No, it's not sorry. I thought you're gonna say something else.
Oh no, I'm child. I've stopped myself because
I don't want to be saying he's like Rodney Dangerfield. Well,
my arm it's broken but I mean we've had two straight games
now where he's played like s*** and on the back end, we hear
about some injury. I'm sorry. At some point. I'm going to say
it's not real. Yeah, I'm not saying it yet. Yeah. But at
some point I'm
going to say it's not real but you're allowed like the whole
leagues rolling their eyes. Like oh yeah, okay, yeah, okay,
yeah, her do guy. Sure you didn't play good. Oh, but you,
you look like look like s*** again. This
I know there's something here. That's right. Okay. Okay,
so it took us an hour and a half today across the yeah.
Yeah. We cross that bridge. Right. Boom. Russell Russell
help me over there. So I think it's fair to question it and
it's a guy that's always very
worried about his public Persona and all of that.
And yeah, I mean first thing I just think of is like, you're
going to need to run this week. Big boy.
Now you got to run. The Jets are coming. Yeah,
so here comes Quinton exactly Quinn and Company can
can get after the passer a A bit. So
that's going to be a big part of the football game, his
health and and as we've seen and like we played Clips on
Tuesday morning, you know
he's not willing to stand in there in the pocket and read
plays right now. It's if the verse guys not wide open its
look at the Russian let me run around and we showed a few
plays on Tuesday Morning where I remember. I just was like
the pocket was perfect. Why are we leaving? What are we doing?
Just stay there.
So
you know that's another reason to think like the hamstring
thing is a An issue there. But yeah, I feel bad for
I feel bad for Nathaniel Hackett. I'm not gonna lie. I do
you know one. I don't think all these problems are his I think
Russell Wilson is by far the number one problem with
the Broncos right now, the offensive line is not great.
I understand that.
But you know it is Russell Wilson. And then I think when
you add on the expectations of the last two years of like, oh
Brady went to a new team and won the Super Bowl. Stafford,
went to a new team and won a Super Bowl
that has been led to
and then the Week 1, you know, 46-yard 46-yard line left hash
thing has led to this snowball of like, we're all questioning
Nathaniel hack it right now too.
Well and I think the failure of Nathaniel Hackett
is that he is not using the things that work for Russell
Wilson and Seattle. Unless those things just won't work
anymore, that would be the ultimate irony here. If Russell
Wilson, finally got everything he wanted, where he's in
a situation where the offense is going to go through him, be
built
around him and he just can't do it anymore.
The time to do, it was the last ten years when he was in
Seattle and they refused to do it. He's finally with a team
that will do it and he can't do it. If that's the case that
I believe would accurately describing so you're right it
would be ironic
it. Yes. Yes. And
you know, I think some of these flaws have always been there
with Russell Wilson and maybe we swept him under the rubble
a little bit just because oh yeah. We he got out of
the pocket and he still did make a play so what?
But I think you're what you're saying is fair. I mean and
I don't think he can move as well as he used to,
you know,
you know, the,
you know, it's like, you bring up with the Parcells and
the Lawrence Taylor thing. My dad always says, it's similar
thing, you know, one thing you can guarantee when it was
a quarterback and football every year, you're going to get
slower
and the defense is going to get faster because it uses
the young guys are still coming in and you're not getting younger.
And I think we're seeing a little bit of that right now.
Let alone struggles of digesting the offense,
the pressure of the whole situation.
It's the first time
We're seeing I think Russell Wilson, you know, melt under
the spotlight a little bit here in the first time in his career
and I
thought I saw it last year that he died have the same. Yeah so
we talked about it. You're right have the same
acceleration. Yes and I think now he's afraid to trust it
because
it's not like it used to be. I mean this is the we talked
about his demeanor once he has the ball and I feel like he's
just got this blender of thoughts, every Time. He's got
the ball
but he can't. Trust his legs. He's trying to erase
all the bad stuff in one play.
He's feeling pressure to perform. I
look, I do feel bad for the guy
as bad as I can feel for somebody as a 250 million
dollar contract
and and you know what Chris, let me let me say this while
we're in the neighborhood, there's no way in hell they
would have paid him
now, there's they'll never admit it. There's no way after
this for example,
It is because I think one of the reasons they gave
the contract, there was an inevitability to it. We've
given up all this stuff to trade for him.
