There is almost certainly no happy ending for Seahawk fans.
Probably will be a trade but not this year. A 3 way trade is going to be difficult to make happen. Wilson likely purposely picked places that will make it hard for the Seahawks to get much after he leaves.
Russ is very shrewd and calculated in his movements publicly.
(And to be fair his discontent is justified, half the fan base thinks that Pete Carroll is squandering Wilson's career. You don't think that 'Mr. I-Can-Do-Anything' wouldn't think that too?)
We are going to be stuck with a handful of draft picks in a vain attempt to try to get at least Mitch Trubisky quality QB, as our 94 year old head coach veers towards senility.
It won't be this coming season, the dead money is something like 50M. But it is coming.
So he will play out the year, no real playoff push because this will be Russ keeping himself healthy for next season somewhere else. And a team with Hyde and Collins as your primary threat isn't going far. We probably lose Carson and Lockett, then Russ leaves and then the team probably has to trade DK next.
I expect to see Russ in another SB in a year or two. Under a good coach I think he could be amazing.
He gave 4 choices but only 2 choices were viable, the rest were impossible adds that just create the illusion of choice. He might even bleed the Seahawks (and by extension Carroll) a bit just to show him that he can. The Seahawks tried to push back stupidly, and it is probably going to bite them.
Wilson is in complete control here and he looks like he wants to leave Carroll with as close to a smoldering crater as he can. Not to screw the fans, but to make it impossible for Carroll to recover. If Carroll falls flat on his face after Wilson leaves, then the narrative becomes Wilson was carrying this team and Carroll kept Wilson from succeeding in the playoffs. It does a lot to rebuild Wilson's legacy - which was a goal for Wilson in the first place. (Dallas and Chicago are both legacy stops)
(The owners are going to realize they screwed up. They put a system in place where a QB almost has to sign the big money contract because if they get hurt, only resigning with the team gets them guarantees. So every QB signs the contract, save for a few outliers.
Now, they are going to sign the contract, force their way out, and the owners will be stuck with big dead money hits.
Not sure how they put the 'guaranteed' money genie back in the bottle, but until they do this will happen again and again. QBs are in high enough demand with enough power - this was bound to happen. The NFL shifted the rules so that teams without top tier QBs cannot compete in the playoffs. This is the result of making top tier QBs indispensable.)
