Originally Posted by Megatron96:
From reading one of the DEN boards, unless the Waltons want to pay a %105 million dollar salary cap penalty for cutting Wilson next year, they're stuck with him until at least 2025, when that tax goes down to something like $50M?
They're stuck with Wilson being the starter until at least that long, I'd guess. In the meantime, if I were Hackett, I'd put Wilson on IR for four weeks and start Rypien. It doesn't make a lot of sense to keep playing your quarter-of-a-billion dollar man if he's injured, just inviting further injury. And who knows? Maybe holding the clipboard for a month will invite Russ to learn from his mistakes, see the field from a different POV, basically put his learning cap on.
But what do I know, I'm not a big time NFL HC like Hackett, or a big time GM like Paton.
If Rypien comes in and starts having success it would be a PR disaster for the donks. They simply cannot let that happen.
Plan B has to work out. They can't have a $250M mistake riding the bench. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
If Rypien comes in and starts having success it would be a PR disaster for the donks. They simply cannot let that happen.
Plan B has to work out. They can't have a $250M mistake riding the bench.
Exactly.
He's gonna play unless he's truly unable to play. They'll continue putting him out there because they can't afford to give the appearance they were wrong. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
If Rypien comes in and starts having success it would be a PR disaster for the donks. They simply cannot let that happen.
Plan B has to work out. They can't have a $250M mistake riding the bench.
It is a PR disaster.
And playing hurt usually invites further injury. How would they feel about it if they let him keep playing and he had a season-ending injury? They have to protect him, for now anyway. He's their only option at QB for at least two more years, if the DEN boards are right.
Put him on IR now for four weeks, maybe he comes back healthy (healthier), maybe the OL starts playing better so they don't get him killed when he comes back, maybe Hackett figures out how to do his job better, and maybe the team is preparing for games better by then. [Reply]
On a more serious note, part of Russel's problem may be that the league has adjusted well to deep passing attacks, as well as running QB's.
And considering the deep ball is the best and most important part his game, and defenses have gotten much better at defending it, what we could be seeing here is an adjustment the NFL has made and Russ hasn't been able to adjust to it. And/Or now that he no longer has the deep ball as a crutch, his inability to read a defense and work the middle of the field is being exposed. [Reply]
He's gonna play unless he's truly unable to play. They'll continue putting him out there because they can't afford to give the appearance they were wrong.
I get what you’re saying, but really… it’s not like starting him while injured is proving they made the right call. If anything, him being hurt gives them an out to get a change of pace.
Or just fire the coach… they buys a lot of good will with the fans. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Detoxing:
On a more serious note, part of Russel's problem may be that the league has adjusted well to deep passing attacks, as well as running QB's.
And considering the deep ball is the best and most important part his game, and defenses have gotten much better at defending it, what we could be seeing here is an adjustment the NFL has made and Russ hasn't been able to adjust to it. And/Or now that he no longer has the deep ball as a crutch, his inability to read a defense and work the middle of the field is being exposed.
His stats have been declining since teams started running 2 high on him and covering the sidelines. That’s his game. No throws to the middle of the field. I bet if you look at the All 22s you’ll see teams barely covering the middle of the field. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Coochie liquor:
His stats have been declining since teams started running 2 high on him and covering the sidelines. That’s his game. No throws to the middle of the field.
Yup. This new breed of QB came in and forced the NFL to adjust. Russell Wilson got caught up in the wash. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mile High Mania:
I get what you’re saying, but really… it’s not like starting him while injured is proving they made the right call. If anything, him being hurt gives them an out to get a change of pace.
Or just fire the coach… they buys a lot of good will with the fans.
How many self-respecting coaches are going to line up for a job where they boo you throughout every home game (even wins), your QB is paid top tier dough for bottom tier production, and you might get fired after a handful of games? [Reply]
