Is it bad that Geno Smith forgot the play?

[JoRo1183]

While I understand u defending geno with "everybody makes mistakes", but for a QB to forget the play after only a few seconds is not good. Buffalo drafts geno, week 17 down by 5 with 1:30 left in 4th. Marrone calls 4 plays. Gotta run no huddle cause there is no timeouts left. Geno calls the plays in the huddle. First three plays work and they are at the 5 yard line with seconds left, clock is ticking. Ball is snapped, geno forgot the 4th play, Stevie cuts out towards the sideline, geno thinks he is slanting in and fires the ball to the hot route(stevie). Instead of Stevie, its Devin mccourty waiting in endzone, game over, bills fail to make playoffs again. Now I know this is an exaggeration but it could happen and probably to a lot of rookie qbs but if u want to be drafted in top 10, this can't happen.

Sometimes I feel like this happens every Sunday

[Thurman#1]

In this video for NFL Network, Steve Marriuccio draws up a play on the board, he then asks him a silly question after then goes back to the play he wrote and asks Geno Smith to redo the play, is it a red flag that he forgot one of the key elements to the play? I'm not a QB guru so for those that are would you say this video is a bad indication? Not putting down Geno Smith I like him as our potential QB but I'm wondering if this is more of a bad sign.

Here is the link:
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-combin...aking-his-case

First, he doesn't ask one question and then go back. Look at the time clock. There's 8:05 left when Mariucci erases the play. He asks the stupid question, then a legit one, and then there's a cut. Then he asks Geno to go back to the board and draw it up again. The time flashes. Four minutes has passed. We saw one good question and one stupid one and nowhere near 4 minutes had passed. Some stuff is missing there.

IMHO in this kind of thing forgetting everything would be bad, remembering everything would be insanely good, and remembering the shape of the play but forgetting details is OK. He had a chance to knock it out of the park and didn't, but how often is a kid asked to remember a play for four minutes told to him in slightly unfamiliar terminology, while having conversations and then run it or write it down four minutes later.

[Thurman#1]

I think the elephant in the room is the fact we have yet to figure out who "Mariuccio" is.

Sounds like an alias.

I think he killed Hamlet's uncle ...?

[DKTurtle]

First, he doesn't ask one question and then go back. Look at the time clock. There's 8:05 left when Mariucci erases the play. He asks the stupid question, then a legit one, and then there's a cut. Then he asks Geno to go back to the board and draw it up again. The time flashes. Four minutes has passed. We saw one good question and one stupid one and nowhere near 4 minutes had passed. Some stuff is missing there.

IMHO in this kind of thing forgetting everything would be bad, remembering everything would be insanely good, and remembering the shape of the play but forgetting details is OK. He had a chance to knock it out of the park and didn't, but how often is a kid asked to remember a play for four minutes told to him in slightly unfamiliar terminology, while having conversations and then run it or write it down four minutes later.

How often in day to day life or how often in the predraft process?

Its an open book test, these kids know whats coming. That is the main reason you want to see these guys be able to spit that kind of stuff back, they should be ready for it. Its not as if Mooch was talking to you or I and caught one of us completely off guard.