I will gladly fall on the "2-14" sword this season. Hell 1-15 is fine with me. The Colts won what 1 or 2 last year and are probably better than we are right now.

A guy on the radio talked about the Manning passing academy today. He talked about this year's camp. He said Smith's footwork was better than expected. He also said Aaron Murray was the most pro ready QB at the camp. I guess he looked the best.

I still think Smith's feet will be the question as we get closer to the draft. I wouldn't take Murray because has not proven to be a good leader.

I'm just not ready to commit yet. It will be interesting to watch Mettenberger against Auburn this weekend. I think he's got the strongest arm college football has seen since Stafford... He's 6 ft. 5 inches 230 pounds. He's a junior and I think he'll come out if he has a good year. I think he'll be a better version of Ryan Mallet.

Murray is a better prospect than most give credit for on this board.

The only person who hates him as a prospect is Setsuna.

The anti-Matt Cassel.

I don't see any mention of "We" in there. "I" need to do a better job. "I" need to clean up mistakes.

Exactly what we don't have right now.

Drop the "probably." I'd love like shit to be the Colts right now.

There would be so much optimism and forward-thinking on this board that n00bs would think it's the ****ing competent version of WPI.

I watch him every week. I'd pass, he's way too streaky, and when he's off he's absolutely horrible.

I am a huge UGA fan but, I have seen him choke in the time of need several times. If he can't improve in this area this season, I wouldn't want him. That is a really big deal to me when evaluating QBs. They gotta be able to put the team on their shoulders at the end of games.

Far too many NFL games are decided in the 4th quarter.

Would you mind elaborating a bit more about what you mean by "off"?

Admittedly, you've seen more of the player than me, but what I've seen as someone who seems to be mechanically sound and consistent with his approach.

Plus, he has the requisite size and arm strength.

Did you watch the UGA/Mizzou game? Compare how he looked in the first half and the second half. Two different quarterbacks.

He does that all the time.

If it's not Creed, it's not white enough.

I'd agree with that. In fact, i don't think he's had rhythm once this year. I'm not sure what is up with him?

He's got the tools, I wonder how much the local idiot Bobo holds him back...?

**** Murray. He's one of those "next year" QBs.

He's grading out perfectly... in my heart.

<3

Of course.

His performance in that game did/does nothing to lower my evaluation of him as a prospect.

Who knows... What was up in the Mizzou game? We ran the spread most of the night. What was that? It's like he bought into the "old man football" comment or something. We need to run the ball and help Murray get comfortable. I really wish Bobo would go....

I have not seen him play. But this article right here makes me like the guy already. I will definately be looking to find the WV-Maryland game this weekend on TV.

:thumb:

Sounds familiar.

Exactly.

I'm on board with this guy.

why isnt my name on the OP

The play at 3:23, when have you ever once witnessed Matt Cassel make that play.

I'm not soldon the guy yet based on the LSU game, but I saw a gleem. Maybe the other videos would help make me a big fan. Mark me down as a fan of Geno's and really any QB.

Also would love an innovative young non tree coach, kinda like Haley without Dr. Evil as a GM.

He was 32 of 36 this year in a game, with 3 drops. Against air thats pretty good.


RGIII exploded with the TCU game last year. Smith needs that type of game this year.

LMAO

I got bored with adding names. I'll get them all loaded up eventually.

You may have also given me a "Geno Smith is good, but I don't really care, just give me a QB!" We have higher standards in this thread.

This.

I'll take the probably out of it.

One 2-14 season, with an addition of Geno Smith to this current roster and a new HC and GM

Don't you dare let the fence sitters in on this.

**** them.

They better understand the magnificence that is Geno Smith to even be considered to be on this list.

I demand qualifications from here on out.

Post a pic.

Post a vid.

List your undying love of GENO.

**** you fence sitting ****s.

Oh, and by the way, Geno Smith is total kick ass.

