Oh I don't know, maybe the fact he has yet to ever do it? There will be do or die moments in the playoffs where he will have to put the team on his back and score a td in the red zone for us to win. Can he? Absolutely. Will he? That's the 64 million question. He has yet to prove that he can take that next step in the playoffs. Until he does, color me skeptical, and I hope he proves me wrong.
This is a good example of how there are different types of football fans who view the game through fundamentally different lenses.
Some will not engage in predictive thought and will place arbitrary limits on players when they haven't done a particular thing. Some judge a player by his skill and on-field capability, others by box score stats.
Let me give an example.
Is Kenneth Walker capable of rushing for 200 yards in a game? Obviously, the answer is yes. But he hasn't done it yet. The opportunity needs to present itself. Even the best of all time don't do it often.
The same is true of Geno Smith. The answer to "is Geno Smith capable of throwing 4 touchdown passes in a game?" is very obviously "yes." This is despite the fact that his high mark in a game is 3 so far.
There is no glass ceiling where functionally sound quarterbacks are suddenly unable to throw touchdowns. There is no real barrier to 4 TDs. It's just a fairly rare occurrence in the modern NFL. No QB averages more than 2 per game now. No QB has more than 5 passing touchdowns through 2 games this year.
These imagined barriers only appear real when box score stats are the primary method of evaluation. Otherwise, it should be clear to everyone that using arbitrary single game touchdown totals as a predictor for postseason success is beyond silly. It's like judging a running back by their longest rush in a season, or their rushing TDs, instead of their yardage, YPA, and ball security. It makes absolutely no sense.
