Geno Smith isn't ready this year. He didn't come out and throw some gorgeous passes and make a mistake or two. He tossed three ugly interceptions, ran out of the end zone, looked easily fooled, and is not ready for the NFL. Last year's rookies - Wilson, Luck, and RG III all sparked their team...high completion %, low mistakes, showed a leadership quality. Wilson was a 3rd round pick and easily won the starting job in Seattle....Smith lost the battle in practice the last two weeks -- last night was just a realization of the fact that all the Smith hype is way overblown. The kid might be something one day but showed nothing last night that makes you think this guy can be a guy that leads a team to the playoffs.
I already said Geno clearly isn't ready right now. You want to write off his career after 1 preseason start in his rookie year. It's stupid. In the thread dumpster where it belongs.
His career as an NFL starter - yes - i don't see it. I don't see that spark you see in top tier NFL starters. I saw a QB that made horrible plays last night a rookie that has been brutal in camp the last two weeks. You aren't bringing in a pro-style college QB and just teaching him a new offense. You are bringing in a no huddle, quick snap, screen passing college QB and trying to transform his entire game.
Smith made Rookie mistakes,, he threw some nice passes and had numerous dropped balls,, hes got a better arm than Sanchez and can run better than Sanchez...I say give him a shot...The Jets have to get a running game going, Ivory isn't looking so good,,That direct snap to Powell works well.
The one bright spot in an otherwise long and dreary night for Geno was the first drive of the second half. He made several good throws and led the Jets to a score after the bad first half. Yes, he looks raw out there and yes he looks like the game is whizzing by him at light speed a lot of the time. That disease is known as "rookie fever".
On this fact alone he beats out Mark Sanchez. Seriously, if the QB cannot throw competent screen passes Marty Mornhinweg's WCO is going to be DOA. I highly doubt that MM is even considering going with Sanchez as the starting QB this season. The one thing he absolutely needs his QB to do is one of the things that Sanchez is pitifully bad at.
He should of went to Headband camp. He as a rookie has come in here cocky and last night got his wake up call, which I think is good as it should make him better if he learns from it. Last night however proved he is not the second coming of Jesus as so many painted him to be and he need more work. In the future he might be good but right now hes not.
Sanchez was finally throwing effective screen passes in the last game if you watched. Just throwing that in there to correct.
Geno Smith will never be an NFL starter. hes a glorified running back. anyone that watches college football consistently would know this, hell be as good as pat white was
Colin Kaepernick's rookie preseason snaps: Games played: 4 Completions: 24 Attempts: 50 Yards: 257 Touchdowns: 0 Interceptions: 5 Fumbles: 2 Passer Rating: 23.9 And two years later he's in the super bowl. Come on, Geno had one bad start. It's fine to let him sit for a season, but to immediately label him a bust after one start is ridiculous. We've just been spoiled by Andrew Luck and RGIII who light it up right away.
Nobody seems to understand Geno is a rookie and not being able to start game 1 of your rookie year doesn't mean your career is over. We needed to see where Geno was, and we saw, he is a typical rookie. Ok, now we know. If we didn't play him, we wouldn't know. He isn't ready for Week 1, now we know. Let him study up and he might get another shot later in the season, and we can reevaluate.
Thank You. The number of comically reactionary posts regarding last nights game is giving me a headache.
This is the story of football. Almost nobody comes out and looks just great from the first few snaps. Not even the all-time greats do that. Johnny Unitas was cut by the Steelers in his first camp. Didn't look like an NFL QB. The Steelers were trying out 4 QB's in that camp and they let Unitas go because he was not smart enough to be an NFL QB...
I'll include Andy Dalton's too because he was another second round QB. Games played: 4 Completions: 36 Attempts: 60 Comp %: 60% Yards: 328 Touchdowns: 1 Interceptions: 3 Fumbles: 2 Passer Rating: 59.6 As Geno stand now: Games played: 2 Completions: 22 Attempts: 37 Comp %: 59% Yards: 246 Touchdowns: 1 Interceptions: 3 Fumbles: 0 Passer Rating: 54.6 Geno is performing almost as well as Dalton, but miles ahead of Kaepernick. Let's give him a few chances first.
I think people are going crazy because of the hype and are using "sanchez hater" logic in their postings.
you can compare preseason stats all you want. geno isnt ever gonna be dalton and hes definitely not ever gonna be kaepernick
