Pete’s quotes

[RiverDog]

I’m curious pete and Russels relationship in real life . I know at least publicly Pete has praised Russ. I probably wouldn’t have still been here without him . I don’t know obviously but I think everyone including Russ is pissed right now about how it went down . JS more then anyone since he took Rodgers f bombs for most of 2 years .

It was an odd end to the most successful era in Seahawks football . That’s for sure .

My guess is that they're very friendly and professional with each other on the field and in the locker room, but just looking at the age difference, I'd be very surprised if it went much beyond that. You certainly would think that we'd have been treated to photo ops of them and their spouses at dinner, golfing, etc if they were close friends.

I didn't expect it to end this way, but I wasn't surprised, either.

[Hawktawk]

There were reports in 2017 Russ was alloof and distant from players at team functions . Who knows about coaches but that’s 5 years ago . Carroll treated him like royalty for most of his time here . This year is the first time I ever remember Pete criticizing Russ publicly for in game mistakes .


With the open airings of disagreement post game this year back and forth between the men I don’t think the relationship ended real amicable . Not sure what would be giving anyone that impression.

I think Russ opting out ( “ because i want to win “ ) is a direct reflection and indictment of Pete . John as well . I rather doubt Christmas pleasantries are going to be exchanged anytime soon. And no I didn’t read a report of this . Just looking at the situation it’s common sense imo.

[NorthHawk]

I think two people can like each other and respect each other but disagree on how to proceed to the point of going in different directions.
It doesn't mean they don't like each other but that they have different points of view.

Regarding some teammates not liking Russ? New Flash! Players don't all like each other in the locker room. They accept that there are players they don't like if those players can
help them win games. There's not a team in pro sports where every player likes all of the others. It's human nature.

[Hawktawk]

When it’s the field general it’s a little more complicated . I think in the beginning Russ was an unquestioned leader . The last couple years no . And remember in russells first 5 years this SI article covered we had a historic defense mostly intact some of whom thought he was treated with kid gloves and really accomplished nothing notable in the postseason after 49. It’s part of my hypothesis that what we may lose in dynamic play making may be offset by greater team unity and a motivation to prove they can win without him . It’s yet to be proven . All the Denver players and most of the media are hailing king Russ and his work ethic and leadership and motivation . It’s all cool till someone lines up in cover 4.

Pete and Russ may be cordial , I rather doubt it but PC is going to throw the kitchen sink at him in the opener . It will matter to both guys .

[NorthHawk]

When it’s the field general it’s a little more complicated . I think in the beginning Russ was an unquestioned leader . The last couple years no . And remember in russells first 5 years this SI article covered we had a historic defense mostly intact some of whom thought he was treated with kid gloves and really accomplished nothing notable in the postseason after 49. It’s part of my hypothesis that what we may lose in dynamic play making may be offset by greater team unity and a motivation to prove they can win without him . It’s yet to be proven . All the Denver players and most of the media are hailing king Russ and his work ethic and leadership and motivation . It’s all cool till someone lines up in cover 4.

Pete and Russ may be cordial , I rather doubt it but PC is going to throw the kitchen sink at him in the opener . It will matter to both guys .

They will do whatever it takes to win. That's the way they are wired.

It's been said a lot of players don't like Rodgers and the same with Brady. Being a field general doesn't matter. It's what they can do to help win games, and that's all that matters.

[RiverDog]

I think two people can like each other and respect each other but disagree on how to proceed to the point of going in different directions.
It doesn't mean they don't like each other but that they have different points of view.

Regarding some teammates not liking Russ? New Flash! Players don't all like each other in the locker room. They accept that there are players they don't like if those players can
help them win games. There's not a team in pro sports where every player likes all of the others. It's human nature.

An old wise man once told me that if everybody likes you, then you're probably not doing your job right. How does the saying go? You can please all of the people some of the time or some of the people all of the time, but you can't please all of the people all the time. I suspect that the same goes for NFL quarterbacks.

[Aseahawkfan]

There are not reports of Russ not getting along with players other than rumor mongering.

I've read tons of actual documented reports of Russ buying stuff for his O-line and taking his receivers out to workout in the offseason. And I haven't heard anyone speak ill of Russ. He works hard and football is a job. You don't hang out with all your coworkers at the job. Nor do you get along with them all or agree on everything. Football rosters have tons of players, coaches, trainers, and the like. Everyone I know of speaks highly of Russ. And he has often received votes from teammates for awards and won the Steve Largent Award twice voted for by his teammates.

https://www.seahawks.com/news/seahawks-qb-russell-wilson-wins-bart-starr-award

Third Seahawk to win the Bart Starr Award. Here he and Ciara are donating 2.7 million to combat pediatric cancer.

What a terrible person....why would I possibly stand up so strongly for someone like Russell Wilson. I can't possibly imagine.

