Matt39 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Geno Smith's draft fall to the New York Jets has claimed a victim other than Tim Tebow: Smith's agency. Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News writes that Smith believed he "would be and should be" the No. 1 overall pick in the draft. When he didn't make the first round, the agents paid the price.Liz Mullen of Sports Business Journal reports that Smith fired Select Sports, the agency representing him throughout the draft process. By league rule, he can't hire another agent for another five days. This will open up to Smith to easy criticism: It's not like the agents are at fault for his draft day fall, and it looks like he's taking it out on them. But that's overly simplistic and sympathetic to the agents. Sports agents often make big promises they can't keep. We don't know what transpired between Smith and his agents, but he's well within his rights to fire them if they didn't deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faba Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Give me a break - go back to school and get a journalism degree Manish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Crusher Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Jets stole this kid. Best revenge? HOIST THE LOMBARDI GENO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HessStation Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Holy **** this kid is awesome!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Agents are full of poop-SHOCKING! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Crusher Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Agents are full of poop-SHOCKING! I guess she didn't have him at hello. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faba Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 He is trying to make Smith look bad when Smith is trying to get what is best for his career Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity28 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Circus!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitonti Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 if his agents told him he was going 1 overall they deserve to be fired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleedin Green Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 How dare anyone fire a person/group they are paying for a service, due to them feeling the person/group is not performing that service to their satisfaction. Blasphemy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyHector Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 How dare anyone fire a person/group they are paying for a service, due to them feeling the person/group is not performing that service to their satisfaction. Blasphemy! How long before the breaking story of Geno not leaving additional gratuity on top of the 18% automatically added for his party of 12 at <insert name of Manhattan eatery>? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolot Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 In other news,.Manish reporting the Charlestown Chiefs moving to Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Schroy Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 He should have hired Jerry McGuire. Bob Sugar lies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorGato Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Give me a break - go back to school and get a journalism degree Manish Seriously - what a sh*t slinger this guy has turned into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity28 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Manishcus!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadwayJoe12 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 For what it's worth, via Geno on Sirius: QB Geno Smith on Firing Agent: "I don't want to shed too much light on it. It's not because of whole draft experience." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonehands Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 If his agents advised him to skip the Senior Bowl, they should be fired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorGato Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 If his agents advised him to skip the Senior Bowl, they should be fired. Completely agreed here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurking Troll Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 What an idiot, he was lucky to get drafted in the second round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbanmadmike1 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Who cares if he fired his agent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gangrene Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Geno Smith Fires Agent Due To Draft Slide BySeth Carson April 30, 2013 2:47 pm Geno Smith just showed the fans and his critics that he deserved to fall to the 2nd round before being selected, due to personal issues that dropped his stock. Word was going around the war rooms that Geno Smith had a selfish attitude and poor ways of handling disappointments. A franchise quarterback doesn't blame others for his mistake or failures. A franchise quarterback is accountable and holds themselves responsible if they don't reach expectations, which in turn tends to limit team turmoil, which the Jets have already had their fill. The agent wasn't at fault for Geno Smith falling into the second round, they weren't the ones playing the games each weekend, doing the interviews and workouts in front of NFL scouts in order to be properly placed on the draft boards. Smith comes from an Air Raid offense which is known not to produce QBs that last long in the NFL. That was already working against Smith, but he did well at the combines and pro day, but it was his attitude that made his stock drop, and after firing his agent for not being the top overall pick, it shows signs of immaturity which is a turnoff for any teams intending on drafting him. How Geno Smith expected to be taken first overall in the draft, after the Chiefs had already acquired Alex Smith, further showcases menta issuesl and personality problems. His attitude thus far mimics that of another QB that had some of the same issues, Ryan Leaf. This is an unfortunate blow to the Jets organization and it's fans. Here they drafted Smith and released Tebow marking the end of the failed Sanchez and Tebow experiment. Now they aren't even a week removed from the draft and Geno Smith decides to publicly prove his critics were correct. Which is exactly why he wasn't drafted in the first round. Now, thanks to him outwardly showcasing those immature issues, the Jets and their fans may have to endure one more year of who is the starting QB. Earlier in the offseason, I predicted Geno Smith was going to be the biggest bust in the draft, and after firing and placing the blame on his agent for not being the first overall pick when the Chiefs had Alex Smith locked as the starter, he just gave an early indication that he indeed has bust written all over him. Sorry Jets fans. You deserved better than this from your next "franchise QB." Best of luck next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh4dy15 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Geno Smith Fires Agent Due To Draft Slide By Seth Carson April 30, 2013 2:47 pm Geno Smith just showed the fans and his critics that he deserved to fall to the 2nd round before being selected, due to personal issues that dropped his stock. Word was going around the war rooms that Geno Smith had a selfish attitude and poor ways of handling disappointments. A franchise quarterback doesn't blame others for his mistake or failures. A franchise quarterback is accountable and holds themselves responsible if they don't reach expectations, which in turn tends to limit team turmoil, which the Jets have already had their fill. The agent wasn't at fault for Geno Smith falling into the second round, they weren't the ones playing the games each weekend, doing the