A team can sign him for the vet minimum this season and he'll still get paid $39 million from the Broncos. That's insane. I'm curious to know why Denver is so willing to move on despite the price tag. What's going on behind the scenes?
Patriots? Other teams that stand out to me are Bears, Titans, Cardinals, and Dolphins. Maybe Vikings.
He wasn’t, that’s what leads me to think he’s insufferable to be around and have on the team. Don’t forget Seattle has been paying one of the highest cap hits ever to get rid of him also. I think I saw that teams are collectively paying $126 mil in dead money just to not have him on the team lol.
I'm strongly guessing Steelers here. I don't think Russ has the fire to play in him to willingly go flail away on another bad and poorly set up team like Giants. Outside another potential Daniel Jones overreach in the draft I don't see the Giants adding another FA or trade QB. I think Atlanta jumps on the opportunity to make Cousins the highest paid QB in football while it's there (just based on market availability scarcity. Like there hasn't been a similar opportunity to do so in FA with a QB that good since the last time Cousins was a FA), and Fields ends up replacing him in Minny.
This reflects badly on Wilson, I guess, but I think it reflects worse on Sean Payton. He clearly cares a lot more about being the undisputed head honcho than what is good for the franchise. His .500 record in the couple of years since Brees retired doesn't exactly scream greatness.
His behavior on the sideline was bizarre at times. Seems like most of the successful guys from the Parcels tree developed some kind of god complex.
That's just weird, considering Payton was brought in to "fix" Russell Wilson and Wilson actually had a solid year. It was a terrible trade when it happened and this puts the icing on the cake. I'm surprised he's going to be released with that much dead money.
I personally think a lot of that boils down to Payton course correcting a lot of those exaggerated boasts he made coming in, and wanting to reset the surrounding expectations clock. It's not a good or ideal look by any means, but it does in essence buy him more time as a lot of that the surrounding criticism naturally focuses in more on the "Russ was a bust!!!" factor. If anything and from my own personal pov I think this ends up reflecting worse on us and what we gave up to get Rodgers in the building. Had we just went the free agency flyer route last winter then hit or miss it's almost painful to acknowledge the fact we'd be sitting here today with the possibility of signing what ultimately amounts to be eerily similar and slightly more attractive 2024 QB production projection. For what probably amounts to a peanuts contract, and minus the plethora of downside values that had to come with Rodgers (watching Saleh turn into a simp after seeing a QB come in as his boss, having to have Hackett as OC, the 2 second round picks, Lazard and co, ect ect)
Broncos owner has WalMart money. I think Payton is in it for that and figures he could draft a CJ Stroud type, buy himself more walmart money years better that way
