TRADE ALERT: Seahawks sending Geno Smith to Raiders
PFT Live with Mike Florio
Mike Florio
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🗓️ 8 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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The Seahawks are trading QB Geno Smith to the Raiders in exchange for a 2025 third-round pick. Mike Florio breaks down the news and wonders if the next domino to fall could be Sam Darnold to Seattle.
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| 0:00.0 | I definitely didn't expect to be doing this on a Friday night. |
| 0:12.5 | I was minding my own business, as I usually do. |
| 0:14.7 | I was actually on my workout bike playing a little madden. |
| 0:18.3 | Text came through NFL media reporting. |
| 0:22.2 | The stunner so far of this pre-free agency process, |
| 0:26.4 | Gino Smith, Seahawks quarterback, very accomplished in his eventual stint |
| 0:31.9 | as a year-to-year starting quarterback, traded to the Las Vegas Raiders. |
| 0:42.6 | Workout ended, quick, upstairs, to the Las Vegas Raiders. Workout ended. Quick, upstairs to the copy-paste snarky comment cave. Then shower, toupee adjusted. Here we go with a little pf, TPM. I got a lot to |
| 0:48.7 | say about this. And I want to make sure I hit all of it. I've got no notes, no script, no teleprompter. |
| 0:55.8 | Step one, I think back to last week at the scouting combine. |
| 1:01.0 | And I found the clip. |
| 1:04.2 | Chris Sims and I were interviewing Seahawks' GM John Schneider. |
| 1:07.5 | And we asked him point blank, is there any doubt that Gino Smith will be the starting quarterback in 2025? |
| 1:17.7 | Said Schneider? |
| 1:19.5 | No. |
| 1:21.3 | 10 days later? |
| 1:23.2 | Yes. |
| 1:24.7 | And when you look at all the things that coach Mike McDonald has said about Gino Smith, |
| 1:30.3 | we want him. We can win a championship with him. He's our guy. New offensive coordinator |
| 1:35.1 | Clint Kubiak said that Gino was a huge draw. Now, now, it's possible that this was all one big |
| 1:43.5 | grift aimed at finagling a third round pick from the Raiders in trade. |
| 1:50.1 | That this was all a setup. |
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