As soon as I made the decision to come here, I texted Kenny and got to talk to him a little bit and just tell him, hey, every day we go out there, let's be the best version ourselves and try to make this team better.

What was his reaction back to you given the dynamics of this situation now in the quarterback

room?

Yeah, it was, it was, you know, let's, let's make this team better, let's do all that stuff.

It was positive, it was forward, and let's go do it indeed. Let's go do it. Let's go do it. We'll be doing more for the next two

hours than Russell Wilson and Kenny. You go do it somewhere else. I'm going to do it

here, okay? Yeah. it somewhere else I'm going to do it here okay yeah within hours literally

of Russell Wilson talking about his conversations with Kenny Pickett can he

picket was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles and it became clear in the

aftermath of that transaction according to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Kenny Pickett

was not happy with the arrival of Russell Wilson.

Kenny Pickett had not been happy with the failure to put him back on the field

after he returned from an ankle injury last year.

They stuck with Mason Rudolph.

Kenny Pickett hadn't performed well enough to take a stand about anything.

So the Steelers jettisoned him for not very much to the Philadelphia Eagles.

Just as strange little development in a week full of them, the idea that the Steelers really did in less

than a month do a 180 from what they had planned to do.

Jerry Doolak, who has been breaking pretty much every Steeler's story since someone led him astray on February 17th,

telling him that the Steelers would not be signing a quarterback a veteran with aspirations

to start.

Do lacks the one who reported that it was the attitude of Kenny Pickett that got him

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