People have opinions, some love Russell, some are ho-hum about him, some are disinterested, and there are others who dislike them for their own reasons.
If you disagree with other's position on Russell, show numbers or information contrary to a post or opinion, and argue the point. But also make an attempt to recognize that the opinions of others on a person or subject is based on whatever stimuli that they've been exposed to. And, it's nobody's job to validate opinions. That, is an impossible task.
So what are my thoughts on Russell (It's likely that nobody cares, but I'm going to tell you anyway) I dislike Russell. Why? Because he places his ego's needs too high on the scale for my liking. He asked for "Superstars" to be signed, which imho, was an insult to DK, Tyler and many others on the team. He wanted to change OCs, he wanted to "Cook" and got upset with Pete when he started running the ball more due to the INTs. He always seemed to be pointing the finger at everyone else, throwing an occasional (imho insincere) "I need to be better too" in the mix.
With the Seahawks, he was constantly late out of the huddle, getting delay of game penalties, and using time outs. Now it's happening again, with 2 other head coaches. And it seems to me that his hard counts caused more false starts than off sides.
To me, it seemed that Russell always thought the grass was greener elsewhere.
After some of his comments about what other teams were accomplishing, Carson Palmer said: "He should be careful about the other side of the fence, it might be greener, but it's because of all the manure."
Payton admitted he needed to reduce his verbiage. So he should just call a couple of numbers, then RW could look at the numbers on his wrist band, and read out the play, thus saving precious seconds. Instead, Sean has to read the entire play call and formations, then Russell repeats it to the offense.
There are plenty of other things that the Broncos can do to enhance play calling, but I just don't understand why any QB would refuse a wrist band when it could help the team.
