The next-to-next-to-last thing a lousy football team needs is another step backward. The next-to-last thing a lousy football team needs is a seismic, several-day distraction from a dire situation at hand. And the very last thing a lousy football team needs is a very lousy quarterback.
Which is to say, Kenny Pickett's got to stick. In Buffalo and beyond.
One would think it's excruciatingly obvious at this stage of these Steelers' 1-3 start, especially after an across-the-board awful 24-20 loss to the lesser of New York's own two lousy football teams Sunday at Acrisure Stadium, but then, this was Mike Tomlin's response when I asked afterward if his halftime decision to replace Mitch Trubisky with Pickett will hold through another weekend:
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"You know, I'm not gonna talk extended as we sit here," came the reply.