{"id":329726,"date":"2026-08-26T00:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329726\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T00:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:36:31","slug":"qb-geno-smith-hungry-to-be-a-winner-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329726\/","title":{"rendered":"QB Geno Smith Hungry to Be a Winner in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

To a man, Jets players have marveled at QB Geno Smith<\/a>‘s calm and firm leadership — in and out of the huddle. As he prepares for his 13th NFL season in his second stint with the Green & White, Smith presents as a man comfortable with who he is.<\/p>\n

“Overall, I think leadership starts with integrity, and I think in order to lead others, you got to lead yourself first,” Smith said before practice on Tuesday. “And so, I’m a guy who never misses a rep. I’m a guy who likes to be early and stay late and do all the little things that it takes to be prepared.<\/p>\n

“I think leadership comes with preparation. When guys know that you’re prepared, they don’t mind following you. And I never once said, ‘Hey, I’m the leader.’ I don’t. I don’t believe that’s my place. I think I lead by example. I lead through my play, and then I want those guys to feel me in the huddle. I want them to feel my passion and how bad I want to win. Every single day, every single rep. I really love to compete. That’s something I love the most, and I think my teammates appreciate that. And I let them talk about all the other stuff, but I just try to stay focused on what I need to do.”<\/p>\n

As the Jets’ Round 2 selection (No. 39 overall) in the 2013 NFL Draft, Smith, 35, has occupied some of the headspace of some of his younger, current teammates for many years — particularly as his career evolved and caught fire during his 5 seasons with the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n

“Before I got here, I knew of Geno,” WR Adonai Mitchell<\/a>, 23, said. “You know, I’m saying I’ve been watching him for a minute. I mean, I say he’s as advertised for sure.”<\/p>\n

Asked how he is dealing with the bright-eyed young men who first encountered him playing on the TV screen, Smith said: “I think it’s cool.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To a man, Jets players have marveled at QB Geno Smith‘s calm and firm leadership — in and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[116901,7640,85,9,11,10,12,116580],"class_list":["post-329726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-best-of-ny-jets","tag-geno-smith","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-training-camp-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}