Russell Wilson is about as good a person as they come, especially in sports. The biggest insult I've seen other football players call Russell Wilson is he's too square. I'll take too square every day and the extra day in Leap Year over what some of these other players are doing.

Hawktawk picked the last dude anyone would go after in the way he's going after him. All Russ has is kind act after kind act and nothing but a strong community presence anywhere he goes. The man considers it part of his duty in life per his religious belief to help others, especially children. And hawktawk ignores teammates voting for him for the Largent Award or other NFL players voting for him for the Bart Starr award or all the actual documented times Russ has set up football camps for kids, visited hospitals and other community centers to help and provide inspiration for others, donated money, and just been a generally all around great to believe in the rumor mill.

hawktawk would rather believe rumor mongers and gossips than the believe the actual documented examples of people thinking highly of Russell Wilson as a person and all the good acts he does that aren't rumors, but acts he really does using his personal time and resources.

What kind of a person do you have to be to attack the character and reputation of a man who puts real work into being a positive role model and helping his community as much as Russell Wilson does? Hard to respect someone who chooses to target negatively a person like Russell Wilson, while he's making excuses for guys getting DUIs or who haven't done even 1/10th of what Russ does to help others.

[Hawktawk]

There are not reports of Russ not getting along with players other than rumor mongering.

I've read tons of actual documented reports of Russ buying stuff for his O-line and taking his receivers out to workout in the offseason. And I haven't heard anyone speak ill of Russ. He works hard and football is a job. You don't hang out with all your coworkers at the job. Nor do you get along with them all or agree on everything. Football rosters have tons of players, coaches, trainers, and the like. Everyone I know of speaks highly of Russ. And he has often received votes from teammates for awards and won the Steve Largent Award twice voted for by his teammates.

https://www.seahawks.com/news/seahawks-qb-russell-wilson-wins-bart-starr-award

Third Seahawk to win the Bart Starr Award. Here he and Ciara are donating 2.7 million to combat pediatric cancer.

What a terrible person....why would I possibly stand up so strongly for someone like Russell Wilson. I can't possibly imagine.

Russell Wilson is about as good a person as they come, especially in sports. The biggest insult I've seen other football players call Russell Wilson is he's too square. I'll take too square every day and the extra day in Leap Year over what some of these other players are doing.

Hawktawk picked the last dude anyone would go after in the way he's going after him. All Russ has is kind act after kind act and nothing but a strong community presence anywhere he goes. The man considers it part of his duty in life per his religious belief to help others, especially children. And hawktawk ignores teammates voting for him for the Largent Award or other NFL players voting for him for the Bart Starr award or all the actual documented times Russ has set up football camps for kids, visited hospitals and other community centers to help and provide inspiration for others, donated money, and just been a generally all around great to believe in the rumor mill.

hawktawk would rather believe rumor mongers and gossips than the believe the actual documented examples of people thinking highly of Russell Wilson as a person and all the good acts he does that aren't rumors, but acts he really does using his personal time and resources.

What kind of a person do you have to be to attack the character and reputation of a man who puts real work into being a positive role model and helping his community as much as Russell Wilson does? Hard to respect someone who chooses to target negatively a person like Russell Wilson, while he's making excuses for guys getting DUIs or who haven't done even 1/10th of what Russ does to help others.

Shove it. I’ll not bow at the altar of king Russ . My view isn’t the Wimp fan who got kicked in the teeth and liked it . I get all the charity stuff I’m certain most QBs do. Seattle’s paid him a couple hundred million so he had the dough . Matter of fact it was at his why not me foundation in front of 10 year old kids that he went off about a winning city , going to a city that wants to win and knows how to do it . That’s doing a good thing and being a me first look at Russ Ahole at the same time . 2022 Russ in a nutshell .
Deshawn Watson donated his salary to help hurricane relief and if you want to say I’m defending Watson shove it again. I’m pointing out everyone does charity and it doesn’t reflect what kind of teammates they are which is my main beef with Russ .

Unlike you I can walk and chew gum at the same time intellectually .

I doubt Russ was the Largent award winner last couple of years . I’ll be corrected if I’m wrong . I saw the man if the year night with him looking like he’d rather be elsewhere and not even hiding it . When I hear Tyler Lockett say “ I’m excited for a fresh start “ I can truly believe the locker room had moved on . He’s not a talker . And if my Si article shared by river is rumormongering I gotta tell you the Russ rumors proved true . I believe them all . He left here a petulant diva blaming Seattle for his failure , one of the worst QBs in 3rd down comp % worst qbr in the league against cover 4 , only came alive when Penney busted loose but you will say some nonsense about Wilson setting up Penney . I’ve had it with you telling me how to feel . Asking what kind of person I am . Better than Russ . Bases on what’s public knowledge . And you prove my point I can stick to the facts and not bad words and I still get your rants . Go fish buddy .

