Why Did The Football World Reject Geno Smith?

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week we spoke to sportswriter Chuck Modiano about shock NFL MVP candidate Geno Smith, quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, Chuck predicted this for Smith when others did not. We talk about what he saw. Also I have a tribute to my favorite writer, the recently departed Mike Davis.

Chuck Modiano

Twitter: @ChuckModi1

https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/giants/insane-untapped-potential-giants-backup-qb-geno-smith-article-1.3653113

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Edge of Sports Podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week we are going to talk to someone I am going to call the Galileo of Sports Writers.
0:19.3	The person who saw something five years ago and said something that
0:23.4	was mocked and stood his ground and has now been vindicated. The issue was NFL quarterback
0:30.9	Gino Smith, the player who, when given an opportunity in Seattle this season, has gone from Journeyman quarterback to MVP candidate
0:40.2	and all in seven games. So our guest called this when next to nobody else came even close.
0:49.6	His name is Chuck Modiano. Let's talk to Chuck right now.
0:58.2	Chuck, thanks so much for joining us on the show.
1:07.5	Hey, great to be here, DZ. So let's just put it right on the table. What did you see in Gino Smith that few others saw?
1:14.2	Well, I love that you're asking about Gino. I love that he is getting this opportunity.
1:21.6	It should have happened years ago. What I saw was videotape. Let's start with videotape.
1:28.4	If you look at all of the Gino Smith backers, and they're not that many of us, and I mean backers at the end of the Jets and with the Giants and for years before the Seahawks, we all watched videotape. And his accuracy
1:35.7	has always been incredible, right? And when you go even back to the last four games of his Jets 2014 season, second season.
1:47.3	He had a very bad first half on a horrible team with no wide receivers.
1:52.1	But if you go to the end and Eric Decker is healthy, the first time he had a starting
1:56.4	wide receiver healthy for any stretch, he balled out with Eric Decker.
2:00.5	I believe he had the second
2:01.4	highest passer rating in the last four games. Eric Decker had a 220 yard game more than he ever had
2:07.3	under Peyton Manning throwing to him. Even if you go to his lone game with the Giants
2:14.6	and rewatch every single throw, you will see an incredibly accurate passer.
2:20.7	You'll see drop passes by terrible receivers.
2:23.2	But he did not throw one ball that was not catchable.
2:26.5	His worst ball thrown was a caught by Evan Ingram, who incidentally had his best game of the year, not the other 15 with Eli.
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