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Seahawks offer Wilson a deal in the range of Cam Newton's

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Moorgan Enthusiast

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I'm starting to think something different when it comes to this. A few tweets have come out.(http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/06/30/now-that-russell-wilson-said-a-number-his-agents-pumping-it-up/)

Wilson said he wants $25M and his agent said he wish he would've said $40M.

Im starting to think RW is playing chicken...and might win. What I mean by this, as I haven't gotten all my thoughts together on this, is I'm reminded of the lock outs in any sport. The one thing that seems to happen in every lockout or strike is the players cave. In the end, the players aren't willing to go for long without a paycheck.

I think RW has decided he actually can't lose in this and can win this game of chicken. Assuming he stays healthy of course, he will eventually get what he wants...and the owners actually can't do anything about it...if he doesn't blink.

The problem is every player before RW has either blinked or bought into the conventional NFL way of doing things. In a way, if he doesn't blink, this could be a historic negotiation. 

The fact that his agent is a baseball guy plays into this a little more. I'm not saying I agree with what may happen or that its results are good or bad...for players, for owners or for the Seahawks. Just that this actually could be groundbreaking because RW may not blink...and that doesn't really seem to happen...certainly not with QBs.

He could force the Seahawks into what he wants eventually or another team will give him what he wants. I think it's actually getting interesting.

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Russell Wilson's hoping the tremendously wealthy and fun/carefree (in other aspects of his life) Paul Allen, will ignore his football people, and give him a "solid".

If I'm the Hawks: I do what MHS said above, regarding grooming another QB as his replacement. It would be NFL suicide IMHO opinion, paying RW between $20-$25 mil a year.

Nonetheless, it's the beast that Seattle created (no pun intended to the real Straw That Stirs The Drink Marshawn)!

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I'm starting to think something different when it comes to this. A few tweets have come out.(http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/06/30/now-that-russell-wilson-said-a-number-his-agents-pumping-it-up/)

Wilson said he wants $25M and his agent said he wish he would've said $40M.

Im starting to think RW is playing chicken...and might win. What I mean by this, as I haven't gotten all my thoughts together on this, is I'm reminded of the lock outs in any sport. The one thing that seems to happen in every lockout or strike is the players cave. In the end, the players aren't willing to go for long without a paycheck.

I think RW has decided he actually can't lose in this and can win this game of chicken. Assuming he stays healthy of course, he will eventually get what he wants...and the owners actually can't do anything about it...if he doesn't blink.

The problem is every player before RW has either blinked or bought into the conventional NFL way of doing things. In a way, if he doesn't blink, this could be a historic negotiation. 

The fact that his agent is a baseball guy plays into this a little more. I'm not saying I agree with what may happen or that its results are good or bad...for players, for owners or for the Seahawks. Just that this actually could be groundbreaking because RW may not blink...and that doesn't really seem to happen...certainly not with QBs.

He could force the Seahawks into what he wants eventually or another team will give him what he wants. I think it's actually getting interesting.

Baseball agent... 

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The Hawks should take him up on that.

Screwed either way.  Doesn't matter.  No more Cam throwing a game winner in the dirt the week after the most maddening loss in franchise history, no more DeAngelo fumbling inside the 10, no more playing with one arm behind our back.  Our time is now, in a big way, for a long time.  No matter what they do.

I still LOVE it.

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Didn't take me too long. Now the blind homers that still defend him are insanely annoying.

Another NC State grad here - I haven't paid a lot of attention to the goings on of this negotiation, so maybe I missed something major, but ultimately I believe the people who think they can glean the true character of a person based on the actions they take during a multi-million dollar contract negotiation are the ones who are blind.

Yes, Russell Wilson's squeaky-clean persona is calculated.  I stopped reading articles written about him and interviews with him a long time ago because, to be perfectly honest, they are boring as fug. That's definitely intentional on Russell's part. But I don't doubt for a second the guy's faith is an integral part of his character, as that's how he was all throughout college too, when it looked like he didn't have much of a real chance at an NFL career at all, let alone such a wildly successful one.  Russell's faith doesn't necessarily make him good or bad on it's own - I'm not religious so that doesn't register as a pro or a con in my book. And yeah, I'll admit that the amount that he talks about his religion is annoying. But he definitely DOES use a significant portion of his time and resources in a charitable fashion - that's not disputable. Whether or not that's all "fake" doesn't really matter to me, because it's still using his influence in a positive way. So Russell is still a "good" person in my book.

I personally think people are just sick of how much praise the guy gets, which is understandable.  He's not perfect, or even anywhere close to it, but a lot of the media likes to paint him that way.

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