Glad all that nonsense is over. Yep, I'm glad one of the biggest questions facing our wonderful nation has been answered. We've all been sitting around vexed, exasperated and on a zillion pins and needles thinking, talking and wondering about Kenny Pickett's hands.
More to the point, the size of them.
The verdict came down Thursday morning from Indianapolis.
The former Pitt signal-caller had ruler put to hand (not in the way nuns used to do it, but in a good way) and when all was tabulated we arrived at 8.5 inches.
With that, Pickett's right hand --- the one he throws with --- would be the smallest throwing hand of any quarterback currently in the National Football League.
I thought Pickett had a brilliant line on Wednesday from Indianapolis when he quipped: "Whatever it measures, it measures. I'm sure that won't be the end of it, but that will be the last measurement I'm sure I'll take of it."
Which leads me to something: I think I might disagree with Pickett here. I think Kenny Pickett will be a good NFL quarterback. I don't envision he will be among the greats, but I think he will rise to the level of being a starter and have a decent career. Some think he will be among the elite; some think he will bomb out --- I have him pegged somewhere in the wide abyss in the middle.
But where I disagree with Pickett is where he says, "I'm sure that won't be the end of it."
To me, for anyone who has a brain, this will be the end of it.
Haven't we gone on with this charade long enough?
Pickett has already played --- and played well --- in cold weather games and proved he can get it done as a Rust Belt quarterback. What did people want him to do, win games in Antarctica whilst naked?
So while we've gone through this big make-believe controversy and hullaballoo just to kind of create one, it will come down to if Kenny Pickett can win games or not.
Period.
Period, period, period.
If he wins games, I don't envision there will be one person (with a brain, that is) who dubs him some quarterback who can go out and get Ws despite having small hands.
Just as, conversely because of what we have already seen from him on the collegiate level, if he performs poorly there will be one person (with a brain at least) who thinks his failures will come about because he has small hands.
The size of Kenny Pickett's hands is at least attribute No. 150 on a long list of attributes that NFL people truly looking to potentially draft him are considering. There is so much more to consider that is so much more important.
Heck, I wonder if the people inside NFL offices are kind of even getting a chuckle themselves over just how much a big deal the public is making this?
Kenny Pickett might be great. He might stink. I don't know. But I know this: His NFL future won't at all be decided by the size of his hands.
Cool and fun story while it lasted, but really a whole lot of nothin'.
