There's really nothing else to be said. I think many of us know what Geno is. Above average when he's on and the O Line is in sync. Pretty bad when he's off. But, Pete didn't even have the nuts to let Lock play at the end when the game was way out of hand.
Yep. Geno is an outstanding QB if he has a great O-line that is opening holes for RBs and giving him 3+ second clean pockets consistently.
If he doesn't have that, Geno cannot function. Many average QBs can at least maintain a functional level of play, even when they do kinda suck under those circumstances. Geno completely falls apart.
For all his talk of desiring a physical team with a strong running game, PC has utterly failed in ever building a solid O-line.
He loved RW because RW was one of the best ever at negating the weakness of a crappy O-line. Prime RW covered up PCs incompetence. This board is full of revisionism, but that is the truth.
Geno's play correlates almost perfectly with O-line play on this team. Since we can have no expectation of consistently average or above O-line play, there is no way we can expect to have consistent play from Geno.
Geno + PC is not a good combination.
I expect the same exact thing we've seen for almost a decade - consistent mediocrity (via usually beating bad teams and mostly losing to good teams, sometimes in embarrassing fashion) and a 80%+ chance of playoffs with no hope of actually doing anything once there.
Many posters here saw.this well before I did, but I now see what they've been saying all along.
