Russell Wilson's Struggles and Career Expectations in NFL

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00:00He gets there with Sean Payton, Sean Payton's like, yo, you need to do it this way.

00:06He doesn't want to do it.

00:07They jettison him out of there.

00:09Now he's in Pittsburgh.

00:11And from what we've seen, very, very small sample size, it looks like he sucks.

00:15Yeah.

00:16Right.

00:17And, and, and listen in Pittsburgh, you know, they were looking for a veteran quarterback

00:20leader.

00:21Correct.

00:22And, and Mike Tomlin anointed Russell Wilson, the starter from the very beginning.

00:27And then they got Justin Fields and still didn't say, Hey, it's an open competition.

00:31Even though Russell Wilson was making nothing veteran minimum, because all of his money

00:36was being paid by the Broncos.

00:38So for the Steelers, it was a very low risk, very high reward opportunity.

00:43But the low risk is now looking like low reward.

00:47And I'm still of the opinion that if Russell Wilson is not the starter, he is not backup

00:51quarterback mentality material.

00:53And to me, I'm not, I'm not even sure that he's a locker room cancer, but I just think

00:58that he would mope around forever and not be a good backup.

01:04Like like Joe Flacco is going to be the backup in Indianapolis for however long that lasts.

01:10But Joe Flacco has been a backup quarterback now for like four seasons or so.

01:15So he'll come in and he'll play for you when you ask him to, but he'll also be a good veteran

01:19coaching backup kind of guy.

01:21I don't know that Russell Wilson's got that personality.

01:24Can I ask you guys a question?

01:25Like our expectations for Russell Wilson just too high.

01:28Are we so are we so consumed with the idea that quarterbacks play into their forties

01:34now?

01:35And that's the norm.

01:36Whereas maybe Russell Wilson is actually having a normal NFL career.

01:41Russell Wilson was never considered to be the best quarterback in the NFL.

01:45Russell Wilson from I don't think was ever really considered to be like a top two or

01:48three quarterback of his generation.

01:50Like he played in the generation of Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Payne Manning, and at the end

01:55of Payne Manning.

01:56But Russell Wilson has been in the league for 12 years.

02:00He's got a super bowl.

02:02He has, he at his prime, he was throwing for like 4,000 yards and like 35 touchdowns, which

02:08was incredible.

02:09Now he's 35.

02:11Now he's on the downtrend of his career.

02:12Why can't we just start, start talking about Russell Wilson where he's actually at, which

02:17is a 13 year NFL quarterback.

02:20Who's 35 years old.

02:21Like I think the expectations for Russell Wilson are too damn high.

02:25Well, I would, I would apply those same questions to Aaron Rodgers.

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