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He's not very eloquent, I hope he's smart to pickup a NFL offense.

Do I sense a fellow Creed fan?

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If only he could be as eloquent and smart-sounding as Matt Cassel.

Oh wait. Matt Cassel is a ****ing reerun.

Also, is he not eloquent because he talks like black people do?

RG3

Is there still room on the bandwagon?

Creed is my favorite.

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If his agent is smart he will try to base Smith's pay on the number of times he says "you know" during interviews.

Not defending his comments, but I'll add that my cousins attend WVU and Geno isn't regarded as the sharpest tool in the shed. However, your statement speaks volumes about Cassel.....I'll still take Geno any day of the week.

I'm not saying he is dumb but, if Pioli is here, he won't take a QB that isn't smart. You can bet the farm on that.

Oh by the way, I've been meaning to ask, who are you? You're way too ingrained in this place to only be a noob that registered last month. There's no way. Unless I'm missing something...

OMG, Sacc actually WANTS a ****ing QB.

The world...

has turned...

upside down.

Terps will have their hands full with Geno Smith, Mountaineers’ ‘Air Raid’ offense

Demetrius Hartsfield has faced plenty of top-flight quarterbacks in his collegiate career. By the Maryland linebacker’s estimation, West Virginia senior Geno Smith is far and away the best.

The Terrapins will have their hands full Saturday with the Mountaineers’s offense, which is averaging more than 600 yards and 55 points through two games this season. Smith, the program’s career passing leader, is among the early Heisman Trophy hopefuls.

With pass blocking that mirrors punt protection, West Virginia doesn’t use a tight end. The Mountaineers spread the field, so one missed tackle on the outside can turn into a 40- or 50-yard gain. Deep and athletic, their fourth or fifth receivers can out-sprint linebackers dropping into coverage, and they often utilize shovel passes underneath as pseudo-running plays.

Smith ranks second in the bowl subdivision with 408.50 total yards per game, including 411 passing yards and five touchdowns last weekend in a 42-12 blowout of James Madison at FedEx Field. That effort made him West Virginia’s career leader in completions and touchdowns, surpassing Marc Bulger, who attended Pittsburgh’s Central Catholic, Terps quarterback Perry Hills’s alma mater.

“He’s got a great arm, but he knows where to go with the ball,” Coach Randy Edsall. “And some of the throws he makes, there’s some good coverage, putting the ball right where it needs to be. I think his accuracy has improved since last year.

“When you watch the film, pretty much being in it as long as I’ve been in it, you can see the level of confidence, and you can see he’s playing with a tremendous level of it. We hope we can shake it a little bit, get where his confidence is off a little early. If we can disrupt him, that will be to our advantage.”

Smith is an experienced senior, while Hills will be making just his fourth collegiate start. During the weekly Big 12 teleconference, Mountaineers Coach Dana Holgorsen commended Smith for his offseason weight gains, which have bulked him up to 220 pounds.

“Those big quarterbacks, when you come, you have to come hard and make sure you put them down,” Terps defensive lineman A.J. Francis said.

Getting to Smith early and often will be a major part of Maryland’s game plan, though the veteran quarterback rarely strings together bad sequences, especially at home. He threw two interceptions in three games last season, twice on the road and once at home against LSU.

“Everybody just wants to beat him,” Hartsfield said. “It’s not like we’re putting him out in the spotlight like he’s the guy we have to beat, but we know that if he has a great game, their chances of winning are a lot higher. He’s the starting point.”

The Terps are banking on a repeat of the second half the last time these two teams met, and not the first. On Sept. 17, 2011 at Byrd Stadium, the Mountaineers took a 27-10 halftime lead, but managed just one touchdown and a field goal in the second half, and the Terps battled back from that early deficit and wound up losing 37-31. Smith finished 36 of 49 for 388 yards and one touchdown.

