Playing backup to a Quarterback who's never (until last season) really been hurt, comes into a game against THE RAMS, he comes off the bench with zero FOR REAL time warmup, has to shake the rust off call on muscle memories & mentally process the fact that you have to go immediately into overdrive.
Having sat behind Russ for a couple seasons, Geno has no doubt picked up >SOME< of Russ's play, not that he could execute most of what Wilson was doing, he'd still be able to make a decent showing to finish that LOST game.
I think that being Wilson's backup for a couple seasons, most of his time playing for the Jets became old news.
I believe that is why Pete & Co. are giving him the benefit of the doubt in this competition with Drew Lock.
I'm holding my verdict until I see if Geno can 'Man-Up', & reinvigorate, I have NO ILLUSION that he is going to be the QB of the future for the Seahawks.
Agree. Who Geno is now is an unknown. Sure, you can get a sense of some of his traits and tendencies from tape 6 years ago, but he's spent as much time watching Russ as he has starting when he came into the league.
Not saying the guy is the next coming or the savior of the franchise, but what he has shown through this last preseason game in Hawks blue is more evolved than what he was before, easily.
And the thing is, if you took the name and number off of his jersey, there'd be a lot less criticism being tossed around re his ability. He hasn't shown the ability to REALLY get things going yet (maybe in the end, he never will). But he also hasn't shown that he can't read a defense, or that he can't make the gimme throws, or that he can't make some higher difficulty passes. The latter 3 things, he's done. I don't know why his most recent showings woukd be discredited for play that he put on tape in 2015.
He might not be our next franchise dude, but he also hasn't proven that we can't win with him. The loss against the Steelers is hard to pin on Geno alone. If its his fault because it was his first start and he wasn't able to run the entire playbook, I guess you can fault him. Same with the Saints. And he didn't lose the game against the Rams, he just couldn't win it because Tyler slipped getting a ball that he would have otherwise caught.
Maybe the offense looks slower with Geno, because , well... he's slower to read coverages or playing it Ultra conservative. But even if that's the case, it wouldn't be illogical to assume that running the same stuff, week after week, wouldn't speed up his processing. Or, that with a few games under his belt, that he'd be more comfortable hitting passes like the one he threw to Fant last week.
Whatever the eventual outcome is of him under center, I wish we could all just pull a T.O. and realize that 'that's our QB, man'.
If he flames out, let him flame out. If he can't lead the team, pull him and let Lock start. But at least evaluate the dude fairly for what he's shown on the field. The off the field antics and Twitter posts... that's some BS on his part.
His game? Let it speak for itself. ... as in the plays he's making now. In games. For the Seahawks. Not some BS from a lifetime ago.
