hahahaaaaaa...perfectly said

Exactly... millionaires call that a tough time?

As a competitor and someone whos clearly very ambitious, yeah, it's a tough time, as just a person though, yeah it couldn't be an easier time

@@aaronkaminski9138People on the internet can’t wrap their heads around the fact that someone having money doesn’t mean they can’t be depressed or feel bad.

We should start a "go fund me"

yeah, a damn shame his "elusiveness" is a bigger talking point than his touchdowns to interceptions ratio no one brings up.

“That’s not what he wanted to cook” - Patrick Star

Except the Seahawks haven't done much despite everything they got in that trade. Outside of the coach getting fired....er "reassigned" LOL!

@@shep68Aside from draft all of those great players and not have to pay Russell Wilson. But yeah sure they haven’t done anything.

@@shep68uh they’ve done a lot. They aren’t gonna now pay $85 mill dead cap and have great young player.

@@R17759agree hawks were always gonna win the trade.

@@R17759 They're a mediocre team. What was Denver's record this year? What was Seattle's record?

Two years without Russ and Pete got fired.

@@disqusrubbish5467yes but not because he was a bad coach, but because seattle needed something different to make that leap. It ain’t like bill who has just no idea how to win games without Brady.

Carroll, is looking for any NFL position now except water person! Sad!😮

@@Agent77X dude turned down multiple jobs to stay in Seattle.

pete was 7-9 2 years in a row and going into a season with matt fylnn at QB vs the 49ers harbaugh teams lmao. He woulda been fired for a 3rd team and just been known as a college coach if russell wilson didn't save his job and the seahawks. And before you cry and pushback, pete has admitted he would've been fired long ago without russ, look it up.

Wishful thinking.

I don't want him back.

For this type of reason, I think the broncos should have kept him and made him hold the ball for kicks and play on special teams, f*** Russell Wilson for the level of play he gave us for the insane amount of money we paid him.

Payton is an idiot the way he’s handled this! He won’t be coaching long. $89 million total cap hit the Denver Bronco’s will absorb in 2024 and 2025. I was never a fan of Sean Payton. With that said, As a Steeler fan I’d welcome Russell Wilson and the 26 TD’s he threw last year. I think he still has the Seattle Russ still in him. Hall of Fame caliber guy just like Rich Eisen said. Denver was a mess!

He’s been exposed. Guess coaching ain’t as easy without an all-time great QB running the show.

@@richardcranium5801 Payton left NO before he got exposed like Belichick did when Brady left. Just like Bill, Payton success as a coach was due to Breese being a beast. After he retired, Payton’s legacy would have been tarnished so he left. He’s blaming Russ for his lack of success last year and now he’s gonna ride the rebuilding excuse as long as he can then he’ll retire again before bronco fans R U N him O F T. 😊

Exactly, Payton's reputation is based on Brees being a near-GOAT & he ran off as soon as Brees retired so his fake reputation would be protected. The man is a complete grifter & I remember him mostly for paying his players to hurt the opposition, not as an offensive guru. Russ is overrated for sure but I'd take him over disgraceful Payton any day.

@@oneg1970100%. I wonder who he's going to scapegoat now that his whipping boy is gone. Russ was an easy target for Payton, who tried to jam a square peg into a round hole and then wondered and whined about why it didn't work. His play calling last year was so vanilla, and he blamed it all on Russ...

Russ has to get on a team even if he tries as coach. Russ cant let the HOF go!

Note: Nick Wright was Nick Wrong when predicting The Goat Tom Brady’s demise

@@lvbluestreak is Tom Brady Russell Wilson

This is beautiful

Exactly. I can understand the hail mary trade to secure what you think is the next best QB (after failing to land AR). What cannot be excused is that huge extension

@@TheForbiddenOne55 If I recall, Wilson had a no-trade clause in his Seattle contract. Part of why Seattle was ready to move on is that they didn't want to be on the hook for yet another huge extension. Wilson's agent is ruthless and gets top dollar. Thus, there never would have been a trade to Denver without the agreement to extend his contract ASAP. So they made the trade knowing they were also extending him. Wilson has won at the business game of the NFL and I have zero sympathy for billionaires having to honor a contract they presented to one of their employees.

