Rex won’t say it, but the Geno Smith era is finished

Rex Ryan had no choice.

He had to make the switch from Geno Smith to Michael Vick at quarterback this week. If he did not, he would have lost the locker room. Jets players who have been supportive of Smith through 24 games of inconsistent play were done after Sunday's three-interception first quarter. They had seen enough of Smith and believed Vick was the only option to save some face this season.

Ryan knows his locker room and knew it was finally time to quit sticking with Smith. Ryan had been fiercely loyal to Smith since he arrived, defending him at his worst moments and being quick to say after terrible games that Smith was his starting quarterback.

That's over now.

Ryan gave some spin about Smith being able to catch his breath and watch from the sidelines, but Smith's time as the Jets starter is over.

"Geno [can] take a step back for the first time in his career and maybe get a different perspective of it," Ryan said Monday. "This is not looking long-term, this is about the immediate. My focus is just on that … that's why this decision was made."

Unless Vick gets hurt, Smith should not see the field again. Even if Vick gets hurt, there is a case to be made for Matt Simms, currently on the practice squad.

We've seen this movie before with Ryan and the quarterback. He stuck with Mark Sanchez too long in 2012. Sunday's game for Smith was reminiscent of Sanchez's five-turnover performance in Nashville on that Monday night in 2012. After it, you knew it was over. There was no going back to Sanchez. It feels the same way now with Smith. How can Ryan ever sell his locker room on Smith giving this team the best chance to win?

Ryan did his best Monday to keep selling Smith as a future franchise quarterback, but the evidence against him is just too great to believe it at this point.

"Of course you hope a young quarterback could be that guy," Ryan said. "He had a poor game, that's no doubt. Have there been guys that have taken a step back and taken a leap forward? There have been guys like that. Hopefully, that's what happens to Geno. I don't think anybody in this organization is looking at him differently now."

Except everyone looks at him differently now. Two months ago, there was hope he was the future. Now, he's just another quarterback of the past.

You can argue Ryan should have made this move sooner to save the season. At 1-7, it's too late. But the Jets wanted to find out what they had in Smith. The jury was still out until Sunday afternoon. It is not even two weeks ago that he played his best game of the season in New England.

But Sunday's three-interception mess was too much to take. There was no coming back from that for Smith or the Jets.
Ryan took a while to get here, but he made the right call.

"It is a tough decision," Ryan said. "It's one that I feel comfortable with. Clearly, you don't want to make those decisions, but if it's in the best interest of your team then you need to make them. I feel right now that this is the right move."

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