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Geno Smith tweets that he’ll be ‘WAY better’ after a full offseason

Smith might be feeling a bit defensive about his play, because he posted this after last night’s win.

The Seahawks beat the Rams yesterday, but it was hardly an encouraging performance from a team that’s fallen ass-backwards into the playoffs. While their pass rush has picked itself up off the ground, they’re still having trouble against the run and their offense has become totally dysfunctional outside of Ken Walker in recent weeks.

At the heart of the issue is continued reckless play by quarterback Geno Smith. On Sunday he threw two more interceptions, both picked off by Rams quarterback Jalen Ramsey. He also made at least one other throw that should have been his third pick of the game. Smith finishes the 2022 season with 11 interceptions to go with his 30 touchdowns. While that’s not a bad ratio by any means, it’s also much worse than earlier in the season and somewhat masks the problem.

Whereas early in the year Smith rode the fine line between being careful and aggressive as well as it possibly can be, since midseason Smith has been over-aggressive, sometimes by his own admission.

Smith’s mistakes have hurt his team in a huge way. Pro Football Focus detailed the numbers one month ago and actually claim his decline began way back in Week 5, causing a massive drop in total EPA for the Seahawks.

Since Week 15 things haven’t gotten any better. While Smith has looked competent in a couple games here and there, his turnover-worthy plays have continued at an unacceptable rate. All together, Smith threw seven interceptions over his last seven games and he’s lucky that total wasn’t higher thanks to dropped picks by his opponents. He has also fumbled five times since Week 10.

Smith might be feeling a bit defensive about his play, because he posted this after last night’s win, claiming he’ll be WAY better after a full offseason to focus on improvements.

The sample size is too large to write off, especially given Smith’s gunslinger instincts with the Jets early in his career.

Add it all up and you can make a compelling case for the Seahawks drafting a young quarterback, if nothing else as a backup plan in case Smith has reverted back to that 2013-2014 form permanently.

With the regular season over, the Seahawks are in line to pick at No. 5 overall in the draft. That probably puts them out of reach for Alabama’s Heisman winning quarterback Bryce Young, but Ohio State stud C.J. Stroud might yet still be on the board.

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Seahawks QB Geno Smith wins NFC Offensive Player of the Month

The Seahawks are sweeping up awards left and right this season.

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The Seahawks are sweeping up awards left and right this season.

In addition to his teammates Tariq Woolen and Ken Walker winning Rookie of the Month honors, quarterback Geno Smith has been named the NFC Offensive Player of the Month.

Smith played five games in October, posting a 4-1 record. During that run, he averaged 241.4 passing yards per game, completed 102 of 147 passes (69.38%) and threw nine touchdown passes to go with only one interception – which happened to be a tipped ball.

For the season, Smith leads the league in completion percentage, ranks fourth in QBR and fifth in PFF’s Bayesian QB rankings. They have also named him the league’s best deep passer this year.

What a ride.

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Geno Smith among NFL leaders in these 10 QB categories

Going into Week 6, Smith leads the league in some important stats and is among the elites in several others.

Seeing is believing. After five games the verdict is that Geno Smith has somehow become one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Even if you threw out the tape the numbers back up his case, as well.

Going into Week 6, Smith leads the league in several important stats and is among the elites in several more. Here are 10 impressive top-10 numbers from Smith so far this season.

Seahawks QB Geno Smith: Passing charts from his 2021 games

Here are the passing charts from the three other games that Smith appeared in last year.

The Seahawks made the news official yesterday that quarterback Geno Smith is re-signing with the organization on a one-year deal. While we’re pretty much alone in this prediction, we believe Smith coming back will preclude the team from selecting a quarterback in the 2022 NFL draft – certainly not with the No. 9 overall pick.

That would make Smith the clear favorite to start Week 1, even if they do take a flyer on one of the non-Malik Willis QB prospects in this class. Let’s see what we can learn from Smith’s passing charts from the 2021 season.

For some reason, Next Gen Stats doesn’t have the passing chart from the Seahawks’ dominant victory over the Jaguars in Week 8. That was easily Smith’s best performance of his career, so it’s unfortunate not to have that. Then again, the defensive effort by Jacksonville in that game was the worst we witnessed during the entire 2021 season, so Smith’s impressive tape and numbers from that day have to be taken with a grain of salt and a big asterisk in any case.

Here are the passing charts from the three other games that Geno Smith appeared in last year.

Week 5 vs. Rams (4th quarter only)

Week 6 vs. Steelers

Week 7 vs. Saints

What we see is a lot of completions under 10 yards, befitting a quarterback with conservative, game manager inclinations. You will not find many balls thrown 25 or more air yards very often. That’s a huge difference from former franchise QB Russell Wilson, who routinely completed 40+ yard bombs in almost every game he played in Seattle.

No. 7 simply can’t match Wilson’s deep ball accuracy/power, as is the case for most NFL quarterbacks. However, the tradeoff is that he’s much more inclined to attack the middle and intermediate areas of the field to move the chains, which are practically blind spots in Russell Wilson’s game due to his lack of size and his stretch every play out looking deep beyond reason impulses.

Wilson’s approach to the position and his personality may be annoying. However, a quarterback that can’t threaten a defense vertically is a bad quarterback in today’s NFL.

Smith is a significant step down from Mr. Dangerous, but we believe coach Pete Carroll is more-than willing to take that tradeoff – even if he says they want a mobile QB who takes risks. If he did he would have insisted on keeping Wilson.

At the end of the day, Carroll believes he can win modern NFL games through a strong rushing attack, quality defense and sharp special teams play. He’s fundamentally wrong about that and it will probably be what will ultimately cost him his job – along with the two atrocious blockbuster trades involving Wilson and strong safety Jamal Adams.

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