Agreed. And he was coming off a couple of not so good years with the Hawks. He wasn't terrible. But he hadn't really looked like the old Russell Wilson in a year or two. It was worth a chance to see what you could do with him, and trade for him. But they paid too much, and that Extension was terrible. But that's the NFL - and QBs.

I don't understand why people think he's gonna play football next year. He would make exactly the same amount doing nothing. Why play a dangerous game for essentially free?

Agreed. I think the reason they signed him to an extension when they did is because Herbert and Lamar Jackson were negotiating extensions and after Deshawn Watson hit all of that guaranteed money they were afraid that Herbert and Jackson would reset the market and they’d have to pay him more after he performed well. Turns out that was a very bad idea.

I feel bad for ya. You all got it rough. A terrible gm and an overrated hack for a head coach. Good luck with all that. Just keep this in the back of your mind about Payton. He left NO before he got exposed like Belichick did when Brady left. Just like Bill, Payton success as a coach was due to Breese being a beast. After he retired, Payton’s legacy would have been tarnished so he left. He’s blaming Russ for his lack of success last year and now he’s gonna ride the rebuilding excuse as long as he can then he’ll retire again before bronco fans R U N him O F T. 😊

You need a really hard tank for two years. Stop trying to win 9 wins, and start trying to accumulate draft capital and space. Can the present leadership do that and survive?

Hindsight is 20/20 my man, at that time, very few outside of some Seattle fans themselves were criticizing that trade. As for the contract, Paton is not to blame, the ownership is. Paton is on record saying he wanted to wait til later in the season to talk about an extension but ownership pushed to get it done ASAP

The next QB will cost the Broncos $89 million in cap, $39 million in cash, and the new guy's salary. So this year the QB will cost about $130 million. Mahomes: "Wait - what?!" Paton and Payton should be shown the door.

@@disqusrubbish5467 The contract was ownerships doing, not Paton, and Payton wasn’t even there yet… at least put the blame where it belongs

all time record is broncos 35-22.

@@cloudboy2970And since super bowl 48?

Elway killed us every year

@@epa316it’s still35-22

@@Cooz. Broncos fans have those regular season wins, Seahawks fans have a super bowl trophy over the Broncos.

@casey2346 He didn't play a single game on that contract, of course it wasn't worth it. I will say that landing in Denver could have worked out well for him, but that albatross contract hamstrung him in the end.

That contract came at a time when 3 other QBs also received quarter billion contracts. (Russell, Rogers, Mahomes, and the Cleveland Massage King). Only one made the playoffs that season lol

Amazing insight...please tell us how water is wet and the sky is blue now.

Wow thank you for that brilliant insight lol

There's only 5-9 QBs who are worth that much, but the league is going to pay at least 16 QBs in that range over the next few years.

I agree and think he would be better than McNabb was under Reid.

9 great seasons might not cut it from a QB given how many top notch QBs there are over the last 20 years. The bar is different.

I can't see any scenario where Russell Wilson is a Hall of Famer that doesn't involve an immediate and sustained turnaround. There wasn't a single time in his career that he was the best player on his team.

That run was The Legion of Boom, not Russ. Russ had one of the greatest defenses ever. Sure Russ played good, but he didn’t carry the team. The D carried that team.

If he had* won, he would* be* 2 in 2 years and have* propelled* forward a dynasty ...

@@user-tz2zz5ij1s Without Russ, that team doesn't win or get to a Super Bowl--not even one. They needed a dynamic quarterback with game-changing abilities. They found that in Russ. If they had decided to start Flynn instead, they're a playoff team that never wins a Super Bowl. People who pretend like Russ wasn't one of the reasons those Seahawks teams got to back to back Super Bowls are in denial.

@@brandonb.5304 if he was the reason, why didn’t they go back after the legion of boom was gone? Russ never did anything without a great defense and a running game. What you are in denial about is that a QB can take chances when you have an all time great D and a great running game. Russ has had his chance to be the guy. History has shown he isn’t the guy, he wasn’t the guy. He was just the guy that was lucky to QB a great team.

in my opinion, his last two seasons for the Seahawks were poor. He was in decline and we all saw it apart from the Broncos staff

Seahawks fans told Broncos fans this when the trade was rumoured before Wilson had even played his first game for the Broncos. So as a Broncos fan I said this was going to happen. No antidote for shock needed here! Seattle fans were pretty unanimous in calling this.

