No shit dude
Trent Dilfer is a superbowl winning starting qb, of course geno could do better with a better team?
Before you take my words out of context because it's very clear what you're doing, I'm not even remotely saying geno is a Dilfer level qb, I'm just using it as an example of how silly your position is.
I've said repeatedly, that while I'd like to move on from geno, it's age/salary while we're completely reshaping the team, NOT his play.
Your fervor of defending geno to the point of saying he did it DESPITE the receivers, is only slightly less absurd than the people pining for lock to replace him.
I'm not trying to take anything out of context and I'm not trying to single you out as much as i am speaking to the body of criticism that just doesnt make rational sense in many instances.
With respect to wideouts, Is it absurd to say Geno's completion percentage was lower than it could have been, if the receivers dropped the balls at the rate they did? This is universally talked about on seattle radio by Bump and Stacey, Brock, Dave... they've all commented on how down a year the wr corp had. i dont know what there is to dispute. unless somehow the names on the backs of the jersey's negate the fact that their drop rate was ninth worst.
And i'm not defending geno as much as im pointing out how absolutely hypocritical it is to one year, say the dude finished poorly, and blast him for it. and then the next year, when he finished strong, ignore it. How one year, he gets labeled, 'incapable of carrying the team', and the next, sets the NFL record for 4th qtr go ahead drives and the same critics say nothing. Or better, how the team finished with a winning record... and did so with one of the 3 worst rushing attacks in the league in terms of efficiency and utilization. How does that happen unless the QB is actually doing a pretty god job? Or how he repeatedly gets framed as not great at reading defenses or getting the ball out, when he was the 3rd most pressured qb in the league and STILL posted the 13th best qbr.
Broken record...
Or... how he posted the 13th best QBR, when playing behind the 27th ranked o-line, in front of the 29th ranked run game, across from the 30th ranked defense, and tossed passed to receivers who dropped them at the 9th highest rate. And yet its inconceivable to some that his ceiling can be higher than 13th best. Top 10 is 3 spots higher than 13. Is him improving 3 spots if the team improves on any of the areas they failed in that i mentioned, so far fetched? he already was the 8th best QB the year prior. Yet SOMEHOW the fact that he got an MVP vote is cast aside, the basically ouststanding stretches of play hes shown... all the positives are couched as 'yeah buts' and instead, hes labeled as 'average at best'.
And i say all that and ALSO maintain that the team needs to find its next Wilson or Hasselbeck. But the idea that Geno cant be the QB of this team until he proves otherwise is silly. And to date, he's shown he can win even when the pieces around him are questionable. NOT THE NAMES - THE PERFORMANCE ON THE FIELD.
And as to his age and salary, he has shown zero ill effect from 'age' and and its been pretty universally agreed to by folks who look at this kind of thing, whether in the media, or obviously from the FO, that his 30 mil salary is a bargain for his performance. And he's not signed until he's 40, he's signed through 2025. i could see it if he'd lost something off of his fast ball, or was no longer able to make certain throws. But thats unequivocally not true. he's rated in the top 10 in deep throw accuracy and is consistently rated highly in completing difficult throws. The argument that we should save money and sacrifice play at the position, or that there's some lineup of guys that can do what Geno has done under the circumstances he's done it for the pay he's doing it for is absurd.
if the argument is to draft Penix or Nix, thats not a dispute. get a guy if you can. But rationalizing that the QB in Seattle is somehow in desperate need of fixing because it aint gonna be better than it is because 'its Geno' ... or... plastering a ceiling above the dude when to date, he's had poor support around him in areas that have been statistically proven to have underperformed is doing so for the sake of doing it.
In my opinion.