“One Man’s Opinion” by Gordon Curvey

Russell Wilson leads the Seahawks to pre-season win of K.C. Wilson looked GREAT and should be named the starter of the Hawks in my opinion and many others!! Former NFL QB said that Russell Wilson was a “teacher’s pet” Well the “teacher’s pet” played his ass off against K.C!!

Seattle Seahawk head coach Pete Carroll did the correct thing and named QB Russell Wilson to as the starter in the pre-season game against K.C. He will replace Matt Flynn who started the first two pre-season games.

Carroll’s move got former NFL and UW QB Hugh Millen (also went to the same high school I went to here in Seattle, Roosevelt High) and his buddy sports radio host Dave Mahler got VERY VERY upset because their man Flynn will not be starting. Millen was really upset! And I mean upset. The question is why?

Folks I am sorry to say that race is in the picture. Flynn is white and Wilson is African American. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/20/skip-bayless-kirk-cousins-rg3-white-redskins-fans_n_1813047.html is a article about Skip Bayless going off about how fans in D.C. are taking sides regarding the QB’s with the Redskins.

It is crazy and not only that WRONG that guys like Millen and Mahler and fans are upset that Russell Wilson is starting a pre-season game instead of Flynn.

Wilson has played better than Flynn. Period. Is Millen and Mahler and others blind like Stevie Wonder or the late Ray Charles? Have they watched the first two pre-season games?

Readers Flynn was signed by the Seahawks then all of a sudden he is Joe Namath or Johnny Unitas or Payton Manning and is named the starter by sports radio hosts and fans before he walked on the field for training camp! Give me a break.

KJR host Mitch Levy says the more he listens to Coach Carroll the more he gets “confused” Why Mitch? I am not confused at all. Wilson has played better than Flynn in pre-season. What is it to be confused about? Some say Russell should have started the second pre-season game. Well guess what? He did not. Wilson is starting the third game. Guys like Millen and Mahler and fans continue to talk about “taking reps from Wilson” crap. Say what?

Cats like Hugh Millen and Dave Mahler and other fans should be EXCITED to see what Russell can do with the first team against a good K.C. defense. Instead Millen blows up on KJR. Again this shows me race has came into the picture folks.

So let’s see what Russell will do. He is a exciting, intelligent, mobile and agile player who needs to be seen with the first team by Coach Carroll and Seahawk fans.

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