Im not thrilled with the way he played, but he knew he had room to work with. Salas dropped a touchdown early that would have made things different, the interception was just bad, the fumble was stupidity, the sack was stupidity. He obviously will have to clean up the mistakes if we want to win next week.
He has shown a little improvement, but has a ways to go yet. You can't turn the ball over in the red zone.
I'm ecstatic with how he played, both inside the pocket and pulling down and running. Not trying to be a complete homer, but can someone explain what they saw on the fumble that led to it being held up? I saw his knee go down and him get hit in the forearm while he still had the ball.
Interceptions are going to happen. If I'm grading him I give him a B+ For today. He made plays with his arm and his feet and wasn't a liability like most like to claim he was last season. It was another solid step in the right direction. Just gotta show consistency which with his weapons I believe he will. CJ and Decker are huge in his development
Overall, he looked very good. He has so much more physical talent that Sanchez . . . so much more. Its' rather refreshing. One thing, though. He's gotta learn to stop imitating Fran Tarkenton on his dropbacks. Modern rushers are simply way too fast and athletic . . . you will rarely get away with that in today's NFL. Either you get rid of it or you go down. Stop going backwards.
I don't think the INT was bad. Woodson made a phenomenal play on that ball. Geno definitely had a good shot at squeezing it in.
Geno did his thang!!!! that fumble was due to a dumb call... Marty was feeling himself at the beginning of the game.
Only thing that bothered me about geno's performance was his ball handling while running... He's doing too much.. SLIDE GENO SLIDE!
If we lost the game would you still believe we could live with it? No. He needed to either take a slide or throw the ball away, not try to take on 3 defenders at the 3 yard line.
Yeah I was thinking during the game "I wonder if Sanchez ever had 13 straight completions"..probably not. Not even if you included the other team catching his passes too.
I was yelling that all game, lol. We need him healthy, and he's taking unnecessary shots. And that hit he took on the pitch was absolutely brutal.
Actually I'd say the other way around on that...the interception was kind of a freak thing (great play by Woodson) and the fumble was dumb, no reason to put your head down and barrel into a guy short of the goalline.
Same with that sack, its a rookie mistake, he cant allow that to happen under ANY circumstance. The coaching staff will go back to babying him and play conservative which is ultimately what we DONT need, we need a QB that can make the plays, or else we wont be winning anything with Rex.
Reminds of of Steamin Willie Beamin.. can hear Pacino now... "he's carrying that thing like of a loaf of bread out there! Someone teach this kid how to slide!
Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy for making a really good play which Woodson did on that interception, and not a dumb mistake as you said. That was a dart of a throw Smith made. Woodson timed it perfectly. Now the fumble is another story. Geno should not be running so recklessly. He needs to avoid getting hit so much, and run smartly. Why they didn't pound it with Ivory, is puzzling.
We will if our QB makes dumb mistakes, trust me, next time we are in that situation we will run the ball and take the 2 possession lead.
He's much improved as a passer and it showed for the most part. He still made some dumb mistakes, he was to aggressive running it early on which led to that fumble on the goal line. That sack he took was bad, he needs to throw it away since he was running backwards. The pick as well, needs to read that better especially with time to do so. Overall Geno looked pretty good, made some good reads and was deadly accurate. If he learns from the few blunders we could have something here.
