Can Geno Smith play his way back onto the Seahawks in 2025?
Geno Smith escaped serious injury, but he needs to start winning or face an uncertain future with Seattle
When Dorothy wakes up in Oz, audiences can only imagine how jarring of an experience that must have been, especially because the changes from world-to-world are not as dramatic as, say, being inside of the tesseract in Interstellar. This is no place on Earth that I’m aware of:
But Oz is like Kansas, just a little different.
She has her home, but it’s in the wrong place; She has her friends, but they’re in the wrong bodies; She has a road, but it’s yellow. In fact, everything she sees is through color-colored glasses.
Everything she’s known is there, just painted differently than she expected. But despite the familiarity and the beauty of Oz, Dorothy never questions that she has to go back to Kansas and to her normal life.
Her family is her base and so that’s what she can always count on to be true.
Remember that…”What can we count on to always be true?”
When she finally gets home, there’s no color. No talking scarecrow. No ruby slippers that Dorothy sells at auction for $28 million to save the farm. It’s the same place, only Dorothy is different and BECAUSE of her experience she doesn’t lament the fact that she left behind a world of vibrant colors for the simple life…
Dorothy appreciates Oz for what it is and we appreciate The Wizard of Oz for what it is, which is a tremendously better movie than any other iteration of the story that has been produced since 1939. Can fans appreciate THE BEST VERSION of something without needing every other version of that thing to meet our expectations? Can Dorothy love Kansas for what it is, instead of lamenting what it isn’t?
I think Geno Smith’s 2022 season is Oz.
I think his other 11 NFL seasons are so clearly Kansas.
But don’t tell Geno that there’s “no place like home”:
On Monday, I opened the floor for questions and posted several polls to Seahawks fans for what they think about the team, the players, and the future. One such question was whether or not Seattle should extend Geno for $45 million per season, which is a number that I decided on because it is “The Kirk Cousins Ceiling”. The results were overwhelming: