"Listen," Kenny Pickett would say, with an inoffensive intonation that maybe only he could summon when starting a sentence with that word, "I'm gonna sling it until the end."
He'd just been asked about his confidence, meaning in himself, following the Steelers' 37-30 sinking by the Bengals on this Sunday evening at Acrisure Stadium, a strange setting in that an unprecedented offensive output for 2022 -- first time over 20 points, first time to three touchdowns -- still, somehow, seemed as stagnant as ever.
Hard to explain. Had to be there, I guess.