The 2025 season continues to play out exactly how Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider wanted it to. During the 2025 offseason, Schneider made multiple changes to the offense, and all now look brilliant. Sam Darnold was in, for instance, and Geno Smith was out.
Smith was traded to the Las Vegas Raiders, the new home of Smith's old coach in Seattle, Pete Carroll. Together, the hope was that the quarterback and the head coach could reset the Raiders' culture and help turn a mediocre franchise into a suddenly successful one. That didn't happen.
Entering Week 18, Las Vegas is 2-14, Carroll has a good chance of being a one-and-done coach with the Raiders, and the same might hold for Smith.