How bad is Geno Smith? When the New York Jets quarterback got benched in favor of Michael Vick — the team’s backup — on Sunday, some of the Buffalo Bills defenders were sad to see him go.
One member of the Bills organization told the New York post that the Bills were “bummed out” when Rex Ryan pulled Smith following his three first-quarter interceptions. Linebacker Preston Brown, who picked off one of Smith’s passes, didn’t seem surprised by the poor performance.
“He was just eyeing down receivers,” Brown said. “We saw it on film that he was just staring guys down. When we know if you do that we’re going to jump on guys’ routes, and we got some picks in the back-end with just reading his eyes.
“We had Geno rattled and we tried to stay after him.”
The Jets are a mess, and Sunday quickly turned into a feeding frenzy. They are one of the few teams in the league with a starting quarterback that opponents would prefer to face over their backup. That’s not to say Vick would make New York a good team, because he has struggled just as much as Smith.
It’s going to be a very long remaining two months of the season for the Jets. There’s no two ways about it.
