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Why Geno Smith fell in the draft
I've seen a couple other posts about this... but this probably deserves it's own thread considering how many hours we've wasted arguing about the guy. This is the first article I've seen theorizing why Geno fell in the draft. Time will tell whether it's accurate.
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I know you'd like to conveniently ignore everything besides his fluke 2011 season, but Smiff was so bad at one point that Niner fans were cheering David Carr's name during games and demanding that some no-name scrub Nate Davis get playing time over him.
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05-02-2013, 01:28 PM | #380 |
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It seems Geno was made more than he is, by his receivers, not the other way around.
He did a lot of dumping balls off while the receivers created YAC inflating his numbers. |
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05-02-2013, 03:55 PM | #383 |
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If it's true that Geno has a bit of an attitude problem (and there's a lot of smoke leading you to believe it's a bigger problem than we thought), then I really don't care if we passed him up. I was all about grabbing him at 1.1. But it's pretty amazing how stuck people are on trying to defend the guy. There's plenty of smoke that leads you to believe maybe he's not the character guy we thought he was.
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Here's a little something from over at JetsInsider, to help stoke the conversation:
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05-02-2013, 05:10 PM | #386 |
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Maybe the Jets will bring in Terrell Owens. By mid-season would should hear quite a bit about Geno.
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05-02-2013, 05:12 PM | #387 |
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If all of this new information is true, then it makes a bunch of sense.
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05-02-2013, 05:20 PM | #388 |
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Really, all we outside prognosticators can do is look at the tape and watch the combine. It's not like we have access to all the information. Based on the tape, I would have taken Geno at 1.1. No shame in admitting it. At least I advocated for a position and put in the work to back it up. People here are renowned for coming out of the woodwork after the fact and sniping those who actually do their own "work." **** em.
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2001 traded our first round pick for Trent Green. It was an alright move, not great because Drew Brees was the quarterback that was there for our pick and was top of our draft board. So the Chiefs ****ed up there. 2005, Rodgers fall was pretty unexpected. Most mocks had him going top 10 at the very least. Derrick Johnson was a major woody for everybody and we were duped into thinking we needed to tweak the defense for a Super Bowl run. Short sighted move on the Chiefs part though but that was the Vermeil years in general. 2008 taking Albert over Flacco. Flacco was considered a reach by many. Not to mention the Chiefs weren' done with the Brodie experiment just yet. 2009 major **** up with the Cassel trade. Worthless POS from February 28, 2009 when it happened. ****ed up everything. Chiefs are lucky we didn't get into major salary cap issues because of it. Giving 63 million to Cassell and then 57 to Jackson was stupid. Starting quarterback contracts are a given so that isn't that bad even if Sanchez would have gotten the 57 that Jackson got, we could have used Cassel's contract to help improve the team in other areas such as a 3-4 DE, etc. That would have been around 12 millon a year. Not to mention we could have gotten a productive player at the top of round 2 in the draft. Good chance we could have been better because we couldn't have gotten any worst than we are right now. Brees, Rodgers, Flaaco, and Sanchez. Thats the 4 we had a shot and passed and out of those it was really just Brees and Sanchez, who we passed on for Green and Cassel. |
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No, we flat out passed on Flacco and Rodgers. No question. Our GMs were bright enough that they thought we couldn't use a talented QB, despite the fact we had a crusty-ass vet (like the Packers did with Favre at the time) and NOTHING at QB in the case of the 2008 draft.
Straight up **** ups.
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