flgreen Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Geno Smith, Jets can’t follow big win with dud again By Steve Serby October 21, 2013 | 7:40pm Modal Trigger Jets quarterback Geno Smith must start stringing good games together now. Photo: Charles Wenzelberg MORE FROM STEVE SERBY It is time for the Jets to get off the roller-coaster ride to mediocrity once and for all now that expectations have been raised, and that means it is time for Geno Smith to get off the roller coaster. On days and nights when he has been better than advertised, the Jets have been better than advertised. On days when he resembles the rookie he is, days that immediately follow those precocious days, the Jets are merely the best professional football team in New York. The Jets once again are talking about the importance of stacking wins, because they have learned the hard way you can beat Matt Ryan dramatically in his house, and it proves nothing when you lose to an 0-4 Steelers team in your house. And last I checked, they didn’t hand out the Lombardi Trophy for surviving Bill Belichick and Tom Brady at a roaring greenhouse known as JetLife Stadium. The Jungle in Cincinnati is a treacherous place to ask a kid quarterback to take the next step, but I’m asking anyway. The Geno roller coaster: Game 2: Three fourth-quarter picks. Game 4: Two picks, two fumbles. Game 6: Two picks. Get off the roller coaster, kid. Yes, he is growing up before our eyes, but he isn’t a grown-up yet — more like a teenager who just got his license taking Woody Johnson’s limo out for a ride with Rex Ryan’s permission. But with this young, ornery defense, this camaraderie and unity and hunger and defiance inside the walls of the Atlantic Jets Training Center, the bludgeoning, will-sapping Ground & Pound assault we witnessed Sunday, and the right leg of Nick Folk, the Jets have a chance to shock the world and blossom into a most improbable playoff team if the kid quarterback can only show up the rest of the way as … Robert Griffin III Lite … Russell Wilson Lite. He is not RGIII, of course. He is not RWI, and it is unrealistic to ask him to be either. It doesn’t mean he can’t be good enough to get this team to the playoffs in an NFL more unpredictable and parity-stricken than ever. “I want to challenge the guys to focus a bit more and a bit extra because we do have to put together some back-to-back wins,” Smith said. He can sure make all the throws, and he showed against the Patriots he can use his legs and be a dual threat at any given moment, which of course makes him the anti-Namath, anti-Testaverde and anti-virtually every other Jets quarterback over the years. “It’s always been a weapon and a part of my game,” Smith said. This doesn’t have to be a rebuilding year after all unless the kid quarterback makes it one. Even given the ups and downs, he has handled the disturbing dearth of playmakers around him better than Mark Sanchez did over the last two seasons. The market clearly doesn’t scare him … in fact, he carries himself as if he believes he was born for this grand stage. The game is never too big for him. Smith (eight touchdowns, 11 interceptions) has displayed a Jeteresque, an Eli-esque same-guy-every-day demeanor and a poise and maturity beyond his years. His answer was revealing when they asked him after the game what meaning it had for him personally to beat Brady. “There is none,” Smith said. “Tom Brady is one of the greatest quarterbacks to play this game and I’m a rookie quarterback in this league. So, the personal satisfaction for me is to get a victory for every single guy in that locker room and to be able to move on and put ourselves in a pretty good position moving forward.” He doesn’t go to pieces and become an emotional basket case when he throws a pick-six, and it is highly doubtful you will see him mimic a Harlem Globetrotter football behind-the-back move near the goal line, or anywhere else, for that matter. If your quarterback isn’t a fighter, you have no chance, and Smith is a fighter at the most important position on a team of fighters. He was asked how he was able to move on and get Logan Ryan’s first-half pick-six out of his mind, and said: “For one, it wasn’t the end of the game, and it’s not the end of the world. Those things happen. I think the best sign of the type of player you are is the way that you move on from those mistakes. I don’t want to make any mistakes, but if I ever do, I try and come back and respond and be better, and that’s just the type of mentality I took at the time.” The jury will be out on him for a long time. In the meantime, he’s 4-3. The Jets can’t depend on any genius coach getting a new rule wrong to be 5-3. “I think now’s the time for us to start developing that consistency that we’ve been talking about,” Smith said. Get off the roller coaster, kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flgreen Posted October 23, 2013 Author Share Posted October 23, 2013 WOW, Serby actually wrote a fair article? IMO I hope Marty has beat it into Smith's head that if nobody is open, don't force it. Take the ball down and run. That's kind of what it looked like Sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorGato Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 He won't. The Jets' D will do something this week that makes the "zomg totes overrated bro" thing a little louder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flgreen Posted October 23, 2013 Author Share Posted October 23, 2013 He won't. The Jets' D will do something this week that makes the "zomg totes overrated bro" thing a little louder. Hmmmm Does anyone here speak..................................................... IDK, what language is that Gato? