{"id":25811,"date":"2014-08-07T00:42:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T04:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=25811"},"modified":"2022-04-01T03:41:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:41:40","slug":"vick-looking-forward-to-an-improved-geno-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2014\/08\/07\/vick-looking-forward-to-an-improved-geno-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Vick \u201cLooking Forward\u201d To An Improved Geno Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/new-york\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/11313666\/michael-vick-new-york-jets-says-geno-smith-much-better-last-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN.com<\/a>, veteran and (likely) back-up Quarterback Michael Vick has some high praise for incumbent starter Geno Smith at the Jets training facility in Cortland, NY. Vick said in reference to the young starter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He\u2019s going to be 10 times better than where he was last year, and I\u2019m looking forward to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vick is saying all the right things as a back-up QB, but there\u2019s little doubt he wants to win the starting job. That however, is an unlikely scenario with Smith receiving roughly 80% of the snaps in training camp. Vick\u2019s only hope of winning the job would be a complete implosion by Smith in the pre-season while playing well himself in an offense he\u2019s familiar with and has at times, excelled in.<\/p>\n<p>As far as Smith goes, he sounds confident heading in the Jets pre-season opener against the Colts on Thursday night, \u201cPhysically, I\u2019m bigger and stronger,\u201d and added \u201cUltimately, it\u2019s about proving it on the field, going out there Thursday night and being sharp and having a good showing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Who do you want to be the quarterback of the NY Jets? Comment in our <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.JetNation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Jets message board<\/a> and let us know what you think.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ESPN.com, veteran and (likely) back-up Quarterback Michael Vick has some high praise for incumbent starter Geno Smith at the Jets training facility in Cortland, NY. Vick said in reference to the young starter: He\u2019s going to be 10 times better than where he was last year, and I\u2019m looking forward to it. Vick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":25103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Geno_Vick.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-6Ij","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58785,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25811\/revisions\/58785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}