The best game of Week 3 was one you probably didn’t watch. And maybe if everyone was watching, more people would be drawing conclusions from Seahawks-Lions the way they would if this were the Chiefs and Bills or the Rams and 49ers.
So here’s one for the people who missed this particular showdown in Motown—Geno Smith is pretty good. And I’m not just saying he’s pretty good relative to what you think. He’s a pretty good quarterback, period, and he’s backing up the decision his coach made a month ago to go with him, regardless of who thought it was a head-scratcher at the time.
Pete Carroll’s reward for it Sunday was a quarterback who completed 77% of his passes for 320 yards, two touchdowns, no picks, a 132.6 passer rating and a staggering 10.67 yards per attempt. Oh, and Smith kept the Seahawks swinging in a scintillating 48–45 win over a Lions team that didn’t quit and to keep Seattle within a half game of the NFC West lead.