@@kellyshaw7271 He had amazing stats in the front half of 2020 and 2021, but trailed off considerably in the back half of those 2 years. First half of 2020 he had 28 TDs and 8 INTs with a 117 passer rating. But in the final 8 games, 12 TDs, 5 INTs, 91.3 rating. Very average. Then in 2021 he had a finger injury I think and was up and down statistically after that.

Russ has always had a limited playstyle, even at his peak. 30 yard moonball TDs or a sack. He just can't throw down the middle of the field.

Definitely declined but it’s too many horrible qbs in the nfl totally devalue him

…to the next team. 🏇

The ride never ends

That's a joke ride where

"class act" haha he's a giant phony who puts on a fake face for PR, it's why he's struggled to maintain the respect of his own teammates for years now despite being viewed as a "winning franchise QB" just goes to show how easily duped people are....... the dude sat in his own office away from his own teammates because he viewed himself as better than them.....yeah super classy

Speaking out of your a$$...

​@@mattcarberry368You sound mad and broke bro....stop hating.

Lmao okay

This guy gets trashed on by the organization and still shows no emotion.

lol always blaming coaches

Here's the thing for a lot of us Seattle fans. We still like Russell, his dorkiness and all. In 20 years I'll still look back at the 2013 season with nothing but joy. But it is nice he took a little more time in his departure to thank Denver.

I thought the primary reason he put out a full statement was to diss Payton and Paton with the glaring omission of not thanking them.

@@el80ne Works on both levels I think

Even with the bounty from the trade they missed the playoffs

I think it's great ... I hope it's the 1st of many domino's to fall. Tired of the overpaid/QB era. League should set a max contract of 10% of the cap.

Jimmy* Graham*, Aaron Rodgers*, Patrick Mahomes*

So was Trent Dilfer - what is your point? He sucks

You could have said that about Trent Dilfer

A lot of QBs would've won a SB with Marshawn Lynch as your RB and Legion of Boom defense. Winning the SB isn't the only thing you can grade QBs on. By that theory Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson had better careers than Dan Marino and Dan Fouts.

it's amazing how many people fail to grasp the concept of a TEAM sport....... "he" won a Super Bowl as a young QB that was asked to do the bare minimum on a team that was built around an ELITE defense and an ELITE running game....... what has "he" ever won since he demanded that everything be built around him, since he started prioritizing "cooking" his way to MVP votes and demanding that he be given the Tom Brady treatment of essentially running a franchise? NOTHING, in fact he's literally gotten WORSE every year since then

If I remember correctly, the offence didn't have to go to NY for Seattle to win that Superbowl.

So blaming the woman? wow.

Nobody's blaming the woman but if you want to think that way, go for it.

@@johnchedsey1306 Did she play quarterback?

Revenge games? For what? Paying him a quarter of a BILLION dollars to be bang-average? If anything he should throw the game any time he plays against Denver to repay the fans who had to watch him suck for two years.

@@wgriffin3460 then it would be your revenge games…either way…your response is what I am talking about generally.

Seen it with russ and Pete really, alot of hawks fan wanted both shipped off in a package deal.... it was fun while it lasted but pretty obvious it had ended

He tossed like 40 TDs a few years ago. I don’t know what you saw

@@amsey3700 that was 4 years ago. We saw this coming when Russ wanted a % of the salary cap on his last Seattle contract. He got too big for his britches... he got a big slice of humble pie.

@@uwone7778true…2 out of the last 3 years he’s thrown 25+ TD with 8 or less INT, not including rushing TDs…Still pretty good …better numbers in 2023 than Geno Smith…and they benched him for a few games…Russ is still TOP 10 QB

@@amsey3700 not even close to top 10. Mahomes, Burrow, Allen, Jackson, Tua, Dak, Purdy, Stafford, Goff, Stroud, Love, Herbert, Lawrence. He isn’t better than any of those QB’s right now

The reason they cut him is because he is too expensive.

