I expected a downturn because the guy was allowed to go into the absolute worst situation for a guy with his lack of self awareness: He got to come in like he was above coaching and call his own shot.
He was completely oblivious to how protected he was here and to what lengths were went to in order to hide his deficits while highlighting his strengths.
That said: I didn't expect THIS level of a collapse. This is an extraordinary drop that typically presages a dude not returning to the NFL, he is playing that bad. If Denver hadn't already signed him for all those additional years, we'd be looking at better than even odds that his career would be over.
The kid and adolescent I was back in the '70s and '80s, when the Seahawks were in the AFC West, are loving, loving,
loving that the Broncos signed Wilson to a big extension before he had played a snap for the Broncos against any NFL opponent - he didn't play in the preseason and the regular season hadn't started yet. And now the Broncos, in addition to having lost so much draft capital to get Wilson, are going to have major cap problems because of the extension for years, and without the benefit of even a top-80%-of-the-league QB, much less the top-20%-of-the-league QB you'd expect for what Wilson is going to cost the Broncos in cap space. "The gift that keeps on giving" (to Seahawks fans, especially old ones like me who still really dislike the Broncos) indeed!
Wilson himself sucking so much that the Broncos, who in the offseason supposedly just needed a QB to be contenders, are going to get a top-five pick (and a #32-#36 pick, and no, I
don't mean #33-#37, because the Dolphins don't get a first-round pick next year, so there will only be 31 picks in the first round) for the Seahawks in the next draft, and after Wilson said he was going to Denver because they "wanted to win" and he wouldn't "have to carry the team"... that's just extra-delicious icing on the spectacularly tasty cake Schneider and Carroll "cooked" (haw haw) for us in the last offseason.