Of course, we're going to get a new contract at some point.
Well, I don't know if they hadn't paid him and he had
played like this.
And if that continue through the end of the season,
I'd like to think George Payton. The Broncos would have
said. We're not going to compound our mistake
by giving this guy, a massive contract agreed. I don't think
he would get it now. I don't think you would get it after
the season
and, and the Broncos would be in a position where they could
escape this if it's just not going to work. So
again, I miss, I miss
as sympathetic / empathetic as I can be
for a guy who hasn't made financially, that's the good
news here. He got paid the bad news for the Broncos is it's
going to wreak havoc on their salary cap if they decide after
this year or next year we just have to move on. Yeah you're
right and I don't disagree with anything you're saying there.
It's I think we were surprised that it happened. This Oakley
is a did
that that did catch us, you know, cut caught me off guard
a little bit, but I think you're right with the inevitability of
just like yeah, the Optics of it way. We got Russell Wilson,
everybody wanted Russell Wilson and we gave away all these
assets to get them.
So just puts pressure on a team to make that move. But
I'm sure right now they're,
they're sweating it out a little bit and that front office
going. Oh my gosh.
You know, and just just hoping that it turns around and these
are just growing pains and you know, we're going through a new
head coach. Coach, and a
quarterback who's in a new situation that he's never been,
you know, a part of before and we just got to deal with it and
they just got to hope for the best here because like you're
like you said, they're stuck with them at least for the next
3-4 years, for sure. Right? I mean, it's definitely that
I'm telling you what
and, and look, I don't feel.
I don't feel great saying this but don't feel bad saying it
because this is the highest level of the sport and
everybody who signs up for it knows the yeah. This combat
ability comes around
lose to the That's this week, and either struggle
on offense or lose to the Jaguars. In London. I would
fire Nathaniel Hackett. I would let EJ evaro take over. I would
make it all about defense and simplify the offense, and go
back to doing
what they did in Seattle
with Russell Wilson
and oh, what a shock. Let's copy the blueprint that worked
in Seattle. The first few years of Russell Wilson's, career,
heavy on defense, simple offense.
Maybe that's the way to do it but I'd want to see if he J
ever. Oh, could be the guy to lead that into 2023. That may
be the solution
go heavy on defense,
simplify the offense and never mind the fact that we're paying
this guy, all that money. I I hear what you're saying.
I feel like when I watched film of them, they're doing this.
They're they're they're they're trying to do that. I do I you
know again I think you saw last yes the our Monday and the game
you know, that it's a lot of throws out here.
Out here because that he won't throw it down here. So they've
started to go damn every play. We'll just make it out here so
you can see it,
you know, and you feel comfortable about it.
But even on some of those he doesn't pull the trigger.
You know, it's a number of plays every week
and again you know, you just think about the game itself, right?
No, there was more people open throughout that game
and and the the game itself, lend it to
wait. The two big plays of the day were
You know, a busted coverage by JC Jackson where he moved in
the pocket and
really the other two big throws of the day were the same thing.
Move out of the pocket do that. Oh wait, I can see it as
perfectly clear. And boom, do that
and right now he's just not playing quarterback, good. And
as you know, and as we talk about all the time like at
the end of the day, it's still about throws in and near and
around the pocket. Yeah. Okay.
There's three or four Splash plays outside the pocket every
game boom and you hope you can make something happen. And but
the majority of the game
is still going to be wait. I'm in this little area and I got
to slide around and make big time throws. No matter who's
going to hit me or what it is. And it's at a low level right
now, for Russell Wilson.
One last point, before we take a break, there's another drama
with the team as it relates to the utilization of Melvin
Gordon. Three carries, 48 yards, images of him standing
on the sidelines, looking a little salty. Here's all you
need to know Nathaniel Hackett said
yesterday. Melvin Gordon will start
on Sunday against the Jets and Melvin Gordon's. Reaction
included saying I started last week to.
So what is, it doesn't matter who starts it matters? Who's on
the field beyond the first drive, or the first
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