Accordingly, an ESPN poll of league executives and coaches nudged his name right at the bottom of their quarterback index.A poll, incidently, that also came to the same conclusion last season.
"I laugh at that. I laugh at it. It's hilarious," Smith said, via the New York Post.
"It was hilarious last year, too," he added. "It doesn't matter at this point. We've got to work on us as a team. That's why I hate to talk about individual stuff because it's a team game. No matter what they rate me, wherever we finish at the end of the year is most important."
Where the Jets finished at the end of last year found the addition of Ryan Fitzpatrick as Smith's relief man under center. Though coaches have reiterated that Smith is their man to start in Week 1, that they made the move might indicate their willingness to listen to, and not laugh at, polls like these.
Opinions are indeed like noses -- everyone has one. But opinions aren't unfounded. They must be made from something that actually happened that forms them. And Smith did complete only 57.5 percent of his pass attempts in 2014, appearing in four games without throwing a touchdown and tossing 11 interceptions in a 10-game losing streak.
New York posted the worst overall passing offense in football in 2014, the only club not to surpass 3,000 total yards through the air, and completed all of 184 yards every Sunday, also last in the league rankings.
Maybe that poll had a point.
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