A GREAT MOVE BY THE STEELERS’ NAJEE HARRIS, EN ROUTE TO PITTSBURGH’s 44-38 WIN OVER CINCINNATI, DEC. 1. (PHOTO BY MIKE PATTON)
…George Pickens’ act called unsportsmanlike; but then many NFL fans say, ‘Protect the Second Amendment
The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson mesmerized, hypnotized and declawed the lowly Cincinnati Bengals by the score of 44-38, Dec. 1. Pittsburgh and Cincy slugged it out for four quarters with the Steelers finally scoring a TKO while answering the question of “Who Dey?”
What was strange and funny was that the Steelers were three-point underdogs or somewhere in that vicinity, depending on what gambling website folks wanted to take their money first. Hey get this, there was some chatter coming out of the Bengals locker room guaranteeing that the Bengals were going to defeat the Steelers. As the late James Brown would say, “Please, please. please,” keep a few of these players away from the CBD and THC gummies as well as the double chocolate brownies laced with potent Hawaiian “herbs and spices” you digggg, for their own good, simply because they may be over-indulging and suffering from delusions.
Remember the Russell Wilson who passed for 414 yards in defeating the Bengals is the same Russell Wilson who was proclaimed by the majority of the media, the fans and many coaches to be washed up and rapidly approaching the twilight of his illustrious career. This is the same Russell Wilson, the ex-Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos QB, whose Broncos Head Coach berated him in public, just to feed his power-hungry ego. This is the same quarterback that the Seattle Seahawks allowed to walk away with a Super Bowl victory in tow, with Seattle appearing to be unfazed and unscathed by their franchise committing such an egregious and unforced error.
This is the same QB that ex-Steelers QB Kenny Pickett refused to back up or even compete against for the starting QB job of the Pittsburgh Steelers and subsequently demanded to be traded.
Let’s switch gears for a few minutes. Less than a year ago, when Kenny “The Wicked” Pickett was under center, the Steelers’ number one wide receiver, George Pickens, was one phone call from being shipped out into the great blue yonder of oblivion simply because he wanted a quarterback, any quarterback to throw him the football. At that point in Kenny Pickett’s career, he seemed to be comfortable with and exercising the following game plan: 1. Hand the ball off to running back Najee Harris. 2. Find Pat Freiermuth, his first and last option to throw the ball to. 3. Overthrow or underthrow the receiver, 4. Throw a pick. 5. Hold the ball for dear life and take a well-deserved sack. 6. Oops, I meant to say, take a well-deserved rest.
Russell Wilson was shunned, stunned and bummed out because his head coach at the Denver Broncos, Sean Payton, did not feel that Russell Wilson was intellectually capable or compatible to fit in with him and his system.
Mark “the mouthpiece” Madden recently posted this postgame gem online after the Steelers defeated the Bengals. “T.J. Watt has the odd spectacular game. Witness two sacks, a forced fumble, and three tackles for loss at Cincinnati. But Cam Heyward is the MVP on that defense. His consistency dictates. Heyward had a sack, two tackles for loss and deflected a pass that got intercepted. He can be spectacular too.”
T.J. Watt has been my annual favorite for the NFL Defensive Player of the Year for at least the past five years, so I wholeheartedly agree that Watt is usually spectacular, but during the Steelers recent loss to the Cleveland Browns, Watt was less than stellar because of multiple blocking schemes that were implemented to prevent him from disrupting the Browns’ offensive game plan.
However, as far as Mark Madden’s opinion of Steelers wide receiver George Pickens is concerned, I am not going to dignify his words by defining those words as a legitimate analysis because I am certain that Madden continues to be infected with the “Django” disease. Sure signs of the “Django” disease are: saying anything and everything about young Black athletes, their culture, their background and their intellect or lack of. Madden says the following about George Pickens. “Wideout George Pickens isn’t very bright and lacks accountability. He had 74 yards receiving at Cincinnati but gave back 30 via unsportsmanlike conduct flags. The Steelers need to draft a receiver, find another in free agency and ditch Pickens in the offseason. His contract expires after the 2025 campaign, but extending him for big money would be stupid. Pickens’ idiocy too often undoes his ability. Pickens can’t be a lame duck on an expiring contract next season. He’d go totally cuckoo.”
Why haven’t they ditched Mark Madden and his editors? Could Pickens be as cuckoo as ex-Steelers QB Kenny Pickett by refusing to dress for a game and demanding a trade because he felt entitled enough to feel that he did not have to compete for the number one QB position? George Pickens isn’t very bright and lacks accountability. George Pickens is supposedly stupid. The idiocy of George Pickens. George Pickens is at risk of going cuckoo. Well, Madden has been cuckoo for decades with no therapist in sight. So far, the only violation that George Pickens may have committed was wanting the football thrown his way.
George Pickens has had multiple targets placed on his back by the officiating crews of the NFL as well as the media and fans, at times both deserved and undeserved. George Pickens was allegedly penalized for allegedly displaying gun signs during the Steelers/Bengals clash. However, why haven’t the ultra-conservative members of the NRA been flagged, penalized and fined for pushing lackadaisical and ineffective gun laws that are shielded under the perverted and corrupt umbrella of the so-called Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America that permits certain individuals with questionable backgrounds to purchase firearms that may be used to commit numerous firearms violations?
Some players may exhibit symbolic gun signs on the playing field, but realistically, many individuals throughout society, including some NFL fans, don’t just display gun signs, they use real guns. As long as society permits the NFL or any other sports organization to create and maintain “control methods” shielded by autonomous pseudo-laws disguised as “discipline,” those methods will never be administered fairly and equitably.
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