Seattle Seahawks: Hoping for a QB Miracle
The Current Candidates
As for the Seattle Seahawks’ current combatants, it will come down to the quarterback who doesn’t lose the job with his lackluster play.
Due to Covid, the coaching staff hasn’t gotten as much of a look at Lock as they would have liked. It would make for a great excuse and provide an opportunity for wish-casting if they didn’t have his performances in Denver to let them know that he probably isn’t going to set the football world ablaze.
Lock has a great arm, but unfortunately, his propensity to hurl spirals to open defensive backs has always made him a less than stellar starting QB option. Do they expect anything to change in Seattle? Tennessee’s Ryan Tannehill is very much the exception rather than the rule for a quarterback positively turning his career 180 degrees in the opposite direction due to a change of scenery.
As for the current front-runner, what can anyone say about Geno Smith that hasn’t already been said about such luminaries as Todd Collins, Shane Matthews, or Tommy Maddox? Smith showed last season he can play just well enough to make a critical mistake in the fourth quarter and cost the Seattle Seahawks a “W.”
Geno is a poor man’s Jacoby Brissett. And that’s not really the kind of guy who will lead the team beyond the three-win threshold.
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