This long-time Pittsburgh sports writer believes Russell Wilson will lead the Steelers to 10 wins, while covering his ass by also writing that it might all fall apart this season. But overall he's a true believer, as these excerpts attest:
"Having said all that, 52% of me believes big-time in Russell Wilson. . .
"I think Wilson’s a winner. He operated with an inordinate amount of class last season when his obnoxious coach, Sean Payton, tried to break him. Payton even lowered himself to screaming in Wilson’s face on the sidelines. You don’t do that to a player of Wilson’s stature.
"I also believe that Wilson played good football for most of the year, despite what people like former Broncos lineman Mark Schlereth might say.
"I watched Wilson out-duel Josh Allen in Buffalo and beat the Bills, engineering two fourth-quarter drives built largely on ad-lib brilliance.
"I saw a guy who could still play despite a coach and an organization seemingly working against him. It also seems to me that Wilson has belied his prima donna, corporate image his whole career. He really isn’t that kind of quarterback. He’s a courageous, blood-and-guts battler who overcame his smallish stature and draft status (third round) to forge a Hall of Fame career.
"Maybe you didn’t see that guy in Denver last season. I did."
Talk about watching games with rose colored glasses! I once sent the author Joe Starkey a critical email after Peyton Manning retired and most of what he wrote, instead of recognizing a classy all-time great, revolved around the ridiculous accusation that he had "mooned" a female assistant while at Tennessee some
20 years earlier, a tall tale that was rebutted by a number of people while no one backed the feminist's side of the story. He replied with something nasty and then so did I, ending with calling him a beta incel who must still live in his mommy's attic.
Here's the article:
https://www.post-gazette.com/sports...eek-1-falcons-pittsburgh/stories/202409050072