I'm not a fan of this at all. Geno has been weighed and measured, he's spent years playing in the NFL. Geno is a backup tier player. He has a place in the NFL in that capacity, but as a starter? We know what he can do.
I really think Pete needs to role with Lock. I do think that Geno won the competition fairly. Geno, clearly is the more refined of the two as a passer. Lock pre-determines where he's going to throw the ball and stares down his receivers. Lock also missed some really basic blitz recognition. Geno was put in the very same circumstance, identified the blitz and shifted the protection.
That being said, Lock has more physical skills than Geno and he's younger. He's going to lose you more games in the short term, but that it's worth it to see if you can get anything out of Lock.
I personally don't think Lock will ever be very good, but at least he's young and has elite physical traits. A team like the Seahawks is not going to be competitive and because they're not going to be competitive, they need to go with the young gun.
I agree with what you are saying in principle, but I don't know how we can be more competitive with Lock when he hasn't yet been able to outplay Geno.
I think the mistake we make here is that we are assuming that if Lock can't win the position in the preseason, that the experiment is over. We are drawing a line that I don't think the front office is.
I think in their mind, Lock is a project that had potential but needs work and time. He didn't do it in the preseason. Doesn't mean that in week 10, of Geno goes down, that by then, he won't have grasped the entire offense and be capable of flourishing in it.
But even that doesn't mean we won't draft a franchise guy next year. We should and likely will. And whoever that guy is will compete and either beat Lock Or Geno before the season, or sit and watch for a bit while he gets up to NFL speed.
This is a marathon, not a sprint.
And going the route of a 'Tavaris Jackson' in a gap year is completely logical if there aren't any other long term candidates fornthe position you feel are worth investing in.
Garapolo might be 'better' but not worth the cash and injury history. Mayfield might have been am upgrade as well, but not the type of QB the offense wants. Andnits obvious they preferred the talent in next year's draft to this.
So it's Geno, then Lock off the bench if necessary. And that's 2022. It's no different than what it looked like it would be at the start of the offseason, post trade. I did think Lock would show better than he had, but that doesn't mean he still won't. He just hasn't yet. Maybe he never will. But it's all immaterial in terms of the future at the moment. What happens next will be determined by how the season plays out. Either Lock or Geno will be here next year alongside a rookie. Which of them(Lock or Geno)? We don't know. And how long whichever of them is here stays in front of that rookie, depends on what they do this season.
That's about where we are. It's not good, bad, right or wrong. It just is.
