Has Geno Smith really become this poor of a quarterback? Things are really bad for you as a player when the Buffalo Bills as an organization start trashing you.
After turning the ball over three times on interceptions in the first 10:20 of the game, the Jets benched Geno Smith for Michael Vick.
According to the New York Post, members of the Bills organization were bummed about Smith getting the quick hook.
“We were bummed out when they took Geno out,’’ because the pickings were becoming too easy.
“He was just eyeing down receivers,’’ said Bills linebacker Preston Brown, who got Smith’s second interception.“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 Bills weren’t done trashing Smith at that point either.
as we can … and we did that,’’ Bryant said.
“You could see from the very first snap [Smith] wasn’t connecting with any of his receivers and our DBs took advantage of that,’’ said Bills defensive tackle Stefan Charles, who recovered the fumble Bryant forced.
“Our main thing was to get our D-line in Geno’s face and get him rattled, make him have hot feet in the pocket so he can’t be comfortable back there,’’ said Bills linebacker Nigel Bradham, who had a forced fumble. “Fortunately, we came out hot and caused a bunch of turnovers. Vick came into the game and gave us some different looks and scrambled and we had to make some adjustments.
“When he got in there he was just running around … like the old Vick, almost.’’