The Raiders picked up a much-needed win against the Tennessee Titans on Sunday, and for Geno Smith it was his first week with a completion percentage above 70 percent since the first week of the season.
Smith wasn’t particularly sharp on Sunday, but he did enough to beat the Titans and listening to head coach Pete Carroll after the game, he seemed to be happy with what the team got from their veteran quarterback.
“Geno played a really solid game,” Carroll told members of the media in his postgame press conference.
“This was the game we were really trying to play, and we would like to have exploded a little bit more, they stayed off in deep [coverage] a great deal this game, so we just took advantage of checking the ball doing and doing all the right things, the right reads and all of that.”
Carroll also brought up the interception Smith threw in the fourth quarter and essentially said the turnover wasn’t the quarterback’s fault.
“Unfortunately, he got hammered on the interception and he couldn’t do much about that play,” Carroll said. “Other than that, not even other than that, he played a really good football game for us, and he managed the game beautifully and gave us a great chance to win it.”
Watching the replay, Smith got hit as he delivered the ball, but it was by no means one of Geno’s better plays in the game.
Carroll has been defensive of Smith in the first six weeks of the season, even to the point of sounding a little crazy after last week’s game.
As of Sunday night, Smith continues to pace the league in interceptions with 10.
Smith and the Raiders travel to Kansas City week 7 and regardless of what the head coach is saying publicly, they are going to need a better outing from the quarterback position next week to beat the Chiefs.
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Uh,Yeah Pete he could not throw it to the other team!!!!
He got hit. A good, full second after he delivered the ball. And wasn’t even close to hitting Mayer on a throw that shouldn’t be that difficult. Parham looked like he got beat and didn’t have a good rep, but Geno had enough time to make the play.
I get that he can’t go out and bury his QB, but I think he’s playing a dangerous game with the locker room with the constant special treatment. It happened in Seattle with Russ, but they were mostly still winning and Russ was still generally one of the better QBs in the league. Luckily (?) they don’t have as many good players to alienate, but it’s weird at this point.
Carroll is senile and Geno Smith is awful. He should not be a starter in this league at this point and Carroll is a moron for defending him.
Geno could’ve eat the ball, it was 1st down if i remember correctly. Only good thing Pete’s bromance with Geno does is give us a top 5 pick.
Crappy team with crappy owners, never been less excited by a Raiders win
You right about that mark davis is a idiot go get a coach that know how developed his players
Raiders ought to hire Offense Coordinator from BSU since Chip Kelley can’t figure out how to design plays that get Jeanty from getting slammed.- horrible unimaginable plays – play design is not Chip Kelley’s expertise. then after trading some players hopefully bundle and trade for better caliber QB – fantasy would be Trevor Lawrence, Tua or Joe Burrow
How are you going to blame the OC when the QB can’t read a defense and the o line is trash.
This is why I defend Chip
I don’t know the number after Sunday, but for a good while Jeanty’s yards before contact was negative. At one point he was averaging more yards AFTER contact than actual yards per carry. You can blame Chip for calling so many shotgun and pistol runs, knowing his line is terrible at run blocking, but that seems to be about making Geno comfortable. I’m not at all convinced Chip is a good NFL OC, but I don’t think 6 games with mostly atrocious run-blocking and QB play gives us much data to work with. Not to mention the Bowers situation, and Thornton starting while being on that DHB pace for less receptions than games played. And of course, they’ve spent most of the year playing from behind, usually way behind, which limits the playbook.
Again, he might not be the guy, but I don’t think he’s had the opportunity to show what his offense should look like. I don’t think Kyle Shanahan or Andy Reid could save this offense right now.
Pete better have the O-line ready or KC will boat race, sledge hammer, and send the Raiders home in body bags.
The word is out. Losing to the Raiders will get a coach fired! Ask Brian Callahan, just lost his HC gig at Tennessee after losing to the lowly Raiders.