Seattle Seahawks: Russell Wilson – It’s Not Me, It’s You Seattle
Since then it’s been a lot of passive-aggressive commentary and media leaks. Russ never wanted to look like the bad guy. All it did was magnify that he sure wasn’t the good guy. It feels like Carroll and GM John Schneider just looked and realized Wilson wasn’t the same guy he was before.
It would be easy to blame it on money, fame, his celebrity marriage, or any number of reasons. Really though maybe it was always just Russ.
The one thing you always know is even if things go bad in a relationship when you’re this close if it ends it won’t be for someone else. You’ll just agree it’s not working out and move on. Russ though couldn’t help but let the Seattle Seahawks and their fans know all the places he’d rather be.
It seemed like there was a quarterly update to the list of teams he’d accept a trade to. For a guy in a committed situation in Seattle, who kept saying he wanted to be there, this was odd.
Goodbye RW3
All of this brings us to Tuesday’s shocking trade. Seattle is sending Russ to a prettier, younger team in Denver. Everything ends badly… or else it wouldn’t end.
He obviously didn’t want to make it work anymore. That’s his right, and we’ll always have the championship and all the memories of those first few years. At the end of the day, Wilson was maybe not quite the man we thought he was, and maybe it was time for everyone to move on.
I can’t wish him luck after how he played this out, but I can thank him for the great years, and when he comes back to town this season we owe him one last ovation when he steps on the field. Then he gets treated like any other opponent.
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