It was Partly his fault.
Even I admitted that (somewhat) that he could've stepped up in the pocket a bit (though they should've doubled Bosa).
But most of the fault laid at the feet of Kubiak calling a stupid gameplan.
So we're not allowed to praise our own QB?
Oh I'm sorry...He's not your boy Geno,
@keasley45 . I forgot.
Because Sam is 7 years younger and was just coming off a near-
MVP season. He still has some upside whereas Geno at his age in this point of his career is what he is. That's just the reality of things.
BTW, the jury is still out on Darnold despite the encouraging signs but even if he doesn't work out, the deal to acquire him still was the right one because Geno wanted OUT so he can go play for Daddy Carroll. And we got a draft pick out of it.
Pretty childish response Glenwo. Geno wasn't 'my boy'. I was as dubious as anyone to whether he could actually be a starter in the league before he did . I just didn't subscribe to the notion that he couldn't do it because of what he did when he was with the Jets or the fact that he wasn't given a starting nod over Eli Manning and Philip Rivers.
It's comical how you accuse me for blindly following Geno, I guess claiming I made excuses for him at every turn, yet some of the same logic I applied to him and his path to starting here or even some of his failures in games, you seem happy to apply now with Darnold. Me? I never once said Darnold couldn't succeed here. Nor have I painted his failures entirely his own. It wasn't me who looked at the Jets as a failure of an organization and difficult place for a QB to succeed for one QB who started there but not the other. They both started in a shitty spot and could be forgiven for not lighting up the place and even failing. But that simple benefit wasn't granted to Geno. Quite the contrary. It was held up constantly as proof that he was never any good and as the baseline to which he eventually would return. And every failure was evidence that he in fact was 'reverting' to his true self.
It's pretty obvious why so much hate surrounded the dude. Even moreso now that the guy that follows him gets literally the same defense from the GeNos that some here provided Geno when he didn't do everything right.
Didn't matter that arguments like Geno being a red zone failure were countered by facts that unequivocally showed he was not (32 TDs to 3 INTs) over the 2 years before Grubb came in and shat the bed. Didn't mean he didn't throw picks last year. He did. But how you saw it was a matter of whether or not you considered we were running an offense orchestrated by an OC who was so bad he will never have a job in the league again.
Errant snaps by the center that killed drives in the redzone.. Geno's fault. Center stepping on Geno's feet and killing a dive ... Geno's fault. Maybe not exactly in the moment, but if you wanted to see him as someone who was who he was at the Jets, it was better to ignore context, circumstances and fact and just pound the drum of ' he sucks' and chastise anyone who defended his play as a Geno apologist. That's just a couple of examples without going into INTs, a subject that even guys like Daniel Jeremiah stated pretty flatly were not so much a function of Geno as they were circumstances in game and the shit show offense Grub had us running.
All that to say just because I didn't worship at the feet of Me3 and called him out as a guy who succeeded despite being unable to read defense even before he left here (a fact now the whole world sees), it didn't make me the hater I and others were painted to be. Just like objectively looking at Geno through the same lens I looked at Wilson and evaluating his actual performance in context with the other variables at play doesnt make me a Geno apologist.
So, fan however you want. Despise what player you will, worship whoever you want. I don't care and am not trying to change your or anyone else's mind. Just keep my name out of your posts when you do so. I get responding to a post I make but I would think you could do that without mischaracterizing my position or insulting. It's childish. Fact is, there are facts and there are opinions, both are legitimate things in rooting for a team but they ARE different things. There are perspectives on every subject ever created. Have yours, but acknowledge others without the weird need to be condescending when you do so or dragging down their position simply because you can't or won't spend the time to actually (genuinely) consider it. I know the world we live today in seems to reward division and derision, but I would think on a fan site, we could all at least be on the same side, whatever our different perspective are.
I think most of us (all of us now that Sam is here and Geno isn't) want Seattle to win and the QB to succeed. Leave it at that.
