{"id":60026,"date":"2025-08-10T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60026\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T21:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:53:10","slug":"pete-carroll-on-geno-smiths-obscene-gesture-did-you-see-what-the-sign-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60026\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Carroll on Geno Smith&#8217;s obscene gesture: Did you see what the sign said?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raiders quarterback Geno Smith <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/geno-smith-maxx-crosby-flip-off-seahawks-fan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">flipped off a Seahawks fan<\/a> before Thursday night\u2019s preseason game. Pete Carroll had a great view of the encounter and then tried to snatch the sign the fan held.<\/p>\n<p>The sign read: Bigger Bust \u2014 Geno or Jamarcus Russell?<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Carroll was asked about Smith\u2019s obscene gesture, and he defended his quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you see what the sign said?\u201d Carroll asked, rhetorically, before adding, \u201cNext question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russell was the No. 1 overall pick of the Raiders in 2007 and made only 25 starts in three seasons with the team before flaming out of the NFL. Smith, a second-round pick of the Jets in 2013, started two seasons in New York before a seven-year wait to become a full-time starter again when he replaced Russell Wilson in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Edge rusher Maxx Crosby also flipped off the fan, and both Smith and Crosby are expected to be fined by the league this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raiders quarterback Geno Smith flipped off a Seahawks fan before Thursday night\u2019s preseason game. Pete Carroll had a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-60026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}