They cut him because he was good. They signed him to that contract & kicked him to the curb BEFORE it started. If he was the guy they wouldn’t have cut him

@@Freerider93 A player is only too expensive if his ability and production doesn't match his paycheck. So you're right, Russ was cut because he was getting paid to be excellent and he struggled for the better part of a season and a half to simply be good. That ability and production isn't magically reappearing if motivators and teachers like Pete Carroll and Sean Payton can't squeeze it out of you.

@@JetForceFiveSean Payton is neither a motivator or teacher. He likes who he likes and he’s not changing for no one . Thats the reality of this situation, you can win with Russ. Russ is in the same situation Goff and baker were in a year ago.

@tyronegrant3422 I don't know, he had a lot of success for a lot of years and helped coach up a lot of stars and future Hall of Famers. Payton didn't inherit a winning franchise in New Orleans or in Denver but managed to get one of them to the mountain top (so far). I'm a Chiefs fan, so I really don't care how this works out for Denver or for Russ. But even as a fan of another team, I know that if Seattle and Denver could have won with this version of Russ, they would have won with this version of Russ. 🤷 Whatever market value Russell Wilson has right now, is because of what Payton was able to get out of him. Because his first year after being moved by the team that drafted him lowered his stock considerably. Imagining what Russ can be for someone else is not reality, that is a guess at best. The reality is that the team that wanted him to be great the most (Seattle) didn't want him in the building, and the team that had hope that he would bounce back (Denver) now doesn't want him in the building. Those are real things that happened. Reality.

If this was last year, that rb would have been eddy lacy 😂

Yards don't win games, let alone championships. JH is a likeable player and a great talent. but in his first four years in the league he only made it to one playoff game and lost it.

@@einundsiebenziger5488 You must be a young'un. John Elway didn't win anything until late in his career. But he was still an elite QB early in his career. QBs can't do it all themselves. They need a good team around them. Elway didn't get it done until he had a great RB, Terrell Davis, on the field with him.

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@@sirwilliamclickclack7492 nice use of the Russ emoji

😂😂

You’re not wrong, Russ had success in Seattle cause he just had to not turn the ball over and they relied on Beast mode to run the ball and that legion of boom defense.. Alex Smith could’ve done the same thing with that team. And Russ even cost them the 2nd Super Bowl with a pass that was behind the receiver and the CB could jump it. He may have been good to the community but he was an awful teammate, so many similar stories of players saying they’d try to get ahold of him and they’d have to basically make an appointment with his receptionist to talk to him and couldn’t have his phone #.. then he shows up in Denver with his own office on 2nd floor not even in the locker room with the guys, has his own parking spot, own team with access to everything the players do. Dude just thought he was better than everyone else cause he married a celebrity and got that status and big pay day. Sure he put up numbers when they had Penny and no namers at RB but they never went anywheres in the playoffs and were never seen as a real threat to anyone. Idk what team would take him now if he wants to start, Denver had the best roster of any team that is looking for a QB right now that doesn’t plan on drafting one. His best bet is backup QB somewheres but he’s probably to full of himself to accept that type of role

@kylem6370 oooh yeah, forgot about what a lame teammate he is. That Marshawn podcast with Shannon was mind blowing. I can maybe understand not giving your number to some scrub on the team for just 1 year. But to treat Marshawn like that is some prima donna BS. Not only a great player but a dude you count on to LITERALLY have your back by picking up that 240 pound backer looking to knock you into last month. You really THAT much more big time that you can't give that dude your phone number? Russ can fugg off with that BS

Partially true. You left the part out about how there wasn't much for him to work with when he arrived.

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@@sirwilliamclickclack7492 Could be.

@@thedarkestowl4224 Geno Smith took what he was working with in Seattle and instantly made them look better Denver had weapons, supposedly they were "just a QB away" lol so yeah, try another excuse

The media also shot down his confidence.

BRUH 👏👏👏, That's what QB's do !!! Common sense says, coach called some bullshit but we gonna audible to beast mode !

@@outthebox843 Manning, Elway, Brady make that audible. Dan Marino makes that pass. Russ ain't that guy.

He audibled out of beast mode lol. According to some of the players in the huddle, it was a run play and russ changed it

Seattle fans told us what was going to happen when the trade was rumoured what’s less when it happened. His skill set has the same limitations it always has the difference was Pete Carroll/offensive co ordinator adjusted to accommodate it. Saw him live the whole middle of the field got no action he can’t see it that’s why he holds on to the ball, scrambles and conducts his backyard plays When Hackett went for that 60+ yard field goal in his first game rather than trust Wilson to make the play said it all. He was used to working with elite Rodgers. Just goes to show skill set needs to be combined with the right situation.

