Hold on now and lets get this straight here, I'm a Geno supporter because I actually think Geno can play very well this year and beyond for us. This is not and far from wanting to win some message board argument. True I wanted Geno gone from last years Bills (3 straight int game) and actually wanted the Jets to lose the rest of the games so we can draft Winston. The former regime in particular sexy rexy gave us a real good F-you present on his way out the door to a 4 win season.
However; after realizing the Winston dream was done and the Foles trade fell through also I started to think can Geno actually get it together this year? I don't see why he can't! Better all around team this year by leaps and bounds then he had his first two years here. Even better, leaps and bounds in coaching and management then what he had years one and two also. He came from a non pro style offense in college so there was going to be a transition ruff period anyway in which he should have sat at least one year but that didn't happen.
With all this said and these are all facts, I'm hoping he has learned and grown just off principal of what he went through for two hard NFL years. Then you add in the fact this is a playoff ready team with real true weapons on both sides of the ball and he has a real HC and GM now. So why can't he improve and make a impact for the better this year? That is why I started the thread asking, "Can Geno actually become a real QB and contribute for us this year" explaining all of this in my opening thread.
The thread went back and forth for quite some time and ended up being about 9 pages long, I guess. I started the thread because I meant it and the way I felt and still feel that Geno can do better this year and I wanted to get a feel of everyone else's opinion. So this isn't a battle of the message board beef. Although there is one poster in specific that has brought me to that, I will admit. This is truly the way I feel and I believe Geno can actually help this team to success this year. Am I saying MVP or even pro-bowl stats, of course not but very good and holding his own stats and I truly do believe that.
As far as his play last year, Geno's stats last year weren't stella but they did improve. Argue it all you want but they did improve. Argue that fact that he didn't play a full year and if he did his stats would have been worse. You would probably be right but then again, non of us know that for a fact. What could have happened without non of us being God and knowing for a fact is pointless to discuss. Geno had far more bad games then good ones last year and the year before and thats why I gave up on him myself. However; he did have some good games both years also.
His stats may have improved but here is a stat for you 34 ints in how many games? Not to mention his fumbles, poor judgement, poor pocket awareness, inaccurate, want me to keep going? But hey he improved right! So here is a dose of reality for you:
NFL Total QBR - 2014 Season Leaders
his rank out of 30 is 29, not bad...
RK PLAYER PASS EPA RUN EPA SACK EPA PEN EPA TOTAL EPA ACT PLAYS QB PAR QB PAA TOTAL QBR
21 Jay Cutler, CHI 52.6 7.9 -19.3 1.8 43.0 703 64.3 8.3 54.0
22 Teddy Bridgewater, MIN 46.0 7.3 -24.6 2.8 31.5 523 41.9 0.2 50.2
23 Alex Smith, KC 47.7 7.5 -26.0 3.9 33.1 616 48.0 -1.1 49.4
24 Brian Hoyer, CLE 39.3 -3.7 -16.1 1.9 21.4 538 32.0 -10.9 43.1
25 Kyle Orton, BUF 41.6 -0.9 -19.0 -1.6 20.1 539 31.2 -11.7 42.6
26 Derek Carr, OAK 29.4 -1.2 -12.3 0.4 16.3 702 31.8 -24.1 38.4
27 Austin Davis, STL 23.3 -1.4 -15.6 1.6 7.9 355 15.3 -13.0 37.6
28 Josh McCown, TB 25.1 7.1 -23.4 -0.3 8.5 425 15.8 -18.1 35.7
29 Geno Smith, NYJ 28.2 -3.6 -16.8 2.1 10.0 494 17.9 -21.5 35.4 Bingo - he is what he is a bad QB. NO one made him throw 34 picks, no one.
30 Blake Bortles, JAX 3.4 8.7 -28.3 3.2 -13.0 637 -7.9 -58.7 21.