Letter to the editor: Don't write off Pickett, Steelers
Regarding the letter “Steelers set up for failure” (Nov. 25, TribLIVE): No, the Steelers organization is not rudderless and unrecognizable. The Rooneys pick good people, and they trust them. But how do you know if it’s a good person going through a rough patch, or you just have the wrong person?
With Matt Canada, they had the wrong person. Canada hadn’t really shown brilliance at any level, and the Steelers gave him enough time to sort it out. Eventually they knew Canada was not the right fit, they thoroughly convinced themselves of it, and they let him go.
But Kenny Pickett is the opposite. Pickett has shown brilliance. Just like hitting a home run in the majors, being able to throw a dime in the NFL takes a special kind of talent, and Pickett has shown he has elite accuracy. I saw the same missed passes against the Browns that you did, but Babe Ruth didn’t hit a home run every time. That’s not the point. The point is he was one of the very few human beings who could hit a home run.
Pickett is not a busted draft pick. Let’s give him an offense that is of NFL caliber, not high school caliber, and see what he can do before we write him off. We’re not the Browns.
Bob Leitzel
Little Elm, Texas
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