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Geno Smith reportedly has some options as he searches for a new team.

The free agent quarterback has reportedly drawn interest from the Cleveland Browns, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. The Los Angeles Chargers are also interested, and he has already visited with the New York Giants, a meeting which went very well.

Smith is apparently willing to accept a backup role if necessary and rebuild his value and learn behind a quality starter, though he would ultimately prefer a chance to compete for a starting role. Cleveland could offer him that opportunity, where the Giants and Chargers could not.

It’s safe to say that NFL personnel people like Smith more than this reporter does, even if they don’t love him. It sounds like he has a pretty good chance of finding a job somewhere.

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as sad as it is....he still has more wins than our QB's.

Please No ...

No he is one shy.

Brock Osweiler 13 - 8

Geno Smith 12-18

lol bro dont do that to me.

ok, who would you rather start....and you HAVE to choose.

Brock, or Geno?

Brock Osweiler

i might lean toward geno

LOL on the "don't do that to me" part. I was thinking the same damn thing. LOL

Oh, and who to start? Jimmy G!!!!

We can't have a separate thread for this.

I have already used my Butt Fumbleruski joke.

LOL..........except that was Sanchez. Or, am I not getting your joke?

Nope, you got it. I was hoping being a Jets QB was close enough.

LOL

A QB, your team leader rips off a teammate gets his jaw broke from it and not a single person on that team defended him. If we want to bring back a selfish ass that has no regards for anyone else we will bring back Manziel.

We have to pay brock for this year so role with Brock. Geno? really?

Anyone have any clue exactly what were interested in him for ... it sure as all hell better not be to play QB ...

We are paying Brock $16 mil to threaten to break Geno's jaw if he throws an interception.

Analytics takes more into account than what you think.

Nice. LOL

Way to kill my positive vibes.

Geno isn't good. I once watched him throw a Hail Mary 10 yards out of bounds, right before the half. He lost me there, reminded me of BQ.

Just no.

WTF, are these people actually trying to alienate me?

For what?? Target practice?

I'm pretty sure that's still not legal.

Who cares? There is basically no difference between him and the guys we have.

You have PLENTY of company if you don't want this bum brought aboard.

I'd take Brock over Geno any day.

Please, please be a bad joke.

What are you saying? Are you saying we should bring him in because there is no difference between the guys we have and Geno? I don't get it.

Outside looking in, Geno is no leader. No thanks.

lol it cant be

If we're going to struggle I'd feel better doing it with a youngster who MIGHT have a chance to develop.
Smith isn't a pro in so many ways...

Probably fake news.

It's smokescreen time before the draft. It's smart to cast a few lines out here and there to try and divert away from our actual target(s). Given our "fluid" QB situation we will be linked with everyone lol! I still think the Browns brass know who they want - this is disinformation, hopefully....

There’s only one place for Geno Smith to go to save his career: Canada

MANISH MEHTA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, March 13, 2017, 11:00 AM

Geno Smith should invest in a Gor-tex coat, pack a scarf and take his "talents" North of the Border to revive a career teetering on irrelevance here.

The wayward free-agent quarterback's best opportunity to prove that he actually can become the player he sees in the mirror lies in Canada, not the NFL, right now.

Smith's weekend meeting with Giants brass prompted a hearty chuckle across the league. NFL teams are yearning to win the Geno Sweepstakes as much as they're yearning to win a couple bucks in a scratch-off lotto ticket.

Smith might be the least equipped person to play in New York, an immature and insecure guy filled with self-delusion. His litany of missteps on and off the field for the past four years has been well-chronicled.

The reality is that New York is no place for a flawed, thin-skinned quarterback. Truth be told, no major market makes sense for Smith.

He was an embarrassment for the Jets. He would be the same for the Giants by saying or doing something stupid because, well, he's currently a 26-year-old child.

His soundtrack has been predictable through the years. Screw up. Recite textbook mea culpas. Screw up again. Blame the media.

