[Senator Clay Davis]

Geno is playing significantly better than Darnold did, and the Panthers are extremely poorly run. As for crappy defenses, Brady just played the crappy Falcons defense and needed the worst call in recent history to beat them, putting up middling numbers. It is early, and the better comparable is when Alex Smith was MVP after 5-6 weeks (the year before Mahomes took over). But even if Geno's ceiling now is, well, Alex Smith, a team like the Colts would kill for an Alex Smith instead of the washed up has beens they've trotted out post-Luck. His start might be a mirage, or maybe he's having a Rich Gannon late career renaissance. Time will tell.