interviews and workouts in front of NFL scouts in order to be properly placed on the draft boards. Smith comes from an Air Raid offense which is known not to produce QBs that last long in the NFL. That was already working against Smith, but he did well at the combines and pro day, but it was his attitude that made his stock drop, and after firing his agent for not being the top overall pick, it shows signs of immaturity which is a turnoff for any teams intending on drafting him. How Geno Smith expected to be taken first overall in the draft, after the Chiefs had already acquired Alex Smith, further showcases menta issuesl and personality problems. His attitude thus far mimics that of another QB that had some of the same issues, Ryan Leaf. This is an unfortunate blow to the Jets organization and it's fans. Here they drafted Smith and released Tebow marking the end of the failed Sanchez and Tebow experiment. Now they aren't even a week removed from the draft and Geno Smith decides to publicly prove his critics were correct. Which is exactly why he wasn't drafted in the first round. Now, thanks to him outwardly showcasing those immature issues, the Jets and their fans may have to endure one more year of who is the starting QB. Earlier in the offseason, I predicted Geno Smith was going to be the biggest bust in the draft, and after firing and placing the blame on his agent for not being the first overall pick when the Chiefs had Alex Smith locked as the starter, he just gave an early indication that he indeed has bust written all over him. Sorry Jets fans. You deserved better than this from your next "franchise QB." Best of luck next season. LMFAO Who the **** cares what this dickhead has to say?! All they do is bash everything the Jets do on that Football Nation site. Garbage article from garbage writer on a garbage site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaumerJet Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 This just in from NFL.Com: Geno Smith reportedly fires agent after fall to N.Y. Jets By Gregg Rosenthal Around The League Editor Published: April 30, 2013 at 01:04 p.m. Updated: April 30, 2013 at 02:59 p.m Geno Smith's fall to the New York Jets on Day 2 of the 2013 NFL Draft has claimed a victim other than Tim Tebow: Smith's agencyLiz Mullen of Sports Business Journal reported Tuesday that Smith fired Select Sports, the agency representing him throughout the draft process. By league rule, he can't hire another agent for another five days. Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News wrote that Smith believed he "would be and should be" the No. 1 overall pick in the draft. When he didn't make the first round, the agents paid the price. This will open up the former West Virginia quarterback to easy criticism: It's not like the agents are at fault for Smith's draft-day fall, and it looks like he's taking it out on them. But that's overly simplistic and sympathetic to the agents. Sports agents often make big promises they can't keep. We don't know what transpired between Smith and his agents, but Smith is well within his rights to fire them if they didn't deliver. UPDATE: Smith told SiriusXM NFL Radio on Tuesday that the firing had nothing to do with the draft process, but he didn't want to go into further detail. Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000165513/article/geno-smith-fires-agents-after-falling-to-new-york-jets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMC Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 The agents should be fired for having him in the green room without a verbal assurance from a team that they'd take him in the 1st round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadwayJoe12 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 What's absolute bullsh*t about Rosenthal and all these articles, well, besides the fact that they completely fabricated Geno's reasoning for the firing based on total conjecture, is that instead of removing their article in its entirety, they just put the little blurb at the bottom saying that everything they wrote was entirely made up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kay_gee Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 I just...I can't. Any other team drafts this guy, and these writers would be performing verbal fellatio on them. Instead we're less than a week into his career and getting stories about what an assh*le he is. I hate everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faba Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Other breaking news Geno Smith hates Pepsi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flgreen Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 The agents should be fired for having him in the green room without a verbal assurance from a team that they'd take him in the 1st round. Almost every prospect that is interviewed is given a verbal assurance that they will be taken. You hear it all the time in predraft interviews from players that the media think a team is interested in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro55 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 I could care less who he fires or hires, as long as next week there isn't a news conference with Revis's agent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleedin Green Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Interesting to note that all of these articles are citing that epic douche-nozzle Mehta as their lone source. There seems to be no other confirmation of this claim. Even more interesting since Mehta "heard" Geno was upset about his draft position and concluded that meant Geno solely fired his agents because he didn't go #1 overall. Quite a theory, particularly since Geno has already outright denied it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitonti Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 The agents work for geno. he's allowed to hire and fire them at his discretion. It's not a sign of loyalty or intelligence to stick with bad agents. I went to their page by the way and among their client photos is Reggie Tongue. Remember him? that's one of their 15 "clients" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SayNoToDMC Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 If his agents advised him to skip the Senior Bowl, they should be fired. This, they cost him money by blowing smoke up his ass and mishandling the pre draft process Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 I'm glad we fired tanny so when I turn on sports radio, its positive stuff now lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadwayJoe12 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Have at it: A source "close to Geno Smith" tells Deadspin he fired his agents because they "handled him like a potential high pick," advising him to do things like skip the Senior Bowl. Per the source, Smith was also upset his agents steered fellow clients Chase Daniel and Kevin Kolb to QB-needy teams, and "did nothing" to combat the negative press that came about following Pro Football Weekly's scathing scouting report. "(Geno) just felt like he needed a change, and that's the end of the story," the source said. Agent switches are rarely this scrutinized, but it's just a taste of what Smith will have to get used to in the New York market. Source: Deadspin If the truly did advise him to skip the senior bowl, then that is definitely a fire-able offence. I'm with Bit on this and believe unless you're an Andrew luck or RGIII and have nothing to prove, you go to these things and showcase yourself. It's tough to say with certainty, but I'd bet good money and say that if Geno went there and performed, we wouldn't be talking about our 2nd round QB right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyCarl40 Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Conor Orr@ConorTOrr10m Roc nation will rep Geno Smith #nyj Jigga what? Jigga who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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