Russell's (let's) ride is over with Denver
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Breaking: The Denver Broncos announced that they have notified Russell Wilson that he will be released after the league year begins March 13. <a href="https://t.co/FlZcOj8bVq">pic.twitter.com/FlZcOj8bVq</a></p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href="https://twitter.com/espn/status/1764764746836750661?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Money well spent.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Breaking: The Denver Broncos announced that they have notified Russell Wilson that he will be released after the league year begins March 13. <a href="https://t.co/FlZcOj8bVq">pic.twitter.com/FlZcOj8bVq</a></p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href="https://twitter.com/espn/status/1764764746836750661?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I think I speak for a great number of CP-ers when I say...
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The guy was a decent quarterback until he fell in love with the smell of his own farts.

Where is Dildo Joe?

He assured me he wouldn’t undo this trade.

How do you feel now?

Kapernick was treated better(someone- probably Russ)

Thats unfortunate - I was hoping for at least one more season terrible QB play

That dead cap money is gonna be insane.

Don’t worry, they’ll still have shitty QB play. It’ll just be some other scrub they trot out there next year.

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Statistically I think Russell Wilson is now the second greatest Bronco QB after Peyton Manning.

Bring him in for a look?

Surprising they were able to get out of this contract after only 2 years.

Our new #2 quarterback!

Having another team pay him league minimum while Denver is on the hook for 95% of the rest really ****s Denver over.

We signed this POS yet?

He's got his money and when he gets cut, a bigger pile of money. He's still good enough to be Mahomes backup if he wants another ring.

We needed a backup 3 of Mahomes years due to injury. Maybe he'll want to rub it in the Donks face and chase another ring with us?

Technically any team can do this with any player. Just release them and let a bazillion dead cap dollars strangle the life out of your roster. They decided that was better than having Russ on their team.

Hard to imagine many worse trades in league history

85 million dollar dead cap hit. Lol.

We sure will miss you, Russ.

How many guys are they going to have to cut to get under the cap?

They aren't out of it. They'll be feeling this contract for like 3 more years. They're pretty ****ed.

Lololol

That boy is riding out of town with their cash dollars in hand!

I'm confused. I thought we were being told that we were going to have to face him for the next seven years.

Well, it's pretty easy to see why they ****-canned THAT GM. There is literally nobody who could survive THAT sort of ineptitude...hold on...

Apparently I've been misinformed.

HARD pass. Nobody wants that stench bringing our team down.

I'm assuming they'll designate this as a post June 1 release, which means he'll have a $35m dead cap hit this year and a $50m dead cap hit next year. Basically, it's as if they have a top tier QB on the roster who never plays a game. It won't be pretty most likely, but if they could draft a young guy and develop him, they've got a shot at being competitive again...in 2026.

Unbelievable, eating a combined $85 million cap hit the next 2 years to get rid of a guy.

2024: $39M cash, $35.4M cap hit
2025: Zero cash, $49.6M cap hit

Remember how it started…

LMAO

he's still a legend in Denver for beating the Chiefs in the regular season, ending an epic 16 or 17 game? streak? Probably should get a statue in Denver for that.

Now that this is official, it'll be fascinating to see where he goes next. Obviously he's been bad in Denver, but another team can realistically get him for next to nothing since his contract is basically entirely being paid by the Broncos.

The Raiders need a QB...

I was also told that Payton could/would "fix" him. Lot of people seem to have no issue with lying these days.

Are we still stuck in the same division as Russ, Knowmo?

Have to agree. If reports are true, we don’t need a mega diva on the bench.

At least Denver has that amazing private airplane to fly around their new piece of shit QB, right Knowmo?

But it might help to have someone shouting 'run' or 'pass' when the defense is on the field.

I would think his agent will try to double dip with a pretty good amount of money with his next team. Russell and the agent have never been willing to give anyone a discount in the past. Just ask Pete Carroll, lol

With their cap space, it may be a quarterback who has never ridden on a plane before, so it'll be very exciting for him.

As fast as I understand, you can't double dip like that. Whatever he gets from his new team is subtracted from the Broncos' obligations.

How did the NFL not CP3/Lakers that trade? You'd have to be pretty stupid to think short/fat Russ was worth THAT much draft capital. I get that lazy football idiots "liked" the trade, but that was primarily due to them being lazy idiots (and not understanding anything about football or Russ' fairly CLEAR trajectory).

I suppose we should simply be glad it happened and that the donx doubled down on their idiocy with the contract.

Nobody knows how to field a team with a wrecked salary cap. Like Super Bowling Winning Head Coach Seen Prayaton

:)

Ah, I didn't know they had an offset like this on player contracts. I knew they had it on coaching contracts. So I guess it's in Russell's interest to do a cheap deal and force Denver to eat as much of the cash/cap as possible, lol

The Chiefs are stuck with Russell Wilson in the division. --Quesadilla Joe

Yet they kept the GM that made all those dumb ****ing decisions. ROFL

Paton refused to interview with the Chiefs so that makes it ok. --Quesadilla Joe

In honor of Russ being released here is one of the best Knowmo posts ever LMAO

Aside from screwing the Broncos, it's also in his best interest to allow his new team as much cap space as possible. It's almost like that team will have a QB on a rookie contract for a couple of years.

They have Cunnilingus Rice and the Walmart Boyz calling the shots now! Things are gonna be different

They were one of the top rated owners after all.

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What a bunch of patheticly bad decisions they have made. Laughable

I'm assuming they'll do the release with a post June 1st designation so as to split the dead money over this year and next.

But that's gonna hurt for 2024 & 2025 . . . . . . . ouch!

Does their idiot GM ever have to answer for this? Does he do interviews/press conferences?

For the life of me, I can't figure out how he still has a job.

Probably blames it on Elway and the pallet of scotch he drank a week.

We should sign him for league minimum, just to be dicks, and make him our 3rd QB.

Only to be played periodically in games against Denver. Let him score a couple TD's on his old team. LMAO

I guess Elway was so bad that Paton looks good by comparison?

Part of me thinks Elway is laughing at all of this

This has to rank near the top of worst trades in league history.

Apart from the compensation and the fact that Wilson was very clearly on the down side of his career, their franchise is going to lose 4-5 years to it.

If you didn't have clowns like the Raiders and Browns and Panthers you would expect to see the Broncos at the top of any list of worst-run franchises.

They also kept Jerry Jeudy on 5th year option

Colin Cowherd predicted the Broncos would win a SB with Wilson 2 years ago and since then, we won back to back SBs. He stated he would never pick against the Chiefs again so there is still hope for him.

They're on the hook to give him $39 mils next year. Wow. I wish I could suck and get paid like that.

Why? I can't imagine him hoping the only NFL team he played for loses.

Rain Man always sees the big picture.

Going to Steelers?

They never concede to rebuilding.

is making bad/incorrect predictions considered lying?

Ummmm…. He hasn’t played on down of his 5 year old extension.

Like, WTH would any of us do to just have 1 of those 3 numbers they are paying him ? :LOL:

The soul of Mike Lynn has now left purgatory & is well on its way to the Pearly Gates. George Paton should be in church right now and every day for the rest of his life.

Omg, I forgot about that. LMAO

Contact Billay!

LET'S RIDE!!!


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Predictable ending…

If/when you understand them to be complete fabrications? Absolutely. If you think they are likely to be complete bullshit? Absolutely. Do you think anyone was seriously dumb enough to believe Payton could "fix" Russ?

Hell, Pete Carroll couldn't "fix" Russ and he MADE Russ.

Does this jeopardize his HOF chances? I think it does. What HOFer gets f’n cut at that age?


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