Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Smith wanted to reunite with coach Pete Carroll.
April 4, 2025
“Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Smith wanted to reunite with coach Pete Carroll.”
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This goes behind the curtain of the Geno trade, where one day he was seemingly a lock to be extended in Seattle, to the next, where he ends up in Las Vegas for only a low third round pick and apparently no effort to shop him to other teams. It’s the first actually sourced claim, that I know of at least, that Geno wanted to reunite with Carroll. I don’t find it suprising but I do find it kind of reassuring.
As some others have framed it, Geno’s 3 year $106m base contract now on the books (plus incentives) is practically the Darnold contract with $1 million added, so $35.3m APY plus incentives. Obviously a phenomenal deal. But coming back to the main point of Florio’s article, given that Darnold remains a high risk ‘swing’ after only one good year in a very different system with very different roster makeup, why not keep Geno for the same contract if you could? I think we now have the answer. They simply couldn’t keep Geno because he wanted out.
Makes sense since he had his best years with Carrol as his coach and maybe he didn’t like the new coaching staff in Seattle
Rumors were that Seattle offered what he wanted, he just didn’t reply/accept it. In This case it looks like he just wanted out of Seattle and to reunite with Pete.
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This goes behind the curtain of the Geno trade, where one day he was seemingly a lock to be extended in Seattle, to the next, where he ends up in Las Vegas for only a low third round pick and apparently no effort to shop him to other teams. It’s the first actually sourced claim, that I know of at least, that Geno wanted to reunite with Carroll. I don’t find it suprising but I do find it kind of reassuring.
As some others have framed it, Geno’s 3 year $106m base contract now on the books (plus incentives) is practically the Darnold contract with $1 million added, so $35.3m APY plus incentives. Obviously a phenomenal deal. But coming back to the main point of Florio’s article, given that Darnold remains a high risk ‘swing’ after only one good year in a very different system with very different roster makeup, why not keep Geno for the same contract if you could? I think we now have the answer. They simply couldn’t keep Geno because he wanted out.
Makes sense since he had his best years with Carrol as his coach and maybe he didn’t like the new coaching staff in Seattle
Rumors were that Seattle offered what he wanted, he just didn’t reply/accept it. In This case it looks like he just wanted out of Seattle and to reunite with Pete.
Well then, that’s good news for us!
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