to start in the CFL. But, he would have to compete for the spot, which as it turns out he is terrified of.
Look at how he reacted to the Russell Wilson signing. He threw a tantrum and decided to take his ball and go home. We kind of knew this was how he was when he had a hissy fit about dressing as the emergency third-string QB last season, and decided he wouldn’t. If I was Kenny Pickett, I would be embarrassed about how I have been acting, but he doubled down on it today and even said he was confident in how he handled the whole Wilson situation.
Full quote via espn.com:
“I think the communication is what it is. It was behind closed doors. I’m confident in the way that I handled it. I handled it the way I should have handled it,” Pickett said at his introductory news conference Monday. “I’m excited to be here. It worked out so well that Philly was the place I ended up landing in. Everything happens for a reason and I’m right where I’m supposed to be.”
Give me a break. Do you expect anyone to actually think this situation was handled the right way? The right way was looking inward and realizing you suck, and accepting that this is now the second time you’ve been beaten out of a starting spot in six months. Sit behind a Super Bowl champion and wait your turn. But instead, he thinks his you know what doesn’t stink and he can thrive elsewhere. He doesn’t want to try and beat out Wilson, who also stinks, because he’s terrified. Well, now he’s stuck behind a quarter-billion-dollar QB who is going nowhere.
Kenny Pickett likely will never be a full-time starter in the NFL again, and the sooner he realizes it the better. Enough with the woe-is-me nonsense and come to grips with it. I would say he could try for a spot on the San Antonio Brahmas, but with how scared to death he is of competition, my guess he will ride the bench in Philly and collect his checks.
