In other words, Smith was really good for almost the entire game, but there were also a couple of mistakes, and on a day the Seahawks rushed for only 59 yards, a really good, but not quite perfect Smith performance wasn’t good enough to win a football game.
Smith, as always, was hard on himself after the game, but as Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald noted, the Seahawks wouldn’t have been in position to potentially win the game in the fourth quarter, nor would they be in the playoff contention after 15 games, if not for the play of their quarterback.
“Geno is probably our top competitor on our football team. We’re not sitting here with life at the end of December unless Geno has done the things that he’s done. He’s a fighter, man. I thought he played a good game.
As for the knee injury that knocked him out of last week’s game, Smith said, “I was good enough to play, so I felt okay.”
And if there was additional blame to go around for the interceptions, be it protection issues or the routes being run—both of which have been factors on past interceptions this season—Smith wasn’t interested in sharing that blame.
“Anything you see that goes wrong, put it on me,” he said. “Anything that don’t look right, put it on me.”