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Originally Posted by dirk digler
I don't think it is absurd. I think he is mostly correct. I think the days of a Trent Dilfer or Brad Johnson being a bystander QB while the D does it all are long gone. As a QB you have to make big plays. Now we have seen AS do it but he hasn't done it on a consistent basis like the best QB's in the NFL do. All you have to do is look at last year and him not throwing 1 TD to a WR. I don't think that had ever happened in NFL history. He is just to risk averse IMHO.
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Except for in 2013 when Russell Wilson
was a bystander to a SB championship.
Wilson developed into a better QB in '14 than he was in '13, no question. And at this point I do think he's a better QB than Smith because he
is more aggressive.
But we're literally 18 months removed from the Seahawks D dragging Wilson to a SB championship. The first two rounds of the playoffs were Seattle's D doing serious work while Wilson largely spun his wheels. And against the Broncos are you really going to try to say that the savage beating the D put on Manning and crew isn't why they won that championship?
One. Season. Ago.
That's not ancient history, fellas. If the 2013 Seahawks can win a Super Bowl with Wilson's exceedingly mediocre performance, the Chiefs can absolutely do so in 2015. And if the 2014 Seahawks can lose in the SB despite improved play from their QB in 2014, then perhaps we should stop acting like the QB is the only thing that matters or that failing to win a SB is an indictment on a team at large.