Can Russell Wilson follow in Brady and Stafford’s footsteps?
Russell Wilson is coming to the Denver Broncos. Can the Super Bowl-winning quarterback replicate what both Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford have done?
The Denver Broncos are good again. Russell Wilson will be coming to town next week, which is when the trade can be made official.
Can the Super Bowl-winning quarterback replicate what both Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford have done the past 2 seasons?
When Tom Brady and the New England Patriots got knocked out of the playoffs in 2019, many did not know what Brady would ultimately do.
As we know, he signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, ending a 20-year stint with the Patriots and beginning a new life with the Bucs.
The Bucs won the Super Bowl in their first season with Tom Brady under center.
The 2019 Buccaneers were severely held back by their quarterback play. Jameis Winston simply was not the answer, but many across the league saw how talented the rest of their roster was.
When the Los Angeles Rams got knocked out of the playoffs in 2020, many across the league began to question Jared Goff within the Sean McVay system.
Goff’s 2019 and 2020 seasons were not nearly as strong as his 2017 and 2018 seasons, and many saw that Goff was holding the team back.
The Rams then made a significant trade, trading away first-round draft picks and Goff to the Detroit Lions for Matthew Stafford.
As we know, the Rams won the Super Bowl in 2021 in their first year with Stafford under center.
In both Tampa Bay and Los Angeles, we saw the effectiveness of better quarterback play.
So, I ask, can Russell Wilson and the Denver Broncos do what the Bucs and Rams have done in 2020 and 2021?
Is there any reason to believe this can’t be done?
Wilson is already a first-ballot Hall of Fame, Super Bowl winning quarterback. The past few seasons in Seattle for Wilson have been “eh” to the fullest extent.
Besides this year, they’ve always been able to win some games and make the playoffs, but never have been able to make a deep playoff run since their last Super Bowl appearance in 2014.
Now that “Mr. Unlimited” has reached his limit in Seattle, he has surely seen what Brady and Stafford have done the past two seasons, so trying to replicate that in Denver makes sense.
Denver has, for the past few seasons, been seen as “a quarterback away” roster. Their defense was among the league’s best this season, and their offense, as we know, features an insane pool of talented skill players, even with the departure of Noah Fant.
I believe that Tom Brady leaving New England started a train of other quarterbacks assessing their own situations.
Besides Tom Brady, Matthew Stafford, and Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers nearly left Green Bay, or seriously considered it, Deshaun Watson is going to be traded soon, and to a lesser extent, Carson Wentz poo-pooed his way out of Philadelphia.
I think this is a new era in the NFL, as loyalty that many players are almost expected to have for their teams are now being tested.
Russell Wilson is coming to the Denver Broncos who have a killer roster on both sides of the ball. Even after the trade, they are still set with adequate draft picks and cap space and can continue to build up their now championship-caliber roster.