When the Las Vegas Raiders traded for former Seattle Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith, it was clear that, at least for a year or two, the same QB issues they had the last few years were gone. Now, you still have to protect the guy and give him weapons, but everything else is now taken care of.
No more Gardner Minshew randomly running out of the pocket for no reason, or Aidan O'Connell not being fast enough to get out of the pocket and having low awareness. Now they have a guy who can actually make every single throw there is. Sure, he makes mistakes every now and then, but the Raiders are confident he can help them win games now.
And one thing is for sure, he already has an advantage in Las Vegas that he didn't have in Seattle. Yes, the offensive line is better, and yes, he has the best tight end in the league in Brock Bowers. But also, he has Tom Brady to go to.
“It’s good to be on the same side with him," Smith said earlier this offseason on Good Morning Football. "He beat me a few times, and I’m still a little mad about that, but it’s good to have a guy with, you know, just the type of player that he was.
"Everything that Tom brings to the game, just who he is as a man, just to see and talk to him, and for him to give me the wisdom and the knowledge that he has had throughout his career to help me extend my career. He played well into his 40s, and that’s something I hope to do. It’s one of those things where man, it’s such a cool and surreal thing to be a part of.”
Brady is the greatest of all time, the all-time greatest winner, the all-time greatest competitor. And, he played the QB position better than anyone, depending on who you ask. Yes, the Raiders had some rivalries against him, like the Tuck Rule game. But, he's on the dark side now.
The Raiders are going to exhaust everything they can out of Brady now that he is part of the ownership group. And that includes using him as a QB guru, because why not? And why would he not want to help the QB of the team he partially owns? The man wants to win at everything, and that means he wants his team to win.
He especially wants the Raiders to win and beat the Kansas City Chiefs, because if there is any player who can catch Brady, it's Patrick Mahomes. So, why not help as much as possible so that the Raiders can dethrone the Chiefs?
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