Classless\u2026 but not surprised<\/a>\u2026. Didn\u2019t realize you\u2019re still bounty hunting 15+ years later through the media.\u201d Wilson added a couple of laughing emojis and a \u201cLet\u2019s Ride\u201d for old time\u2019s sake. <\/p>\nThe \u201cbounty hunting\u201d remark refers to the scandal that saw Payton suspended for the entire 2012 season.<\/p>\n
Payton\u2019s comments surely bugged Russ or he wouldn\u2019t have dignified them with a response. Still, it\u2019s not as if Payton is on an island with his opinion. <\/p>\n
When Dart was being checked for a concussion 12 days ago, fans at MetLife Stadium were not thrilled about Wilson\u2019s return to action, to say the least. And the entire controversy regarding whether the Giants violated the concussion protocol flows from coach Brian Daboll\u2019s desire to find out whether Dart would be available for an upcoming fourth-down play. <\/p>\n
Daboll made it clear that, if Dart was available, Daboll would have called a time out before going for it. Which implies that Daboll would not have gone for it with Wilson under center.<\/p>\n
The ligering tension also traces to the late-season benching of Wilson in 2023. The goal was to keep Wilson from suffering an injury that would have prevented the Broncos from cutting him in March 2024 and avoiding his 2025 compensation. If he\u2019d been injured, the Broncos would have owed Wilson $39 million in 2024 (which was paid, minus $1.21 million earned in Pittsburgh) and $37 million in 2025. The benching cost Wilson $37 million that he regarded as guaranteed.<\/p>\n
And so, on a day when Jets owner Woody Johnson made a largely unprecedented verbal assault on the abilities of a player, Wilson had a moment that seemed unscripted and human.<\/p>\n
If these things happen in threes, we can\u2019t wait to see what\u2019s next out of New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russell Wilson has broken character. The veteran quarterback, who is legendary for saying all the right things at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-242827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}