Russell Wilson is going to make however much money he wants. That's a given. The seahawks will pay Russell Wilson however much money he wants. That's also a given.
Where the real work is going to be done is in the actual mechanics of the contract; how many yers, when the money gets paid, when the bonuses kick in, when the big money seasons happen. The real magic of it all in regards to keeping the team competitive through it all will have to do with how those big money years for Wilson will correlate to the big money years of the other superstars the team has to pay (ET, Sherm). I guarantee those guys are all going to get paid and get paid very well, but the money will be staggered around, front loaded/back loaded/paid as bonuses or whatever they need to do to make it all fit under the cap long term. Our guys know who the pillars of this team are and will do whatever's necessary to keep them.
Unfortunately though, we're not going to be able to pay everyone who deserves it. That's the very nature of the salary cap era. The rich just don't get to keep getting richer while the poor continue to suffer. Whatever the "rich" can't afford to keep, get to go to the less fortunate teams to make them better (theoretically). That's why there's such awesome parity in the NFL. Unfortunately for the homer though, it means favorites are inevetably going to move on for bigger money than we'll be able to pay them. We're eventually going to potentially have to say goodbye to guys like Michael Bennett or Doug Baldwin or Clint McDonald, etc because they're going to become too expensive. It's just life. However, since we've seen this FO build a winner on a budget before, I'm positive we'll always be able to fill out the roster around those superstars we choose to pay with cheap young alternatives. Hell, we already HAVE cheap young alternatives on deck waiting to step up (Tharold Simon, Greg Scruggs, Jesse Williams, etc) and you know JS is going to dump more cheap young guys into the grinder on top of them to see who comes out on top. We'll be okay.
The hand wringing over Russell and his contract need not occur. That man will retire a Seahawk (barring some weird Peyton Manning/Andrew Luck type scenario I guess). Sherman and Thomas will be here until they start to fall off. We have all the pieces in place to dominate for a LONG time. This is an awesome time to be a Hawk's fan...