for be carry. You saw how excited and energized. He was
the guys going to be 71 in two days. It's crazy, happy. He was
effervescent I was telling my nephew last night,
we were watching the game and I
he is like two different guys,
like like when hit when he's not in a football stadium. He's
like the old mob boss who tries to act rickety and senile on
his way to trial and wearing a bathrobe and slippers and then
all of a sudden, he's Superman when he's in the stadium.
It's an Unbelievable transformation. It it really is
and
and look what yes, he wanted them to boo. Why? Because he
wanted to win. He wanted his football philosophy
to be Vindicated
and it was for one night. Yeah. They,
they weren't going to let Russell Wilson, be Patrick
Mahomes, Josh Helman and Aaron Rodgers. They refused to do it.
And so they had Geno Smith play, the role of
the quarterback in their system
and it worked and in their first effort, they
It Russell Wilson
in a setting where it was letras cook
except for the very end, we'll talk about that coming up but
that's why Pete Carroll was happy not just to get the win,
he was in the only data point we're going to have from
multiple years
head-to-head with Russell Wilson unless they meet in
a Super Bowl and God, I hope they do. He was proven right? Yeah,
listen. That was it personal. I think I do. I mean, you know
the obviously that was a great relationship and added, you
know, it was great success.
They're the greatest little era of the Seattle Seahawks
franchise by far with Russell Wilson, the legion of boom,
Pete, Carroll. So
that's all fine and dandy but we know that there was
a lot of politic in going on up there
with Russell Wilson
and things. He was saying about the offense wanting to be
changed. And you know, looking at other options both times, he
was getting close to becoming a free agent or anything. Is
there anything out there
after the, you know, the rookie contract
He's up and then, of course, you know, I think we all
know, from two years ago,
he was putting the pressure on the Seattle Seahawks franchise
to, you know, maybe make something happen or trying to
let it be known that maybe he wants to get out of there. So
that wasn't an easy thing for Seattle or Pete. Carroll to
deal with there for a few years. It
toed the line of wait.
Hey we like Russell Wilson, he's the great guy and blah
blah blah but also having to deal with him and his agent and
the personal needs. That Russell Wilson had. Yeah.
I think of course, that was personal last night and
the Seahawks, the one thing you can say about
them. And again, I don't know how good they're going to be,
I'm not expecting playoffs. But man,
they're
most teams are a reflection of their head coach, you talked
about it, their head coaches about to be 71 and he still
psycho and running around and that's the way their team plays
their psycho and run around. And then I also thought just
the great aspect of it as we get into the nitty-gritty here
was so cool. Is the fact that, you know, let us cook
Rose cook and they came out throwing the ball with Gino
Smith and I think that was a huge curveball, everybody's,
you know, surprises. Well, with, although run the ball and
plays normal Seattle ball and they trusted Gino
and he played really well, especially in the first half,
he played really well
right down. The field touchdown pass to will dis Lis was 13 for
his first 13 Geno. Smith was really good and we'll get to
Gina. Yeah, thing he said about Russell Wilson, you weren't
here on Friday. I always have to sift back through my memory
banks
as to or Wednesday or Thursday for that matter here. So we It
had chance to talk about this at one point last week in his
effort. Yes. To put the spin, the don't boo me spin right on
the situation. He said, they tried to
trade me a couple of times and
I pointed out in the aftermath of that when you saw
the article years now, number one, yeah, 2018. They dangled him to
the Browns for the first overall pick that would have
become Josh Helman and all the presents for like, oh, yeah.
Now it's easy to say that. Now,
he's been saying it for years. Yes, it wasn't some. We're just
saying now because Josh Allen is the greatest quarterback in
the NFL currently made.
Patrick Mahomes has something to say about that. That's
the topic for a different segment. But but if you've been saying
it for years and I heard recently
that in 2019, they did the same damn thing that we're going to
send Arizona for the first overall pick and take Kyler
Murray and at the core of this, it's dollars and cents. Yeah.
How much money are we going to pay a quarterback? That we
aren't going to say, here's the keys
drive, the car wherever you want, because they could have
had calamari on a four-year deal worth 35 million total.
Yeah, they're paying Russell Wilson, 35. A year at least
they were. Yeah, that's where the disconnect was happening.
And I remember saying this
at one point, if you're not going to use him like
a franchise quarterback, if you don't believe in him that way,
why are you paying him that way? And why aren't you
training him to a team
that will Embrace him and use him that way? Which is
ultimately what happened? So it really was. Mutual. Yes. But
there was enough responsibility for Russell there and and
again, they want to win the game that they've got their
number 12, retired for what they do,
by way of creating noise. And Setting off the local Richter.
Scale when Marshawn Lynch has the Beast Quake touchdown run.
Of course, they're going to do what Pete Carroll wants and it
had to have help. There's no way it hurt.
No, no, it definitely didn't hurt and. And again, even
though Russell Wilson, you know, yeah, he tried to get out
of there. Yeah. They tried to trade him all that, it doesn't
matter. In this type of moment, the fans, even though they're
going to be loyal to Ruston Russell Wilson as
time goes on it, just not for that night. No, not it was two
new. The Band-Aid was just ripped off and there's no,
Doubt. Yes,
they tried to trade him to Cleveland
and they were going to go. Hey, okay! Hey, you have him. Give
us the first big. We're going to get Josh out 100%. That's
the truth. So that's a real thing. And I understand that
too. To what you're explaining was Seattle. Seattle went to
two super bowls with that
rookie contract quarterback formula.
And they I think Pete Carroll John Schneider, they looked at
it and said, hey, let's do that again.
We'll build great depth on the d-line. Get the o-line.
Have a few good drafts blah, blah, blah.
And build like that and see if they can replicate that. And
I think that's been on their radar for the last few years.
But we know what happens in the NFL quarterback gets good
team wins. Media gives quarterback, all the love
quarterback quarterback quarterback quarterback
quarterback. And as a franchise you get, you know,
put in the corner there of wait, are we going to really
let this guy out of here, the fans love them, and man,
quarterbacks. And this league there, that's rare for them to
be this. Good. And we got one and so that's that, that I
think the The pressures of the situation, the politics of
the situation took over there, and I think that added to a little
friction of, you know, their relationship
and it's like there's an alternate universe out there.
Where Josh Allen is the quarterback of the Seahawks
collar. Murray is the quarterback of the Seahawks and
who knows
how that would have gone, but we know how it went for Russell
Wilson. Like you said, they had their to Super Bowl,
appearances. When he was on his rookie deal, they got to
the point where it was done and they were together again last
night.