Broncos quarterback embraces Super Bowl dreams, taking on Patrick Mahomes’ Chiefs and the bar set by Peyton Manning a decade ago by SeanKeeler
Sound like anybody we used to know?Wilson’s got a memory like a Pentium chip. He tells stories without notes. Good ones. He recalled visiting the locker room at Dove Valley in 2012, when he was a pup, only to find one guy sitting there, by himself, reading a playbook and marking plays with a highlighter.“It’s a tradition,” Wilson gushed when asked about the Mile High City. “It’s a place of excellence.”A throwback to that March PFM introductory news conference, in all the right ways.
Justin Simmons, Tim Patrick and KJ Hamler took careful mental notes from the left elbow of the auditorium. See, it’s not just Wilson’s brain. Or the accuracy. Or the deep ball. Or the mobility.“It’s obviously a team game,” Simmons said later. “But when you have someone at the quarterback like Russ, you give yourself a chance to win a lot more football games.
“ competitive, but the fact that you’re coming here because you believe in us and believe in what we can do, as a team, as an organization, that just instills confidence in an already confident bunch of guys.”, Wilson was responsible for 11 fourth-quarter comebacks and 15 game-winning drives with Seattle.
Context: Since 2017, over that same stretch, all those Broncos “bridge” quarterbacks accounted for, combined, just six fourth-quarter comebacks and nine game-winning drives . More context: From 2012-15, Manning averaged 2.25 fourth-quarter comebacks and 2.25 game-winning drives with the Broncos, totaling nine each over his four campaigns at Dove Valley.