Anyone who tracks the football world right now understands the drama surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers and wideout George Pickens.
That includes players like Cincinnati Bengals wideout Tyler Boyd.
Boyd was seemingly inevitably asked about the drama before his team takes on the Steelers in Week 16 and had a comment or two that doesn’t cast Pickens in the best light.
“It just shows the lack of camaraderie that’s over there,” Boyd said, according to ESPN’s Ben Baby. “I can’t really talk for anybody, but like when things ain’t going well, you still gotta perform at a high level and do what you can to help your team.”
Boyd continued “I saw a clip with him on a pick, it kind of looked like he wasn’t trying to chase it down. See, I don’t go about that. That’s something that they gotta deal with. When things ain’t going good, that’s when your true colors show. I like to be the same player week in, week out, whether it’s going good or bad for me.”
And while some might take this as bulletin-board material before an AFC North showdown, the reality is that Boyd is right on multiple levels.
Pickens has notably quit on a few plays this year and awkwardly explained the most recent occurrence, with one of his own teammates seemingly calling him out about it in the media.
And Boyd has walked what he’s talking, considering he and Joe Mixon are the only remnants of the extreme lows of the rebuild before the Super Bowl run. So much so, few wide receivers in the NFL are probably better qualified to speak on matters like this.
