Why did Seattle Sam Darnold chose on Geno Smith in Qurtubbere?
Seattle – At the time when the general manager of Seattle Sihaux John Schneider asked questions in the scouts that gather about the next contract negotiations with the agent of Geno Smith, his answer included one of them is an important qualification.
“We expect him to be young, but we want to do what is true as well,” Schneider told reporters in Indianapolis.
As it turned out, the team’s supreme decision -maker left the door cracked to what would be swap of Corterbeck. I started with the trading of Sehawks Smith to The Las Vegas Raiders on Friday to obtain a choice from the third round amid a collapse in the extension talks, and it was completed on Monday when they agreed to sign the free agent of SAM Darnold on a three -year deal worth $ 100.5 million.
Sehawks Darnold gives $ 55 million as a guarantee, according to Adam Shevter from ESPN, making it a great bet on their part that it will be better than Smith.
It is a concept danger.
Smith has one of the most talented and accurate weapons of the US Football Association, after breaking his own season’s concession record with a rate of completion of 70.4 %. He has led nine winning engines over the past two seasons and has a record of 27-22 over the past three, including 10-7 last year despite the bad offensive line and not much assistance from the running game.
But Smith is 34 years old and was up and down in the past two seasons, as he ranked twenty -first in QBR in that period. He threw 15 objections last season, including four in the league in the Red Zone. While coach Mike McDonald has been constantly described Smith’s hardness and work ethics, he also noticed the Qorsbbeck room to improve as a leader.
On 27, Darnold is the youngest of seven years of Smith. It also starts from a better year, as Minnesota Vikings led to a 14-3 record in his only season as a start. Darnold ranked 14th in QBR (60.4) – seven sites before Smith (53.8) – on his way to Pro Bowl.
But while Darnold may have a long-term long side of Smith, his struggles in the last two matches of Vikings-including the 11 Sake disaster in losing the qualifiers in Los Angeles Rams-may have given a look at his roof. Without a busy record of continuous success, there is a danger that may end until it is surprising for one year now after it left the preparation of the only American Football Association in which it excelled.
Darnold was widely seen as disappointment in selection No. 3 in 2018, after she wore from New York aircraft to Carolina Panthers, then San Francisco 49ers – where he played under the leadership of the new Siox attack coordinator Clint Cubak – before landing in Minnesota.
Darnold ranked 39th in QBR (42.1) during his first six seasons before flourishing under the supervision of Vikings coach Kevin Oconil, who will not follow him to Seattle. He also will not have the same elite of the receptions he was throwing in Minnesota-Justeen Jefferson and Jordan Edison-now after Sehux traded DK Metcalf and released Tyler Lukete, leaving them no options installed outside the Jackson Smith Negajba.
These moves, as well as the Smith trade, came after Siox released four other veterans as part of a great cleansing.
Their list will look very different-especially in the attack-but Sehawks do not take a step back in 2025 so that they can take two steps forward in 2026. They are returning most of their main players from the top 10 defense, and they now have a wide cap in addition to five choices of the 100 best players to meet their armed needs at home from their professional line.
SEAAAWKS did this before Schneider. What was seen abroad as rebuilding in 2018 – when they moved from some of their legs of the mutation stars – instead led to a decisive match. The same happened in 2022, after they circulated midfielder Russell Wilson and cut the back of the back of Bobby Wagner.
Whether this date repeats itself this season, more than anything else, on whether Senider and McDonald had obtained the midfielder’s exchange properly.