I thought that it was understood that rookies will make mistakes? We have to be patient with him and so far he's been decent. I felt his performances got better each week until the train wreck that was the Titans game, but he bounced back nicely against the Falcons. Only posters with agendas are overlooking the obvious.
With comments like that, its no wonder this board is getting worse. Just as you point out that "some people" want Geno to fail - and honestly I have no idea whom you are referring too because even Junc and Hobbes want to see Geno succeed - there were plenty of people on this board and in Jets fan-dom that couldn't wait for Sanchez to get injured. Remember the post Sanchez re-tweeted in post season? Someone wished him an ACL tear. Really? This is our fucking fan-base? Hoping our potential starter at the QB position gets injured? So the distaste goes both ways. Don't add to the smell by making fringe statements that are just as bad as those you are condemning. And being a Sanchez defender/supporter/whatever, does not mean someone wants Geno to fail. I'm pretty sure these people want the TEAM to win.
With lebeau and the steelers D the downs may be more numerous than last week. They are winless and will be taking risks all over the place. That could open up several big play possibilities thru the air and with smith taking off running. I will be more impressed if we have any kind of efficiency and ball movement like last Monday.
This is not gonna be an easy game. Pittsburg is coming off a bye and jets are on a short week. At best this game is a toss up.
Would like to hear the response to the following from some of the more knowledgable members here: How can you tell if he is throwing to pre-determined spots or not? Weren't all the players saying how he changed the call at the line on almost all of the plays on the last drive of the game? This guy is usually eerily right in the long run. I think he's definitely wrong about the C- at best grade.
He blathers well. Nothing wrong with that I certainly do that also. 5 minutes of research on his blog led me to the Kevin Kolb is going to be great, Charlie Whitehurst is better than Matt Hasselbeck and John Skelton has star potential post. Anybody really worried about what he thinks about Geno Smith after those gems?
I am pretty sure most of us will have some patience. We just are starved for a good quarterback that's all. We want to see Geno have success that's all.
Not that i would consider myself one of the more knowledgable posters but from what i can tell he is flat out wrong. Many of the routes being run rely on the receiver finding a soft spot in the coverage in their relegated area. So while geno knows where to look for each receiver on each play where exactly they are going to be is up to the coverage. Geno has a bit of a problem holding obto the ball too long which would suggest hes still getting used to that style of play and definitely not just throwing to spots and hoping for the best. Just my two cents but that analysis seems like he made a call and is now trying to substantiate it by claiming things that are hard to argue against
Yep, ups & downs are what rookie QBs do, so I'm expecting it as well. It happened with Sanchez... problem is it continued 4 years into his career.
Yea he's not always on but he's way more accurate than any other so called expert/analyst I've seen and he'll actually go against the mainstream without hesistation. I think that's spot on. To a degree he's just saying hold your horses but he definitely down played the MNF performance. I think Geno is smart and learning. I like to look at the metrics for guidance but there are attributes that are immeasurable. A lot of that analysis is based on Geno being in the air raid, sub par mechanics, etc. He's already showing improvements and that he's not just a system qb. Knock on wood.
I might be misremembering, but Geno gave away RZ opportunities in the NE game, a key one, he doesn't so since. Geno had terrible ball security against TEN, he tucked that ball and ran, and really kept it tucked, you could see. Geno was underthrowing deep balls, didn't do so in ATL. I hope this stays through the whole season, but I'm seeing small changes in Geno the thing is, when things get touch again, will they stick? It's scary but I'm so happy when Geno seems to know when a play isn't broken and won't throw there. The only bad mental decisions I remember from Geno was the TEN game behind the back fimble and the RZ INT against NE. The other mistakes seem to either be learning the game or mechanics, which I think and hope can be fixed.
He's a rookie so it's a given problem with Sanchez was he kept playing like he did his rookie year after 4 seasons
of course you very conveniently forgot to mention that GENO's receivers dropped 6 passes in the NE game in a monsoon. If Gates held onto two of those drops, Geno would not have to throw in the 4th quarter of that game. In Tennessee, the whole team was dysfunctional. The OL stunk to high heavens! Geno played poorly I will agree. he is part of the team! I agree with you that GENO is learning and has played reasonably well with NO experience while learning a difficult WCO system. ROME WAS NOT BUILT IN ONE DAY!
So the drops meant he had to throw there, it doesn't absolve him of throwing a INT in that situation. The drops might have put him in that situation we shouldn't have been, but that doesn't mean it's okay to compound on previous mistakes. Yeah I was thinking more TEN the poor ball security. The first strip fumble the ball was out there without him tucking it, the second fumble was him trying to move the ball while being sacked on his own 1 yard line. I also agree Rome wasn't built in a day, maybe my post didn't come off as it, but I was being positive about Geno.
