Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson on a recent I AM ATHLETE Podcast said he'd like to remain in Denver.
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00:00 Well, the fact that he used the word there when it comes to his intention, he said, I
00:04 want to stay there.
00:05 I want to remain there.
00:07 And it's not there.
00:08 It's here.
00:09 It's it's a small thing, Scott, but it's something I did notice.
00:12 And I think this was timed really well by Russell Wilson's camp for this to come out
00:16 now because we heard movement is going to happen probably at the NFL Combine, which
00:21 is this coming week.
00:23 Once again, Russell Wilson saying all the right things, doing all the right things.
00:26 He's a consummate pro.
00:27 But actions speak louder, and I think he even knows of all the writing on the wall, Scott,
00:32 of how this is going to turn out.
00:33 And unless he eats money and kind of backs up his words, he's going to end up on the
00:37 open market.
00:38 Well, it's the chicken or the egg, Scott.
00:40 Did they bench Russell Wilson because of his contract or did they bench Russell Wilson
00:43 because as a football player, he wasn't meshing correctly in the Sean Payton system?
00:48 So my question to you, non rhetorically, would they have benched Russ if he made 20 million
00:53 a year last year?
00:54 Is it a schematic thing or is it a contractual thing?
00:57 You know, I look at it, though, again, schematically, if it's in Sean Payton system, I don't think
01:03 the contract, it wasn't solely because of what he was being paid that Sean Payton deemed,
01:10 Scott.
01:11 It wasn't the sole reason.
01:12 It was an easy scapegoat was the fact that he wasn't living up to it.
01:15 But just in that system with what Sean Payton expects from his quarterback, Russell Wilson
01:19 wasn't it.
01:20 Russell Wilson, Scott, deserves to be with your old pal Arthur Smith in Pittsburgh with
01:25 a solid running game, a decent set of receivers and a rock solid defense in back of him where
01:30 he can play that game manager role in Denver.
01:32 None of that's truly in place.
01:34 So he was a fish out of water.
01:35 I think the contract thing is a lazy out for people who don't realize that Russ and Sean
01:40 just on a football basis were not working out.