Kenny Pickett was last year on a stunning carpet trip in Philadelphia in the Super Bowl ring as a copy of Jalen Hurts. When the former selected in the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round, QB Battle starts in Cleveland, he believes that time in Philadelphia has made him ready to start again.
“I am extremely grateful for my time in Philly,” Pickett said through the official copy of the team. “I think I’ve been shown how to do, in fact, from the top down. So when you get the opportunity to see what to look like and what it should look daily, not just on Sundays. You know, I think it will pay dividends for me in the future.”
Although he has not mentioned Pittsburgh at all, some will certainly read Pickett’s comments as a slight Mike Tomlins operation – even if no one was intended. The reality is that sometimes young team leaders need a step back to scale and learn to do things differently. Pickett was composed early in the weak QB category, threw into the fire of Pittsburgh and burned into a fraction that lacked in all episodes. Perhaps instead of a slight pittsburgh instead of Pittsburgh, it should be regarded as a nodding – a famous son of a coach.
Pickett hopes to use what he learned in Philly in the competition with Joe Flacco, Dillon Gabriel and Sheede Sanders in Cleveland. With OTA that only opens on the ground, it is very early in the Browns QB race, but Pickett stated that there was no hostility in the room.
“I think it’s the outside world that makes it much bigger than it is,” he said. “When you are day by day and you are in meetings with these guys, you are from exercise, you spend so much time together. Of course we are all competing, but you will be friends of everyone. You know, we are help that I have been friends and what we have.
Flacco’s experience in Kevin Stefanski’s system could eventually give him his foot, but at this stage it is a wide competition where Pickett tries to write the next chapter in his NFL career.
“I just always approached every day as I see the boot, no matter where I was in the depth,” he said. “So even when I was in Philly, I would prepare as if I was a starter because you never know when that opportunity was going to play. And you know, you want to be as ready as you can be.