“If you hit a quarterback a bunch of times, sooner or later you’re going to get into his head. It doesn’t matter who you’re playing,” Francis said. “They don’t get hit all week in practice. If you hit him early, and make him know you’re there, he’ll start throwing the ball a little quicker, hopefully make some mistakes. That’s every quarterback.”

Smith thrives through the weapons around him, none more productive than receiver Tavon Austin, a Baltimore native who was a first-team All-American return specialist in 2011 and had 101 receptions for 1,186 yards and eight touchdowns his junior season.

The last time Maryland played in Morgantown, a 31-17 West Virginia victory, Austin and Smith teamed up for two early touchdowns as the Mountaineers scored the game’s first 28 points. With that unorthodox attack, dubbed “Air Raid,” West Virginia can effectively operate its rushing game via short, shuttle passes. Stopping those, Francis said, will be top priority.

“You know they’re going to throw the ball,” he said. “They’re going to get some plays because they have so many athletes and a great quarterback. But they get a lot of yardage on quick shuttle passes that are like run plays to Tavon or others. It ends up being a rush, and they’ll get rush yardage.

“You know they’re going to pass, but if they can run the ball, you’re in trouble because their playbook is wide open.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...rss=rss_sports

Smith brushes off some big hits

WEST VIRGINIA Mountaineers QB, offense tuning up for rigors of Big 12

Of all the things quarterback Geno Smith did well Saturday night for No. 8 West Virginia, one factor that may prove beneficial against the more sizable Big 12 Conference defenses was his ability to elude sacks and withstand physical play.

Smith absorbed a few bone-jarring hits by James Madison, the first real evidence of his added strength from the offseason. But he always got a pass off.

"It's kind of a blessing. I think I got some strong bones," said Smith. "I just take those hits, I get up, my O-line they always come and ask me if I'm all right. They know I'm all right but it's just good they always ask me."

Smith added 25 pounds in the offseason.

"I've always taken hits and always been able to get up," Smith said. "I'm not a cold tub guy, a guy who needs a lot of treatment."

The most notable collision came just before halftime when Smith was hit hard from the blind side by a blitzing defensive back just seconds after getting off a downfield throw.

He ended up on the turf of FedEx Field but stood up and brushed himself off before the defender did.

The series ended two plays later with no points to show for it, a small victory for the Dukes.

But Coach Mickey Matthews, who dished significant praise Smith's way, said they just couldn't bring him down.

"Their quarterback, you just can't sack that guy," Matthews said. "He's quicker than our defensive linemen.

"When I was at Georgia we used to play Peyton Manning and that was the biggest problem we had with him. We couldn't sack Peyton because he was bigger than our defensive linemen.

"That's what Geno is. We're big up front defensively, but we couldn't bring him down."

Coach Dana Holgorsen, in his postgame remarks, noted that Smith will have to get better at recognizing the blitz when the team faces physically stronger defenses down the road.

"When you face some of the D-linemen we're going to be facing, those aren't going to be as easy to get out of," Holgorsen said. "It was the first time we faced a lot of blitz in a long time. We're going to be able to learn from that. He needs to do a better job of getting the ball out of his hands when they're doing a lot of blitzing.

"He's not going to be able to sit there and scramble for five seconds."


Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/...#ixzz272drUv5K

Working ourselves up over a QB we will more than likely never even sniff in the upcoming draft.

Memories...

Not labeled as a running QB, Smith improvises


West Virginia senior avoids pressure, completes high percentage of throws

Argue if you want that the statistics posted by West Virginia’s Geno Smith deserve a disclaimer.

Still, the senior quarterback’s tuneups against Marshall and James Madison were impressive, nonetheless.

“If he can continue to play like that against better competition then it’s something special,’’ Mountaineers coach Dana Holgorsen said Monday on the Big 12 teleconference.

Smith has proven he can make special plays. At times, he does so on his own.

