Richard Sherman Podcast - Seahawks trade Geno Smith to Pete Carroll & Raiders

Richard Sherman reacts to the breaking news that the Seattle Seahawks have traded starting quarterback Geno Smith to Pete Carroll and the Las Vegas Raiders in exchange for a third-round pick. Sherm tries to make sense of the deal and wonders if Seattle replacing Geno with a free agent quarterback like Russell Wilson or Sam Darnold would be worth it.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
All right, man at you go ahead, Welcome back to
the Richard Sherman Podcast. And I know, I know it's
happening pretty quick. Free agency crazy trades. Geno Smith traded
to Pete Carroll in the Las Vegas Raiders. It took
a second for me to digestice, trying to understand and

(00:36):
look at it from every angle and understand the logic
in this. I know that there's a a piece of
the Seattle Seahawks fan base that feels like, oh, we
can do so much better than Geno.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
No, I don't. I don't think you can. But especially
in this landscape.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Now, if you said, hey, we have an opportunity to
get one of the five quarterbacks in National Football League
and we got to get rid of Geno to get
the draft picked to go get them, I would be
able to understand. I'd be able to get behind that
and be able to say let's go. But the things
I'm seeing, first off, I'm seeing the Minnesota Vikings want

(01:16):
to make things work with Sam Darnold. So it seems
like they want to they want him back, they want
to build around him. That's been that's been talked about,
that's been talked about internally. It's it's out there, and
I'm sure he feels some kind of loyalty to the
team that took a chance on him, gave him the
opportunity to start. He had an immense amount of success

(01:38):
under Kevin O'Connell with these weapons and Justin Jefferson and
Addison in this run game. I don't I don't think
he's gonna leave for something unknown. Now, maybe Seattle gives
him a crazy amount of money that he can't say
no to, But then again, that would leave me scratching
my head because you had Gino for less money and

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you had more controls. You know, was the lowest paid
full time starter amongst veterans that aren't on a rookie deal.
So you're gonna pay Sam Darnold, who had really a
great season last year, to come in behind an offensive
line that has not been great, and I haven't seen
any moves to make it much better. You hope to

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get better in the draft, you hope to get better
in free agency, but you see the Chicago Bears. That's
how you get your offensive line better. You make moves,
you go trade for all pro guard, you trade for
another good guard you hopefully draft to tackle, you know,
and you show you're gonna pay big money for a
center like you show, hey, we want to improve our

(02:43):
offensive line and give our young quarterback a chance. This
it doesn't scream plan to me. This doesn't scream great plan. Now,
clearly more time in free agency, more time to let
things settle and see, hey, what's going on here? What's
gonna happen with this? Because once we see what's gonna happen,

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then we can we can evaluated more. But from right now,
from this perspective, you look out there and say, or
the quarterbacks available that can come in and potentially start
right away, it's justin fields, can they do somethings as
crazy as bring back Russell Wilson? After you know how
that whole thing unraveled at the end. I maybe he's

(03:27):
open to it, maybe they're open to it. Is that
the answer? How much money would he command? And then
there's Sam Donald? And then there's the Sam Donald deal
and it's like, hey, I just don't know if if
first off, if he's really available, you know, if you
can get him away from Minnesota, And second off, you
would then pay Sam Donald more than you paying Geno

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Smith would would count more against the cap, likely a
longer term deal, And I'm not sure he's better, And
I'm I'm I think that's a lateral move at And
what you lose is the mobility of Geno Smith when
he was under pressure and under the rest. Sometimes he's
standing there and deliver. I know he got a rough

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season in terms of red zone interceptions. He did, he did.
Everybody can agree with that. But unless there's somebody obviously better,
somebody who is clearly hitting shoulders above younger, you move forward.
But Sam Donald is a pocket passer with He's got

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some mobility, but not as much as Geno even at
thirty five. And DK metcalf is looking for more money.
So now do you pay him or do you find
a trade partner and keep stacking draft picks.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
But then you have lost two of your top three receivers.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
You got a new offensive coordinator who's gonna try to
figure this thing out. You have a really talented defense,
But even then, with a really talented defense, if you're not,
if you don't can't put points on the board, you're
never gonna be bad enough to pick high enough to
get one of the top quarterbacks in the draft because

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your defense is gonna play well, They're gonna keep you
in some games. You're gonna coordinate, you're gonna run the ball,
you're gonna stand there, you're gonna score points. So you're
at a five hundred team. You were a ten win
team last season, and now are these moves gonna make
you a thirteen win team, a fourteen win team, a contender,
or are you gonna drop to not bad enough to

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to be a top five team in terms of picking
in the top five of the draft, but not good
enough to be in the playoffs, Like, I'm not sure,
And it's the move back. Quarterback is really important. This
is a really, really, really important moment for Mike McDonald
and even John Snyder's tenure because I know you pivoted

(05:53):
well from Russell Wilson to Geno Smith. That was great,
that was marvelous. That hat tip to that Pete Carroll,
the staff, they were prepared for it. But you had
Geno Smith in house, you had him, you knew what
you had and you knew what you're getting out of
him in this situation. I don't know, maybe they know

(06:13):
something I don't and clearly they do. They have to,
but right now I don't see a clear plan. And
if they don't know something, this is an insane move
to move off of somebody who's affordable, reliable, accurate, has
a rapport with your receivers, has a great love for
the city, you know, does a great job, does his job.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
I'm interested to see how this goes, because you don't
just deal quarterbacks like this, not in this league and
expect to have success immediately. And everybody's saying, hey, they're
gonna draft Jackson Dark if he's available. If he's available,
and some team doesn't jump Seattle when the spot they're in,
then maybe, But again he's an unknown when it comes

(07:01):
to this. Can he maneuver behind this offensive line? Are
they gonna use every draft pick and pay some guys
to improve this offensive line? Are there many guys out
there that could drastically improve this offensive line?

Speaker 2 (07:15):
I don't know. I think you got a good left
tackle on Charles Cross. I think Abe Lucas.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
If he's healthy, you know, it's shown he can be
he can be a really solid player in this league.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
But outside of that.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I mean, there's a lot of question marks and guys
who have been up and down.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
I think this is one of those situations where this
decision could have waited, like you wait until you know
more to make this decision.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Maybe they have a handshake deal with Sam Darnold and
it's already it's already done, so they're doing this maybe.
But if that's not the case, WHOA, This is wild.
I appreciate you guys as always for joining me. This
is a quick tidbit, a reactionary video based on the

(08:07):
news of the day. I hope to see you guys
again soon. I want you to stay tuned and keep
your ears to the streets when the news happens. I'm
gonna be the one to get on here and break
it down if I can. I know you can be
anywhere in the world, but you're here with me, and
I appreciate you. Having beautiful blast night. See you next time.

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