Russ Being, Real?

[Sperrydogg]

To be fair... the way I remember it... those picks were really on Kearse.

I could be wrong... but that's my recollection.

Yeah he played like DK….

 

[Ozzy]

I’ll say this about Russ, I did not like how he chose to end things here. I’m over that now. It can’t really root for him. I want his greatest successes to be his time here. One day I want him to sign a one day deal and retire a Seahawk and join the ring.

This is a completely reasonable take and not far off of mine.

 

[Hollandhawk]

To each their own. I see a guy who recognized problems with the staff and took action to change it because he knew that was the only way anything would change. Oh well.

If only he recognized problems in himself.

 

[RiverDog]

Didn't I see where Russell referred to Mason Rudolph as an "elite quarterback?" If that's true, then nothing much has changed.

 

[SonicHawk]

Russ's take on that Super Bowl is always going to be different from a lot of people because Russ is mentally different. He looks at that game as a challenge to overcome. The past is the past and the only thing you can affect is the future.

And what can you say? Russ was elite for the next six seasons. When Russ went down in '21 with that injury most of us knew the season was over because he WAS QB1.

The easiest take for a fan (and mine as well) is that he lost us that game with that throw. We didn't need that ball forced. But this RW team had a 10 point lead with 8 minutes left. No team had ever come back from that deficit in the 4th quarter in the SB.

I'm not going to tell any other fan how to feel about Russ. But in my opinion, he is the greatest player to ever don a Seahawks uniform. The only player who made the Seahawks a perennial contender even as the legion of boom fizzled, the offensive line continued to degrade, Marshawn left, etc.

His legacy will always be shaped by the INT and his departure and disintegration afterwards. He will always be that corny guy. But MF balled out.

 

[Hollandhawk]

Russ's take on that Super Bowl is always going to be different from a lot of people because Russ is mentally different. He looks at that game as a challenge to overcome. The past is the past and the only thing you can affect is the future.

And what can you say? Russ was elite for the next six seasons. When Russ went down in '21 with that injury most of us knew the season was over because he WAS QB1.

The easiest take for a fan (and mine as well) is that he lost us that game with that throw. We didn't need that ball forced. But this RW team had a 10 point lead with 8 minutes left. No team had ever come back from that deficit in the 4th quarter in the SB.

I'm not going to tell any other fan how to feel about Russ. But in my opinion, he is the greatest player to ever don a Seahawks uniform. The only player who made the Seahawks a perennial contender even as the legion of boom fizzled, the offensive line continued to degrade, Marshawn left, etc.

His legacy will always be shaped by the INT and his departure and disintegration afterwards. He will always be that corny guy. But MF balled out.

The greatest player to ever don a Seahawks uniform? You're entitled to your opinion obviously, but man. He basically has to be the best QB ever since you can argue some of the Seahawks of the past were the best ever at their position ( Walter Jones, Cortez Kennedy, Kenny Easley and Steve Largent.)

 

[Ozzy]

Russ's take on that Super Bowl is always going to be different from a lot of people because Russ is mentally different. He looks at that game as a challenge to overcome. The past is the past and the only thing you can affect is the future.

And what can you say? Russ was elite for the next six seasons. When Russ went down in '21 with that injury most of us knew the season was over because he WAS QB1.

The easiest take for a fan (and mine as well) is that he lost us that game with that throw. We didn't need that ball forced. But this RW team had a 10 point lead with 8 minutes left. No team had ever come back from that deficit in the 4th quarter in the SB.

I'm not going to tell any other fan how to feel about Russ. But in my opinion, he is the greatest player to ever don a Seahawks uniform. The only player who made the Seahawks a perennial contender even as the legion of boom fizzled, the offensive line continued to degrade, Marshawn left, etc.

His legacy will always be shaped by the INT and his departure and disintegration afterwards. He will always be that corny guy. But MF balled out.

Great post. I don't agree with all of it but I do agree with the point you're trying to make. I get called a Russ homer but its only because like you said the MF balled out and I get tired of people telling me he wasn't great. The dude was a warrior, played through a ton of injuries and never made excuses. I think he is the best Seahawk ever.

 

[Ozzy]

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Russ was a great teammate and this matches what my source tells me too.