You’ll thank Russell Wilson one day.
Not because he showed up. Oh, no. Because he left.
Getting him was a risk. Extending him was screwy. But cutting Big Russ forced the Broncos to go cold turkey in record time, to eat a ton of cap money and go young all over the place. It forced a flushing of longtime, popular veterans, of established cultures and cliques. It allowed Sean Payton to rebuild a locker room in his image and with the kind of players he likes: Namely, with kids who are scared to death of him.