Agreed

Exactly.

@@tengille They're ripping the band-aid off rather than slowly let it hurt. Sure they might make it to a wild card game with Russ, but it's pretty obvious he's not the solution. George Paton made a horrible mistake for the organization while they were going through a new ownership transition, & deserves most of the blame for this embarrassment for everyone involved

Pete being able to bring a reportedly untalented roster to the playoffs with Geno Smith and have 2 winning seasons following the trade to me helped erase the rumor that Pete was riding on Wilsons coattails.

To say the least, we will have to replay Super Bowl 50 for a long time because you’ll have to survive on that crumb for years. Sean Payton is not the answer either.

Unfortunately, that's only true like 1% of the time.

Well russ has a ring at least, different league then the other two

Good question.

That's all it was. Payton isn't good, he rode the talent of Drew

Drew Brees

Tell it like it is, baby!

Preach it!!

Thats funny as hell lol! Good Eye! LMAO

Maybe we can finally get a good DT, and then let Spencer Rattler learn from Russ. It's a good plan to me.

Absolutely f’n NOT! Are you not paying attention to what the locker room and the coaches are saying. It’s character they want as much as talent. Russell Wilson does NOT have the character we want in that locker room. Look at what Denver just did! They just ate 85 million to be rid of him. Let that sink in.

@@MichaelH416 idk man sometimes when your back is against the wall like Russ is, you got no choice lol but I get the character issue. Who you think we’re getting at QB?

​@@Captain_Raider I think AP can pump him up

@@2lowlxi same 💯

"I often found the games difficult to watch offensively." Same, dude, same😂 I mean,he had his moments (not talking about Fail Mary; many of us don't consider that a win), but in the last several years it felt like an allergy to the end zone once we got there.

Really you found them difficult.....so Geno smith is lighting it up ..are you nuts ....the coach got fired after 2 seasons without qilson what does that say....just say you don't like the man ...we move on

@@markkaasha2111bro geno beat russ’ single season record of passing yards and passing attempts in his first year as starter and had a top 5 offense for the first time since 2005 in 2022 😂. so he’s speaking straight facts. watch some seahawks games next time lmao

That’s EXACTLY what he did in Denver. It felt like he was allergic to getting first downs

What about the touchdown that Russ threw to take the Seahawaks to the Superbowl in 2014

exactly. but like when he was on the Seahawks, a mediocre quarterback can be great when in a really good situation.

He’s basically a backup now. Hes proved that in Denver. They gave up all that and should have just kept Lock 🥲

Rest of the league so not have an Aaron Donald.

No you have really bad management. Russel Wilson during the 2023 season went head to head with Patrick Mahomes and out played him. He went up against the number 1# NFL defensive in Jason Garrett and beat them as well. It showed very clearly that Russell Wilson is still a very good quarterback.

And Baldwin and Kearse were not pedestrian. Two of the most underrated receivers ever

Don't worry; Payton will fall flat on his a$$ again in 2024 and prove that you're absolutely right.

Oh Pete Carrolls the problem. Oh Nathaniel Hackett’s the problem. Oh Sean Payton’s a bum. As a pattern?

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Haha, yep, we still a little salty.

@@panaque Never was a huge Russ fan when he was in Seattle and am even less of one now

It does for certain type of demographic that is held to a different standard on top of him having such a polarizing personality. These ppl never liked Russ. They were always ready to try to write him out the HOF if he had a bad season. 2022 a year he was injured with an incompetent head coach and depleted Oline and RB room is all they needed. Now that he played better in 2023, the damage was done as they pretended he wasn't good all year long despite it being obvious the defense was real reason they started 1-5.

Don’t think Russ really understood what carried him to the success he had in Seattle. He thought he was the MAN. lol.

I agree. While I love Pete, he had limitations, mostly keeping terrible secondary coaches, like Bevel. I wonder what a really great coach and O coordinator could do with Russ. He will work, and with the right plan could be legendary again. He is a good coach away from Canton

Pete Carroll* / Russell* Wilson