Could Geno Smith help the Jets break decade-long trend to go 2-0? A human skeleton could help explain the turnaround

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Geno Smith remembers the skeleton. Not the proverbial skeletons of past seasons buried, the New York Jets’ back-again quarterback remarkably void of negativity or defiance about his winding NFL journey, offensive coordinator Frank Reich says. Instead, this skeleton far predates the Jets selecting Smith in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft and far predates Smith losing his starting job in 2015 after a teammate’s punch fractured his jaw. The skeleton Smith remembers was life-sized, a replica of every bone in the human body. It stood at the front of his seventh-grade observational drawing class.…