It depends on which Geno shows up. He didn't look nearly as good at the end of the season as he did at the beginning. He took way too many chances, got away with a lot of shoulda been interceptions, and the team suffered because of it.
The big difference between the first part and the last part of the season is that Geno stopped taking what the defense was giving him and started forcing things. As to why, my guess is he felt he needed to generate more big plays to cover for the crap defense. Hopefully, he'll learn from this and do a better job of playing within himself.
Agreed. He was forcing the ball into some really tight windows, made some bad run/pass decisions, etc, things he wasn't doing earlier in the season. I saw a stat, on PFF maybe, where he had the most dropped interceptions in the league.
Perhaps the why was that we had injuries at C, RG, RT thus lowering his time to throw. Then add in the running backs being injured so teams could key more on the pass. Add in Waldron not calling different plays often and defenses were sitting on routes.
Right now, it would appear that Lock is the guy for the future, though we don't know how far in the future that might be. And given that he is on a one year deal, we could lose him before Geno retires. The FO wasn't in a panic for losing out on the top 3 last draft, so they seem to think a top draft pick QB might not be necessary, much to the chagrin of many posters around here.
My guess is it's a combination of all of the above. Regardless of the why, hopefully Geno learns from it.
I remember several times during the season thinking that Geno was getting really lucky. That's fine as long as Geno learns from it and is better this season.
For the most part, I agree. I do think that later in the season, for whatever reason, he started forcing things too much. He was probably putting additional pressure on himself, trying to cover for other problems the team was having (e.g., the poor run defense).
I agree. There's only one Patrick Mahomes and last time I checked, he doesn't play for Seattle. The Hawks, like most of the rest of the league, need to build a complete team (that includes a good run game) and plug in a QB who makes good decisions. I need to see more, but I think Geno can be that QB. The added benefit with Geno is that he can make all the throws, including intermediate throws over the middle (a slight dig at RW).
It wasn't just when Walker was out that our run game sucked. Walker had just 51 yards on 18 carries vs. the Giants, a game Geno played well in and that we won. Then there was the Bucs game in Munich, a game we lost and seemed to represent a turning point in our season. Geno had a decent game, 23-33, 275 yds, 2 TD's and 0 INT's, but Walker had just 17 yards rushing on 10 carries, one of the worst Seahawk rushing performances in franchise history. The following game, at home against the Raiders, was nearly as bad. Walker had just 26 yards on 14 carries and we lost in OT. All those efforts were all before Walker got hurt and missed a couple of games.
Dude has like a half of season of good tape. And he gets hurt a lot.