[NorthHawk]

Russ was probably the hardest working player on the team. That's not Diva material. Nor is it being a cancer or petulant.
Does he have some quirks? Sure, we all do. It's what my Psych 101 Prof called being a 'Normal Neurotic', meaning it's what makes people different from others.

[Hawktawk]

Russ was probably the hardest working player on the team. That's not Diva material. Nor is it being a cancer or petulant.
Does he have some quirks? Sure, we all do. It's what my Psych 101 Prof called being a 'Normal Neurotic', meaning it's what makes people different from others.

Early on Russ was the hardest working guy . Last year he was checked out .

[NorthHawk]

Completely wrong.
He was the same guy day after day, year after year.
It’s who he is.

[Aseahawkfan]

Shove it. I’ll not bow at the altar of king Russ . My view isn’t the Wimp fan who got kicked in the teeth and liked it . I get all the charity stuff I’m certain most QBs do. Seattle’s paid him a couple hundred million so he had the dough . Matter of fact it was at his why not me foundation in front of 10 year old kids that he went off about a winning city , going to a city that wants to win and knows how to do it . That’s doing a good thing and being a me first look at Russ Ahole at the same time . 2022 Russ in a nutshell .
Deshawn Watson donated his salary to help hurricane relief and if you want to say I’m defending Watson shove it again. I’m pointing out everyone does charity and it doesn’t reflect what kind of teammates they are which is my main beef with Russ .

Unlike you I can walk and chew gum at the same time intellectually .

I doubt Russ was the Largent award winner last couple of years . I’ll be corrected if I’m wrong . I saw the man if the year night with him looking like he’d rather be elsewhere and not even hiding it . When I hear Tyler Lockett say “ I’m excited for a fresh start “ I can truly believe the locker room had moved on . He’s not a talker . And if my Si article shared by river is rumormongering I gotta tell you the Russ rumors proved true . I believe them all . He left here a petulant diva blaming Seattle for his failure , one of the worst QBs in 3rd down comp % worst qbr in the league against cover 4 , only came alive when Penney busted loose but you will say some nonsense about Wilson setting up Penney . I’ve had it with you telling me how to feel . Asking what kind of person I am . Better than Russ . Bases on what’s public knowledge . And you prove my point I can stick to the facts and not bad words and I still get your rants . Go fish buddy .

Are you still a pissy little baby? I doubt a pissy little baby like you can walk and chew gum at the same time. The way you whine, it's more like your crawling around like a pissy little baby bawling and whining constantly because Daddy Russ left.

Tyler was the Largent Award Winner in 2021. KJ in 2020. Guess who voted for both guys and talked highly of them receiving the award? Their buddy Russell Wilson.

https://clutchpoints.com/seahawks-news-tyler-lockett-sounds-off-on-russell-wilsons-seahawks-future/ Here is Tyler showing complete understanding of the business of football in regards to his friend Russell Wilson, whom he still considers a great buddy.

Can you walk and chew gum well enough to read that Tyler Lockett is still friends with Russ? In no way thinks he checked out and thinks highly of Russ? We'll see if you can or if you're still crawling around bawling as loud as you are about Daddy Russ leaving making you cry like a little baby.

But you keep believing the rumor mill there hawktawk and I'll keep changing your diaper for you when you let what's in it spill out too much on the forum.

[Hawktawk]

Ooh internet tough guy . Maybe a few less aspirin. Just a suggestion. As I said Russ didn’t win it last couple years . I’ve got friends I can’t work with . I work for a guy I love who drives me nuts and holds me back professionally but I don’t let my attitude affect my work ethic and I won’t ever drop a rock on my friends head by complaining to his boss. One of my character traits that’s superior to Russell’s .
Like I say I can walk and chew gum at the same time intellectually. I’m well aware Russ is still friends with DK and Lockett. Dk defended him against a slur that he was square and wouldn’t have Ciara without money . But a sensible intelligent person hearing Lockett say he’s “excited” for a fresh start after all the touches he and Russ had it means something . When Lockett said of Russ that teams weren’t playing us like on film it meant something . When he told Michelle Tafoya “ sometimes the best thing you can do is watch “ after a Russell’s injury it mattered . When his friend DK said on Twitter “ I’ve never had a ball like that” from Geno it was a message . Maybe why it took 6 games to get another TD .

Russ is a good guy . Not perfect . Backstabbing an assistant coach as was reported last Tuesday and in your ad hominem laced rants you haven’t mentioned the story once. He said after the firing Schottie was his buddy , a great coach , gonna be a head coach for sure , we scored a lot of points together . Can’t be sure but I think he may have slipped in a brother in Christ reference to a guy he wanted gone .
Kinda like the 12s. Telling them he hoped he’d be here while studying game film for Denver . His recent despicable comments about a winning city that were calculated and worked to perfection to send a final message to Seattle of unthankfulness.
I’ll feel how I like big boy . Not a wimp fan getting kicked in the teeth . Might clean up the diaper references . It doesn’t sound intellectual . Sounds icky . Go Hawks