TheLegendOfBoom":d6di8hm4 said:
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Wilson needs to shoulder some blame too.
When you point fingers at others, you better point a few your own way as well.
Dude, Wilson
always shoulders plenty of the blame. Basically every single time throughout his career that he's had to answer "what went wrong" type of questions, he always talks about how he needs to do better. Despite having generally piss poor pass protection for pretty much his whole career in Seattle, this past February was the first time he's ever publicly criticized his OLine. That criticism that has everyone clutching their pearls because it was so shocking? “I think that we’ve gotta get better up front,” Wilson said “And it’s not just [useful in the passing game]. It controls the game, as you watched the other night.” And then later “Like any player, you never want to get hit,” he said. “That’s the reality of playing this position—ask any quarterback who wants to play this game. … I’ve been sacked almost 400 times, so we’ve got to get better. I’ve got to find ways to get better, too.”
Like pretty much everyone else, I don't think he should have said that publicly, but I can certainly understand his frustration after
8 frickin years of shitty pass protection. Pretty much every Seahawks fan has been complaining for
years about the OLine. The topic has been talked about literally hundreds of times on this very board and every single time the consensus conclusion is that
the OLine needs to get better. You know, exactly what Wilson said. And just like he
always does, he also said that he needs to get better too, which is him shouldering some of the blame. Wilson has been shouldering the blame his whole career while basically
never criticizing anyone else until these comments that came very shortly after he watched the Super Bowl in which Patrick Mahomes was running for his life the entire game, while Tom Brady went pretty much untouched and unpressured the entire game.
Russ has been shouldering far, FAAAARRRR, more than his fair share of the blame since he's been here. God forbid he says what everyone else has been saying for
years while also saying at the same time that he needs to get better too.