Through a 2-0 start that included blowout wins against Marshall and James Madison, Smith improvised to avoid pressure. More so, in fact, than what Holgorsen would prefer since the coach counted at least five would-be sacks averted by his slippery quarterback.

“He’s getting out of situations that are going to be harder to get out of,’’ Holgorsen said.

The result is a 408.5-yard average in total offense, which ranks Smith second nationally. He is 66 of 75 passing for 734 yards. Quick math reveals he has the same number of touchdown throws (nine) as incompletions.

“He’s improved, and he’s been practicing like this since the beginning of August,’’ Holgorsen added. “Watching him translate out there in a game has been fun to watch and coach.’’

Although the scrambles Smith made give him 83 yards rushing through two games, Holgorsen resisted any dual-threat terminology.

“If we wanted to we could do some things that would give him the label of being a running quarterback. It’s just not what our offense is,’’ Holgorsen said.

“We’re not going to work on zone reads and stuff like that. He’s getting rushing yards because he’s doing a good job of getting out of bad situations in the pocket and extending the play.’’

That's a great tape, but I see the potential for early-era Sanchez with this guy too.

LMAO What does this even mean?

Did you watch any Sanchez/USC tape evar? I see similarities.

I don't. They are completely different systems offensively. Smith also seems to have a better arm and pocket presence.

Really, the similarity is that they both play QB IMO.

No.

It's not the system. It's the tendencies and the overall skill-level.

There are similarities.

No. There aren't.

Neither are white.

You must mean that he looks like he could win a playoff game.

LMAO

Have to disagree. Different throwing motion, different footwork within the pocket, different release point. If by tendencies you mean being good college QBs, then yes. Overall skill-level, Geno is probably close to what people though Sanchez's ceiling was before he was drafted.

I can go more in-depth if you'd really like but I don't want to make myself watch film of Mark Sanchez.

Ever.

Not really. These are just two very different players. Sanchez was/is athletic for a pocket-passer. Smith is simply athletic as shit.

Smith has more concerns with footwork and arm angle, while Sanchez has less "feel."

Both were elite prospects, but Smith's athleticism makes him more dynamic on tape in many ways.

Didn't mean athletic ceilings. Overall production. My bad for not clarifying.

Pretty much this.

Look at the video I posted from his sophomore year, which was the year before Holgorsen was hired.

Dude is legit. He's got the skill set to be a franchise QB.

He's going to put up insane numbers because of Holgorsen's offense this season, but it's not the system that makes this guy so desirable. It's that he possesses and displays the necessary traits that makes a great quarterback.

Geno Smith is really a good football player.

Geno rapes Maryland tomorrow on FX. I'll be watching.

I only watched 2 or 3 USC games in 08 and I'm betting that's more than you watched.


Geno Smith and Sanchez similar... ROFL

Their judgment, at the college level, looks about the same to me.

EXCEPT, Sanchez looked a wee bit smarter.

I think we've cursed Geno Smith you guys.

Smith is pretty meh against some real competition. He is staring at receivers and making lots of overthrows and not making quick decisions. There are some really good throws in there as well though.

Looks very smooth in the pocket. Can really spin it. Good arm strength. Maryland is pressuring him a lot and he's sticking in there

Like what I seen so far. Didn't see the first half. Better the Cornhole.

Guy has ridiculous pocket awareness

yeah he doesnt like going full fetal like our qb

This is what I have noticed, pocket awareness and footwork, 2 things the Chiefs haven't had for a while.

Keeps his eyes downfield at all times

perfect strike down the middle of the field for a 35 yard td on 3rd and 15

he is so calm in the pocket it is awesome...always has his eyes up scanning the field

26/38
320 yards
8.4 avg
3tds
0int

I'm not so sure that he isn't a better qb mechanical wise at this point than rgIII was this time last year. He's not as explosive as an athlete or has the arm rgIII did, but its not far off

What channel?

i'm all 'eers when it comes to Gino.

Better than Casselhole by quite a bit.

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