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Originally Posted by dirk diggler
it is amazing that the GM has had a job through this, he clearly made some horrible franchise altering moves. thinking diva Wilson was the answer is comical.
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Paton was handpicked by the new owners, so...
Pete Carroll and John Schneider again coming out looking good for letting player go a year earlier than anticipated. Sherman, Earl Thomas and now Wilson.
That said, Wilson really hasn't changed since the last couple years of when he was a Seahawk, the Seahawks just managed/coddled him and his unique, non-enderaring personality, better, while trying to keep him on track and under their control on the field.
He thinks he's smarter than most in footbal, playing QB at least...just ask him. That ego has been there for a while, it's just in the later years he's been more demanding about it...Seahawks gave him some rope for one season to run the offense the way he wants, and he started hot but then, he failed to adapt when teams did, so he lost control of the offense back to the OC, but got upset and forced the firing (to the owner - it's him or Schottenheimer) of the OC four years ago, and even though he won, it really was the last straw for him in Seattle the way he handled that.
He carried that chip on the shoulder as well as his inflated ego to Denver, where he thought he could finally just make all the calls and run the offense the exact way he liked. New owners, backing him, so a first time head coach wasn't going to stop him, and was an utter failure and cost a coach his head coaching job.
Payton then comes in, forces him to ditch the entorauge he assembled and do things his way, and it just seems that while Payton forced him into doing some things that Seattle forced him to do, he wasn't really still on board or in agreement, just as he wasn't the last two years in Seattle. Difference beng that Payton yelled at him on sidelines where Seahawks did it more privately.
He's a good QB still with talent and can still run and very smart. But he's got such a high opinion toward himself about how smart he is and how NFL offenses should be run and how he should be in charge of that offense, and him holding that grudge against any one who wants to do or tell him to do different, that has been his downfall out of Seattle and never having gotten hold in Denver.
