Fine. He once had talent. But he got hurt a lot and that shoulder was fucked up badly. Yet, solely because of yardage numbers, they projected him as a Heisman candidate. Seriously shit reporting back then, all the while we could see his accuracy had gone into the toilet and his decision-making had become erratic at best. Compare the #'s and Price was at 10 % points better on completion %, had more TD's (73 vs. 55) and fewer ints (30 vs. 43). Maybe the cowboy-tough-guy (i.e., invincible) stuff went to Pickett's head, and he read his own press clippings. Bottom line was that his performance on the field was defied most of what was written and obliviously parroted by fans at the time. As a realist, watching a QB and program sinking like the Titanic while the band played on? Fist-through-wall infuriating. I haven't forgotten, and we're still digging out from that period of delusion.
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