The beautiful thing about sports is that you can answer a lot of questions and cut out a lot of nonsense by getting back on the field. For the past week, the national sports media has been hammering home their preferred talking points surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers and WR George Pickens, most of whom have no insider perspective either into the player or the organization.
Head coach Mike Tomlin called Pickens’ frustrations “a pebble in my shoe” in terms of the significance of the problem that it presents. A man who’s been in the locker room before with him agrees that it’s not a significant issue.