This is where maybe our disagreement stems from. If anything I was impressed w/ Geno all season..even when he was throwing all the picks & the finished product was struggling. He seemed to learn from his mistakes & even in bad games made alot of impressive throws/plays.So I see him as a guy w/ his stock going way up in year 2.
Say what you want about Sanchez....and I've said some shit. He either knew how to step it up in big games or he was too dumb to feel the pressure. Is that revisionist?
So we go back to the drawing board again. Yay. Maybe, dickzik should have put effort into finding offense, and gotten Sanchez to take the 4 mil he got in Philly to stay here while we found out if Smith had potential beyond Airraid, and superior college talent....(in terms of two viable receiving options....
Nowhere to go but up! I believe that with the better weapons he's now surrounded by, Geno will continue to build on his strong finish to last season.
Not much. ...getting used to being out here in Ohio, with little to no NY sports news....trying to plan for the PH TG.
You were impressed with him the whole season even when he was struggling? Even the two game stretch where he threw 0 TDs, completed 41 % of his passes, less than 5 YPA and an int in almost one of every 10 passes? This circles back to my original question. What is in the kool-aid that you're drinking?
there is no way to say that you were impressed with geno the entire season. there were points in the saeson that he made me really wonder how in the hell he ever made it to the big leagues. but the highs were always high enough to keep me interested. geno is not the kind of guy, at least with his current body of work, that will make a defense think too hard on the field. the thing is however, that his last 4 games of the season paint a clear picture of a guy who is getting better; a guy who is not lost out there at all but somebody that gets the game and can at least see what is happening in front of him. marty did a great job tailoring the gameplans to genos strengths, and you cannot discredit that, but at the end of the day it was on geno to put it all together and make it work out there on the field. looking at last season hes done more than enough to give him the shot at leading the team for another year. the thing that gets me about this 'article' is really how it seems like such an obvious jab at the jets and their fans. geno smith is not the best qb in the league, e may even be outshined by some of this years rookies. but he is definitely not the worst in the league and to suggest that a rookie whom showed obvious signs of improvement by the ned of the year, is just wrong. if he doesnt improve from the last four games, hes already not the worst in the league. if he regresses, well maybe you have a point, but everything about the kid suggests that he will either get better or stay where he is. there is no regression from a guy that studies film like geno and works like geno. the kid makes all the right moves off the field, its certainly reasonable to think that he can improve on the field. i just dont get why you wouldnt account for things like that when calling him worse than guys whom have been in the league for years and have never gotten any better.
I don't think anyone should be satisfied with how Geno did last year. The good thing is, he has a lot going for him now (a better offense and a full season of tape to study and learn from), and things are in place for him to make a big improvement and show that he can be a starting QB. He really wasn't ready to start last year, now he shouldn't be raw anymore and we'll see if he has potential to be decent. He stayed healthy, unlike Manuel; and unlike Freeman and Henne, he was a rookie learning to play at the NFL level. He showed that can can make big plays running, and make big throws downfield. Let's see if he improves his fundamentals and can build off of the good things he did last year, and make fewer mistakes.
Geno played 2013 looking like the rookie he was ... Some good , some bad, some very bad. 2014 will tell us if he is worth hitching the cart to for the next decade or not
My question is how short of a leash does Geno have in 2014? I mean, if he throws 2 INT's in the 1st half against the Raiders and Oakland leads 14-3 at halftime, does Vick get inserted to start the 3rd Quarter? Interesting to think about.
I don't think he'd get pulled that quickly, especially if he had played solidly in pre-season and didn't go into the season on shaky ground.
Not surprising, if you told me to rank Geno's play on a 1-5 scale, I would have debated between a 4 and a 5 which is where he landed in this poll. Makes sense, he played bad last year and when he played bad it was really bad. I could see an argument to say Geno isn't the absolute worst, but he was in the bottom tier of starting QBs last year so overall no big deal. That doesn't mean I'm not excited to see if Geno can improve with weapons and another year in an NFL system.
We're all gonna figure it out real fast...just not that fast. Oakland should be something our defense can handle by themselves, but our offense may need to put up 100 over the next three games (Green Bay/Chicago/Detroit) just to stay competitive. I say give him four games without having to throw to a group of pass catchers who should have been selling insurance in Albuquerque last year, then we'll talk.
You have to give him credit for those 4th QTR comebacks and the 3 divisional games at the beginning of the year, he performed pretty well.