Smith boycotted reporters for a week during training camp last summer because he didn't like the headline of a story chronicling the one-year anniversary of his locker room fight with a teammate that broke his jaw. (A member of the organization later lectured the reporter).

How ridiculous did the behind-the-scenes damage control get for Smith? A team official spent last year trying to repair Smith's image to help his chances of landing a job elsewhere in free agency this offseason.

Smith, however, never changed his stripes. He whined behind closed doors. He even whined with a mini-tantrum on the sidelines after Ryan Fitzpatrick's interception in the end zone in a primetime loss in Arizona in Week 6.

The pre-draft portrait of a mercurial guy unfit to be the leader of men turned out to be deadly accurate.

Smith even went so far as try to bully reporters. I witnessed him attempting to intimidate a member of the media in the locker room late last season. It was a pathetic display by a pathetic player unable to deal with his growing irrelevance.

It's been a nauseating cycle for Smith, who is a legend in his own mind. The reality is that Smith is 12-18 as a starter in four seasons with 28 touchdowns and 43 turnovers. He's won back-to-back games a grand total of one time in his career. He has committed at least one turnover in 80 percent of his career starts (24 of 30). He is one of the worst signal callers by nearly every statistical measure since entering the league.

Smith's health has further clouded his future. He's a long way away from being fully recovered from a torn ACL suffered in Week 7. It makes no sense for the Jets to bring him back for unofficially a million reasons, including his health and selfishness.

Imagine all the sideline tantrums and dumb things that would spill out of his mouth if Bryce Petty and/or Christian Hackenberg were struggling. Smith wants to play. He's not exactly the mentoring type.

Smith revealed his goals a couple weeks ago in an NFL Network story when he laughably claimed that he's shown that he can be "one of the best" in "glimpses."

Smith will collect dust if/when he signs with a team this offseason. He hasn't finished a game he started since 2014. He now claims that he's gotten better "behind the scenes," which means absolutely nothing.

The only way he can truly improve at this stage of his career is to maximize his playing time. That won't happen in the NFL now, so it'd be smart for him to explore options in the CFL.

Vince Young took that path last week by signing with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Smith should try to prove to everyone in the NFL that he can become a viable starter/leader by heading to Canada for a couple years.

If he succeeds with Toronto, Montreal or anywhere up north, he might have a chance to find success in the NFL. He's still young enough to gain valuable experience in Canada and return to the NFL in his prime (if he's actually good in the CFL).

Smith has a couple of smart personal advisors, but his agent, Kim Miale of Roc Nation, is nearly as lost as he is right now. She's been an enabler rather than a valuable asset assessing his true value.

The laughably inexperienced Miale was assigned to Smith after the former West Virginia quarterback chose Roc Nation over experienced agents. She was actually his second representative; he fired his original agents after the draft, in part, because he slipped out of the first round.

Miale isn't exactly the most tapped-in agent on the block. At a time when Smith could use a skilled representative to give him the lay of the land, the poor guy is listening to an agent who can't properly provide valuable inside information about his options.

Geno Smith has been pushed to the margins. Maybe he can grow up in Canada and have a chance to salvage his career.

a voice of reason. Geno is not NFL material

I don't like Geno Smith and don't want the Browns to sign him, but man, that was an unfair, mean-spirited article.

It sure was.
Toward the CFL, haha. He'd suck in the CFL, too.

If I had to choose between Brock and Geno...I would seriously rather roll with Brock.

However, with our new improved Oline, I would prefer to roll with Kessler than Brock.

But, in a perfect world we draft Garrett and make the trade with NE for JG.

Back up on practice squad for scout team.

I'm really beginning to think here that Cody will be our opening day starter. Whoever the QB is, they should benefit from an improved pass protection and improved run (theoretically speaking) game.

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Geno Smith: Discount the reports that the Browns are interested. They aren't. For good reason. Smith had 28 touchdowns, 36 interceptions and a 72.4 rating in four seasons in New York. Keeping Griffin would have been a better option.

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