As "Low-budget Jake Heaps" (our old pal
@John63, a.k.a. Deandc on the Broncos board) pointed out in his desperation to blame everyone on the NFL team R. Wilson himself said he wouldn't "need to carry," R. Wilson had a pretty high passer rating for the game - 103.7. But passer rating doesn't take into account things like sacks, fumbles, throwing distance, and game situation, while QBR does. QBR also takes into account scrambles and designed runs, which used to help R. Wilson.
Anyway, R. Wilson's QBR for yesterday's game was 19.6. A hypothetical QB who in a hypothetical game takes the hypothetical snaps and hypothetically spikes the hypothetical ball into the hypothetical turf on every hypothetical play would end up with a QBR of 39. Yes, Russell Wilson's performance would have been
twice as good by QBR if he'd just spiked the ball on every play.
R. Wilson may or may not have figured out that he still has the skills to end up with a high passer rating even if he isn't helping his team win, giving himself and Team 3 a way to argue, as always, that all R-Wilson failures are somebody else's fault.
The absolute best part of this is that as badly as R. Wilson is playing, and as outrageously large a chunk of the Broncos cap he's using for such crap performance, the real cap hits from the stupid, stupid extension the Broncos gave R. Wilson before he'd played a snap for them (a.k.a. "the gift that keeps on giving" for those of us who dislike the Broncos) haven't even kicked in yet. This year, R. Wilson's two-pronged attack (one prong on the field, the other on the salary cap) on any chance the Broncos might have had at contending for titles is more subpar performance at a cap hit of "just" $22M. Next year his cap hit jumps to $35.4M. If the Broncos decide to get out after this season, they do so with $85M of dead cap. If he's still around in 2025 (oh please oh please!), his cap hit jumps to $55.4M. Even if they bail at that point, it'll be with $49.6M of dead money.
For those keeping score, so far this season, R. Wilson has been out-quarterbacked by Tagovailoa (no shame in that), Mike White after Tagovailoa was pulled with the game in hand, Garoppolo, Sam Howell, and Justin Fields (despite the game-losing screwup). He and Z. Wilson basically battled to a draw in the Who's-the-Worst-QB-in-the-League-with-the-Last-Name-Wilson Bowl. Of course, Z. Wilson's team won when R. Wilson fumbled away the game when down by just three points with plenty of time to at least get into field-goal range, so it seems like there's a clear "winner" here.
Oh yeah... one more detail. Before the season, Sean Payton had a lot to say about Nathaniel Hackett's performance as Broncos head coach last year. Not only did Hackett and Z. Wilson beat Payton and the guy whose $#!+ty 2022 performance Payton was blaming on Hackett (and they beat 'em in Denver!!), but the Payton Broncos actually look noticeably worse than the Hackett Broncos did a year ago. Remember, by this time last year, Hackett's Broncos had beaten the Santa Clara Gold Diggers, one of the top teams in the league.
The only way this could possibly be funnier for me would be if The Teeth were still in charge in Denver.
Even without that, I'm gonna end up fat from all the carbohydrates in popcorn.
