What's funniest to me as somebody who has disliked the Broncos a lot since the early 1980s (I've been a Seahawks fan since '76, but the division rivalry with the Broncos didn't really kick in for me until the early '80s) is that even though Mr. Perna exaggerates his pessimism for comic effect, he actually still manages to be too optimistic about Russell Wilson.
He says that Wilson completed the same number of passes as Tagovailoa and had just three fewer passing yards than Tagovailoa, so Wilson "wasn't much worse than Tua." Yeah, well... first, Wilson had one of his signature sacks, a 12-yarder, while Tagovailoa was not sacked, so Wilson's net passing yards were another 12 yards lower. Much more importantly, Tagovailoa did what he did in 12 fewer passing attempts than Wilson, so Tagovailoa was a lot better than Wilson in this game.
Plus, we as Seahawks fans know all about Wilson racking up stats that look good or great for him but somehow don't win games for his team. It's a huge part of why some Russettes around here still believe Wilson can do no wrong, and that the Seahawks made mistakes trading him away and keeping Pete Carroll.
By QBR, Tagovailoa beat Wilson 88.9-67.6.
By average yards per attempt, Tagovailoa beat Wilson 11.9 to 8.1.
By adjusted yards per attempt (AY/A), it was Tagovailoa, 14.96 to 7.39.
By passer rating, Tagovailoa beat Wilson 155.8 to 83.9. Keep in mind that the highest possible passer rating is 158.3.
Speaking of the highest possible passer rating, the Dolphins' backup QB Mike White going 2/2 for 67 yards, a TD, zero interceptions, and zero sacks just makes the whole thing even funnier. Wilson actually managed to be the third-best QB in the game yesterday. And this despite White having been a 5th-round pick of the Cowboys who didn't even get on the field until 2021, by which time he was on the Jets, and went 191/307 (62.2%) with 8 TDs, 12 interceptions, and 13 sacks for -94 yards, giving him an ANY/A of 5.22 (AWFUL!), a passer rating of 75.4, and QBRs of 50.5 and 38.9 (where 39 is the QBR for a hypothetical QB who spikes the ball on every single play) in his two years with the Jets.
In the 2023 season so far, Wilson has been out-quarterbacked by four quarterbacks in three games, and two of them were Sam Howell and Mike White.
Bronco failure is so much fun!