He was top 5 for half a season after being in the leage for 10 years. He is now averaging a touchdown a game with a ton of weapons. What happened the second half of last year when he wasn't nearly as good?
Again I think Geno is better than many believe, including myself at times but I seriously doubt Brock puts Geno in the top 5 category as that is ridiculous and literally no one in the country mentions him in that capacity.
I'll just agree to disagree as I don't see him as a top 5 guy. if he was a top 5 guy why did he sign in Seattle for a lesser contract? He could of written his own check if the league saw him as top 5/borderline elite.
I listen to Brock a ton and I have never heard him speak that highly so I'm curious why he changed his tune all of the sudden. Griff who is about as good as anyone at breaking down film is actually supportive of Waldron. But again to be fair I will try to find that episode and listen to it. Brock also calls Wilson elite during his time in Seattle which you have disagreed with in the past so with your reasoning you need to change that opinion
Brock also changed his opinion before Russ left going as far back as 2020 saying he was barely playing even 'good' football, and has been pretty honest about him since then.
As to what happened to Geno last year? I answered that a few times . His 'regression' coincided with the decline in performance from our rookies at tackle (moreso Cross) and an interior line that was abysmal down the stretch. Again. That's not speculation or opinion. Geno played with an o line that ranked between 25 and 32 to end the season last year.
As for Geno' supporting cast after mid season and from the Tampa game on , KW3s yards per game were:
17 week 10
26 week 11
36 week 12
0 week 13
47 week 14
He also posted a 51 yard game in week 8 followed by a 109 yard game and during that span, before the O line's wheels fell off, Geno was posting over 100 ratings pretty consistently.
Excluding the 109 yard game, and thats 108 yards across 6 games, or less than 20 yards per game. With those numbers, Geno was still killing it.
To start the season, our O line was middle of the pack.
By mid season, they were 22nd.
By year end, they were 27th.
How can you couch Geno's performance as regressing when after the halfway point, he was left high and dry by his run game, and by year end, had one of tge worst O line's in the game?
He was top 5 for half a season after being in the leage for 10 years. He is now averaging a touchdown a game with a ton of weapons. What happened the second half of last year when he wasn't nearly as good?
Again I think Geno is better than many believe, including myself at times but I seriously doubt Brock puts Geno in the top 5 category as that is ridiculous and literally no one in the country mentions him in that capacity.
I'll just agree to disagree as I don't see him as a top 5 guy. if he was a top 5 guy why did he sign in Seattle for a lesser contract? He could of written his own check if the league saw him as top 5/borderline elite.
I listen to Brock a ton and I have never heard him speak that highly so I'm curious why he changed his tune all of the sudden. Griff who is about as good as anyone at breaking down film is actually supportive of Waldron. But again to be fair I will try to find that episode and listen to it. Brock also calls Wilson elite during his time in Seattle which you have disagreed with in the past so with your reasoning you need to change that opinion
Why does his being in the league for 10 years have anything to do with anything?
It's what he's doing now that matters. I frankly don't care if he was 0-50 before coming here. If he put up good stats and results, because he put in the work and sonething 'clicked' that's all good by me. Past performance isn't always a predictor of future results. I was fired from my first job in design and 14 years later was the boss of the guy who fired me.
2nd, Genos drop in performance last year coincided with the implosion of our o-line. Theres a reason Blythe isnt with us now. But before the wheels came entirely off, he was literally the only good thing we had. From weeks 8 to 14, with the exception of 1 game, kenneth walker was giving us 20 yards a game.
Weeks 8 to 14, (during Kenneth's down period) Geno's completion percentages were:
67.7
76
69
72
72
58
70
During that span, his td to int ratio was 15 to 5.
So to recap, for the majority of the stretch hes been seen as regressing in, he threw at a better than 67% completion rate, with zero rushing help. Actually, we had the worst rushing attack in the league when geno was posting 67% plus completion and a 3:1 td to in rate.
Over that same stretch, an o-line that started the season ranked middle of the pack was around 22 by mid season and finished the year 27th.
It seems EVERY Geno critic is fixated on a perception that things werent great for the vast majority of the 'stretch' when in fact, with the exception of the last 3 games, he was very very good.
And in the last 3 games , with an O line that was a turnstile, his completion percentage did drop to 63, 62, and 61 respectively and his TD to int rate went to 4 to 3.
But during that 3 game stretch, he faced thrme Rams, Chiefs and Jets, teams that sacked him 9 times. The Jets posted the 3rd best D against the pass last year.
And during that stretch, opposing teams smelled blood in the water with our O line as bad as it was and pressures the qb a season high 24% of the time.
his percentage of bad throws did go up from weeks 11 on, but I don't honestly see how you can divorce that stat from the fact that 23 of his sacks occurred during weeks 16, 12, 13, 10, 17, 11 and 14.
That's half his sacks over 7 games... to close the season?
None of that is to say that Geno didn't take a step back over the last half. His bad throw percentage went up, but that again coincided with a period that saw his 6 games where he saw the most pressure.
So all in all, I get the ( man I wish he could play a bit better sometimes) feeling.
But NONE of his regression is in a vacuum. And it all either saw him STILL performing well when his backfield gave him zero support, or saw him drop in performance when his line entirely folded.