As a Seattle fan, I’m obviously gutted that Wilson has gone (and that we don’t really have anything like a comparable way forward with Drew Lock), but apparently Wilson’s wage demands were Mahomes-esque, and would have crippled a team that was already struggling to make things work around the amount of cap space he was taking up. Financially it would have been suicidal to keep him, and since he was allegedly determined to leave anyway, it truly wouldn’t have been worth it.
I do like the way NFL runs the draft system and the cap system and so on to try and build some parity into the league, and to prevent what’s happened to football here, but sometimes it can actually take over “just being a team”, and cause financial scenarios that seem unnecessary.
