Nice to see RW is finally geting some well deserved respect around the league. All those "he's just a game manager" comments from media experts were getting old. I think people need to get over their fantasy football standpoint where only good QB's are those who throws for 300+ yards every week. Of course most of them are, but Wilson doesn't need to do that in Seattle (still don't think he would have a problem doing that in different team/system). He just do what is asked from him and much more with great effectiveness.
“We got beat by a better team,” safety Ryan Clark said. “We got beat by, as far as I’m concerned this weekend, the best player in the NFL. Russell Wilson made every play he had to make for his team to win, and we didn’t.”
I don't think he's the best player in the NFL, but he should be in serious consideration for top 5 QB and top 20-30 overall player right now. And he will only get better.
Quote:Washington put up a much bigger fight than I ever anticipated.
What does a new contract for Wilson do to their salary cap situation? AKA, who from the defense can we poach this off season?
http://www.spotrac.com/free-agents/nfl/seattle-seahawks
I think we won't be able to keep Cliff Avril (but unfortunately for you he doesn't have any previous connections to Gus Bradley), Byron Maxwell and Malcolm Smith. I hope we can somehow resign K.J. Wright. Other interesting players for you could be Jeron Johnson, Deshawn Shead and O'Brien Schofield.
On the offensive side I'm affraid this is the last season of Lynch in Seattle. He's still under contract for another year, but has a $8,5M cap hit in 2015. I believe he's worth every cent, but we'll see if we can keep him. His back problems could be a concern for the team. Our GM John Schneider and Pete Carroll already made some difficult "business" decisions last offseason (like cuting Big Red and Clemons) for the longterm good (resigning ET, Sherm, Bennett) of the team. Of course moving forward without Lynch will be hard, but I think this will be Rusell Wilson's offense from next year on.
Quote:I think Russell is as good as anyone in the pocket; he has to improvise because the Seattle receivers don't do a good job of separating from defenders. Doug Baldwin, Jermaine Kearse, Ricardo Lockette etc.. are average/below average receivers, Harvin is the only guy that consistently separates. I'd love to see what Russell could do with Reggie Wayne and TY Hilton, at the end of the day both Luck and Wilson are clearly transcendent talents that make their teams better.
I agree that receivers can't separate enough (Paul Richardson was drafted for that reason, but we don't use him very often yet) and this season we also didn't throw the deep ball enough; when we did we have some success like Lockette TD against Denver. Other than that, we have a solid WR group. They have good hands and catch almost everything and they are all great blockers, which is important in our system. I also think this improvisation has a lot to do with bad pass protection. Russell often runs for his life and most of the time, other than just throw the ball away, he makes a play for positive gain.
And yes, Wilson is as good inside than outside the pocket. He's together with Peyton Manning the only QB with 100+ QB rating inside and outside the pocket over the last 2 seasons (if I'm not mistaken). Of course Peyton is better inside, but Russell is for me the best QB outside the pocket (don't have exact stats, but he probably has 5-10 times more passes outside the pocket than Peyton).
Quote:Luck is probably a better tactician, but Wilson is by far the most football savy and has the greatest instinct of any young player in the game.
I don't know why people keep saying Wilson will eventually get hurt because of his "scrambling". With all those crazy rushing yards he's has had, I seldom see him get hit, like ever. One of the smartest player I've seen in a long time.
Agree. He almost never gets hit on his runs because he knows when to get down/out of bounds. Most dangerous hits on him were inside the pocket, when that collapsed quickly and he get sacked. I'm not looking forward to play the Rams and Panthers D-Line in back to back road games over the next 3 weeks, especially not with Zach Miller probably out for both games.
