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David Garrard appeared on the NFL network, and had this to share (via Kimberly Martin<\/a>)\u00a0about Geno and his lack of progression:<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely think Geno has the ability to be a pretty good quarterback.\u00a0 I just think sometimes he\u2019s worried about the outside noise.\u00a0 He\u2019s worried about what his teammates think, what his coaches think, what the media thinks, what the fans think and he\u2019s not just concentrating on his game and just making the plays that he should be making.\u00a0 You see a lot of times in practice and in the meeting room, he\u2019s spot on; he knows exactly what to do.\u00a0 But he has moments where he\u2019s not doing that\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also on the topic of if Geno was carrying over mistakes from practice to game day:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, because you don\u2019t have the stress of everybody looking at you and seeing exactly what you\u2019re doing.\u00a0 But when he gets out there on game day, he has great plays but then he just has too many bonehead mistakes where we didn\u2019t see those things at practice.\u00a0 Why are we seeing them now in game time?\u00a0 He has to fix those before he can be a great quarterback\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

David Garrard\u2019s interaction with Geno Smith is on a limited basis, as he spent a few months on the roster<\/a> during the 2013 season.\u00a0\u00a0 Garrard seems to believe that Geno has the ability in him to become a very good QB, alluding to the fact that he seemed to be spot on in the meeting rooms, which shows mental capacity that many Jets fans doubt Smith possesses.\u00a0\u00a0 The comments indicate that Geno does know what to do in the situations he\u2019s presented with, but lacks focus during game day to achieve stardom.\u00a0 The lack of translation from practice to game day can be attributed to various reasons from a lack of ability to focus under pressure (Geno\u2019s last game in college in the Pinstripe Bowl<\/a>, or his documented<\/a> trouble with keeping time) all the way to lack of accountability inside the Jets locker room.\u00a0\u00a0 Geno Smith does have the physical ability to be a factor in the league, and if he can cross the mental hurdle and block out the \u201cnoises\u201d, then the Jets might just have a young QB that can lead the team to the playoffs.<\/p>\n

The upcoming season is going to be a big year for Geno Smith, as he faces stiff competition from Ryan Fitzpatrick, and rookie Bryce Petty is going to be the most talented third string QB the team has seen in years.\u00a0\u00a0 Coach Todd Bowles ability to have Geno Smith translate his skills on the practice field and in the film room to game day could go a long way in determining the success of his tenure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Garrard appeared on the NFL network, and had this to share (via Kimberly Martin)\u00a0about Geno and his lack of progression: \u201cI definitely think Geno has the ability to be a pretty good quarterback.\u00a0 I just think sometimes he\u2019s worried about the outside noise.\u00a0 He\u2019s worried about what his teammates think, what his coaches think, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":25973,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1337],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"category-home-slider"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/USATSI_8033797_158813650_lowres.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-7sE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28684","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28685,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28684\/revisions\/28685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}