The Pittsburgh Steelers will have a new offensive coordinator next season as the team has hired former Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator Arthur Smith to lead the offense, and it sounds like one of his first goals is getting familiar with quarterback Kenny Pickett.
Arthur Smith made it clear that he thinks the relationship between quarterback and offensive coordinator is vitally important to the team’s success.
“There’s a relationship that’s got to be built between me and Kenny. That’s so paramount between the play caller and the quarterback,” Smith told Missi Matthews of the Pittsburgh Steelers official team website, via Pro Football Talk.
There’s no full guarantee that Pickett will be the team’s starting quarterback next season as head coach Mike Tomlin has made it clear that it will be an open competition for the starting quarterback role. Regardless, Smith intends to revitalize the team’s offense.
“There’s a certain identity we want to have,” Smith said. “Any offense I’ve been a part of it’s going to be physical, we want to win on the line of scrimmage, it’s also about playing to our strengths, create explosives, we want to have a very smart unit.”
We’ll have to see what Smith brings to the offense and whether or not Pickett will be the team’s starter.
