Geno Smith dialing up shot at historically great Jets season with one potential hurdle

Move over, Joe Namath.Take a backseat, Chad Pennington.Geno Smith is on pace at the midpoint of the season to rewrite the Jets’ single-season passing record book if he starts all 17 games.

And that begs the question: If a record falls in a forest, does anyone hear it? Text with Brian Costello all season as he brings Sports+ subscribers the latest Jets intel from on the field and off.Braelon Allen is listening and is ready to give the 36-year-old rental quarterback “a lot” of credit for the development of several young offensive players against the backdrop of a 2-6 record. “He could have a historical season for this franchise,” Allen told The Post.

“He’s been everything I expected and more.”Wayward teams usually are in the business of midseason quarterback changes, but that talk hasn’t started around the Jets because Smith is on pace to top Namath’s 4,007 passing yards from 1967 and Pennington’s 104.2 rating and 68.9 completion percentage from 2002.He is five off the pace of Ryan Fitzpatrick’s 31 touchdown passes from 2015.Considering that Smith was drafted by the Jets in 2013 to be their franchise quarterback, he knows what those names mean in franchise lore.

So, sharing their company must mean something, right?“Statistics are a part of it, but the reality is that the wins are what we are shooting for, so you have to continue to look inside and figure out ways to get better,” Smith said.“I just want to win the game.

As of right now, the focus is on the Chiefs and what we can do to give ourselves a chance to win [Sunday’s] game in a tough environment.”On the day the Cardinals traded freshly benched Jacoby Brissett to the Ravens, the Jets are not in the mind to offload their veteran starter because Smith’s play is providing meaningful evaluations on Allen, Adonai Mitchell, Kenyon Sadiq and Omar Cooper Jr.It’s an ingredient that was missing last season when Justin Fields — who will be on the opposing sideline as the Chi...