Brandon Marshall meets Geno Smith
I wonder a lot about what Brandon Marshall is really like. He has had his very public troubles, especially early in his career, and has seemingly overcome the odds to better himself and become a success story. Yet, despite his immense talent (he could be a top 10 WR in the game, some already see him as one) this will be his 4th team, and his 3rd team in 5 years. Each time, he was traded, he didn’t walk in free agency. It makes me wonder how problematic he still is behind closed locker room doors. Why do so many teams keep passing on a player of this caliber? He seemed to finally find a home in Chicago but even now he’s going away, and he will be a New York Jet if he passes his physical. For only a 5th rounder, too. I think this is a steal for NY.
One thing I don’t think is getting proper attention here is that the Jets WR corp is now Eric Decker & Brandon Marshall. Yes, Geno Smith is still the QB, which hurts, but that is one of the best 1-2 punches in the league. If the Jets keep Harvin, it’s even better. It’s all up to Geno now. He’s got a new coach, a new system, new weapons, and another year under his belt. I don’t have much faith in Geno as a QB, and I hope he realizes this is probably his make or break it year. If he doesn’t improve substantially this season, he’s toast. This is of course assuming the Jets don’t go after anyone else or draft anybody.
Thing with Marshall is he had undiagnosed BPD for years. I have a relative with it, it is not something very pleasant to deal with without medication and treatment. Bears were the first team he was on during treatment, so I try to look past his past ejections. In Chicago, I think it was just bad timing for him; Alshon Jeffrey is a similar type of receiver, he’s coming on well, and Marshall will be 31 in a few weeks. He was expendable, especially if John Fox manages to ship Cutler and commit to rebuilding.
What Clari said. He was a nightmare in Denver, he was a nightmare in Miami, but all his problems were known quantities. When he was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, and started getting treatment, his problems vanished. By all account’s he’s excellent in the locker room. It’s amazing what happens when psychological illnesses can do to a person, and the turnaround they can make when those illnesses are diagnosed and properly treated. I shudder to think how many undiagnosed problems there are in professional athletes– their whole lives, they’re treated like their issues don’t exist, they’re skirted and bypassed, told to ignore it if they bring it up. Marshall’s one of the few that I know of who has been treated, and man… even though I was thrilled to see him go from Denver (he WAS toxic), I am even more excited for him to seem to be recovering.
I have no idea why the Bears dumped him. I am absolutely further astonished that NO ONE ELSE GAVE MORE THAN A FIFTH ROUNDER FOR THE GUY. He’s one of the top 5 receivers in the game. MOST teams should have been willing to give up a 2nd, and even teams stocked at WR a 3rd. I mean, crimany. His contract isn’t even that burdensome. The dude is a better WR than Harvin, and substantially less poisonous, and THAT dude got a 1st-rounder-plus from a team that’s been pretty damned savvy of late.
This makes no sense, unless Marshall joked about getting dumped from Denver and Fox’s fragile, pathetic, insane little ego couldn’t handle it, so he sent him to the Jets as punishment. And I can see Fox doing that, actually.
That was a quick turnaround for you, Dave. You always say you can’t make topical comics that fast but here we are.
Bad deal for Chicago. They get a fifth round pick and save a tiny bit of cap space. He might be a bit of a diva, but he was also the only one who seemed to care last season. Hope he does well in NY.
I spend the day before the comic goes live making the comic. I usually have to spend most of the morning thinking of the joke and planning it out, and the afternoon/evening producing it. By 12 I usually know what I am doing. If news breaks in the morning, I usually have enough time to figure out a gag. If news breaks in the afternoon however I’m stuck because I’m normally in production by then.
I like Geno Smith. I feel like I’m the only one in the world who remembers that he took a terrible jets team and made them 8-8 his first season. His good games were great and his bad games were abysmal. He just need to be coached up and make better decisions. That’s something that Rex and the guys there clearly just weren’t capable or willing to do. After one season they loaded up Vick into the mix and continued the tradition running that franchise like a circus.
At one point last year a report came out that said he wasn’t allowed to make any reads on the field and his passes were predetermined. That’s not how you let a guy grow. I wouldn’t be surprised if the new regime realizes they have a promising young QB and keep him as the starter.
I think if that fuck Ryan wasn’t so impatient and let Geno mature, then the might have had much better stats.
Brandon Marshall has never appeared in a playoff game.
And now he never will.
No offense, but you already did this comic with geno and harvin. kinda a lame comic to beat the same idea twice………
Not as an official comic though, just as a small quickie and I never posted it here
I’m convinced Marshall is one of the greatest WRs ever. Don’t believe me? Look at his stats: 7 seasons with 1000+ yards, 5 seasons with 100+ catches, 3 seasons with 10+ TDs. Now look at his QBs: Jake Plummer, Jay Cutler, Patrick Ramsey, Kyle Orton, Chris Simms, Chad Henne, Tyler Thigpen, Chad Pennington, Matt Moore, JP Losman, Jason Campbell, Josh McCown, Jimmy Clausen. That’s a murders row of suck. How he put up those stats while having to play with those quarterbacks is beyond me. Marshall is inhuman.
Steve Smith, Anquan Boldin, Larry Fitzgerald, Tim Brown, and Chris Carter want a word with you.
Love the comics man, keep up the great work