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbatesman Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 tl;dr version: I've decided this is the most important game ever, so if the Jets lose, I'll be completely justified in gleefully ripping them for the rest of the season and declaring Geno to be a bust Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HessStation Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 **** you Steve Serby. What a stupid name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Jet Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 So Geno can't, lietrally CAN'T have a bad game this week on the road against the Bengals. So what happens if he does? Does he die? Do we Die? Serby dies? Apocolpyse? It's unfathomable that a rookie QB should have 4 bad games out of 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HessStation Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 So Geno can't, lietrally CAN'T have a bad game this week on the road against the Bengals. So what happens if he does? Does he die? Do we Die? Serby dies? Apocolpyse? It's unfathomable that a rookie QB should have 4 bad games out of 8. It's the biggest dick article I've read since the season started.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whodeawhodat Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Bengals defense is pretty tough, if Geno can put up points against them I will be a happy jets fan for our future. I hope Rex puts Ginger in the hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kay_gee Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 I stopped reading at "expectations have been raised." The Jets are slightly better than anyone paying any real attention expected. The only people who have raised their expectations are people who were swallowing the 3-13 crap being fed to them all summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whodeawhodat Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 where did T0m Shane have us at this point? his post was pretty spot on after 4 games this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitonti Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 he can't but he will Im in a confidence picks league no spread and 91% of the people on CBS picks site are picking the Bengals. this is what they do. Win a big one lose the next. they've alternated wins and losses all year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slats Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 No matter who the Jets played last week, this would be a tough game for them. Unfortunately, though, the narrative is available for guys like Serby because the Jets have a long history -one that predates Rex by decades- of following up an emotional win with a flat, losing performance. A win over the Bengals would be huge, and a loss would hardly be the end of the world. I think most fans would've taken a .500 record at the season's midpoint. No matter what happens, Serby will be there on Monday with some stale hyperbole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Crusher Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 he can't but he will Im in a confidence picks league no spread and 91% of the people on CBS picks site are picking the Bengals. this is what they do. Win a big one lose the next. they've alternated wins and losses all year. I would say this might be the least winnable game we have played so far. Considering how good their defense is and it being an away game. That being said it means nothing about Geno other than he is a rookie playing beyond expectations and nobdy should be surprised when he struggles. Serby is simply setting up his next article by making this into something it's not. He already has his next article written. "Geno and Jets continue roller coaster ride" Steve Serby. Transparent as a 7x wet T shirt on Crusher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycdan Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 I would say this might be the least winnable game we have played so far. Considering how good their defense is and it being an away game. That being said it means nothing about Geno other than he is a rookie playing beyond expectations and nobdy should be surprised when he struggles. Serby is simply setting up his next article by making this into something it's not. He already has his next article written. "Geno and Jets continue roller coaster ride" Steve Serby. Transparent as a 7x wet T shirt on Crusher. I propose an insta-ban for any nimrod who asks for a picture. Interesting point about the Bengals. I'm almost resigned to at least one or two turnovers on our end. I think the key to this one is harassing the crap out of Dalton so we can get a few of our own. And their O-Line just did a pretty good job against Suh and Fairley. So yeah...gonna be a tough one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Crusher Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 I propose an insta-ban for any nimrod who asks for a picture. Interesting point about the Bengals. I'm almost resigned to at least one or two turnovers on our end. I think the key to this one is harassing the crap out of Dalton so we can get a few of our own. And their O-Line just did a pretty good job against Suh and Fairley. So yeah...gonna be a tough one. Just cracks me up when a doosh like Serby is talking about Geno like he;s been in the league seven years instead of seven games. Oh yeah. Check your mail. ENJOY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadwayJoe12 Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 I know I've said it elsewhere and for a few weeks now, but I feel more confident about this game than against the Steelers or Pats. Outside of AJ Green, with which Cro matches up quite well against, I'll take my chances with Dalton beating us with Gresham, Eiffert and Gio. They're not too dissimilar from us; very sound defense, run the ball and take shots down field. So long as we fall no more than -1 on the turnover differential, I think this is a game that will once again be decided at the end of regulation. I look forward to seeing if they have Allen on Eiffert or Gresham and how they go about confusing Dalton, who's done nothing in my eyes to shake the notion that's a mental midget. Hopefully Geno can build on last week and the team can take care of the ball, consistency is the next step for our guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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