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Until Russell Wilson takes the first screenshots of the season for the Seattle Seahawks, the question of whether he will play for someone else next season will continue.
Wilson expressed some frustration with the team over the off-season over how much he has been hit, saying he wants to be involved in more aspects of the team, including the appointment of his new attacking coordinator, Shane Waldron.
Greg Olsen, who recently retired, spent the past season with the Seahawks and talked about how he sees the relationship between Wilson, the team and Pete Carroll, the reasons why Wilson feels the way he feels and now expresses himself more and if he see how Wilson plays. next season somewhere else in a podcast appearance with Colin Cowherd.
Olsen ultimately believes that the two parties will find the right path to move forward together.
“I think it’s a pie in the air,” Olsen said of the chances of Wilson playing elsewhere. “I do not think Seattle … You can not take the chance. If you take the chance today, he’s back in Seattle. They fix the things they both agree on and need to get better at moving the organization forward. ”
What then does Olsen make of Wilson’s decision to be more outspoken this off-season and to use the Seahawks in certain directions? He thinks Wilson is starting to feel his football mortality a bit and that the urgency for him is to win another Super Bowl and shows that he can do it without a dominant defense and a quick attack.
“He has every right to say what he feels he needs to be the player and to be at the level of Tom Brady, the Peyton Manning level,” Olsen said. I know this is what he’s trying to be. That’s how he views himself. And at the moment he knows his career, you know, he now has almost double digits. He can say whatever he wants, ‘I play 20 [years]. “That sounds good. It’s hard to guarantee. He knows he’s in the flesh of his career, his window to win is now, and there are things he knows he needs to achieve what he wanted to achieve, and I do not blame him.
‘Russ knows he needs to win more Super Bowls if he wants to enter the category I believe he already is. And he must now. This is not the Legion of Boom. these are not the days of old, but now he wants the weight on his shoulders, he wants it to be an offensive driven philosophy and team. Are they willing to allow him to run the Seattle Seahawks like that? I think this is the crossroads they are currently on. After being there for a year. I’m not exactly sure which path they take. … ‘He is the most professional, high level man, maybe I was ever part of regardless of my position. But his legacy is important to him, and I do not blame him. He’s a one-time Super Bowl champion, one-time Super Bowl loser. It matters to him. He wants to win three, four, Super Bowls, and he wants it to be on his back because that’s the type of contestant he is. Will the Seattle Seahawks ever just say, “Here’s the keys, we’re going to win the Super Bowl offensively.” I’m not sure. “
But Olsen also said that Carroll and the Seahawks, given their success and record, have every right to believe that the way they approached the game is also pretty good.
“And I do not blame him,” Olsen said of Carroll. ‘He’s one of the most impressive people to run an organization I’ve ever had. That does not mean that I agree with everything, do not agree … He manages a football team that is incredibly efficient, attention to detail, situations and coaching. His team meeting is 35 minutes and you sit there on the edge of your seat all the time because it’s not just fluff. So I understand that. Both know that they can be one of the best of all time. They just have a little bit of different philosophies about how it’s done.
“We won 12 games last year. Right? I think people assume we lost in the first round of the playoffs we lost to LA, and you know, they did not have their quarterback and all that. At the end of the day, no one has won more games than Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks to start a man’s career. So success also made them a little bit, you know, it almost spoiled them a little bit. If they do not win the Super Bowl, it’s a big failure, yes. But most organizations, they cut their leg to win 12 games a year, right, so I think they are happy in that regard. They set such a high point that it’s Super Bowl or bust, which’s great. ”