NFL legend Tony Gonzalez apparently woke up and chose violence this week, dropping a brutal truth bomb on none other than Russell Wilson.
During a recent broadcast, Gonzalez didn’t mince words, saying Wilson has “played himself out of the Hall of Fame.” Yes, you heard right!
Tony Gonzalez, whose 1,325 receptions are an NFL record for a tight end and helped make him the first man at his position elected as a first-ballot Hall of Famer in 2019, and Richard Sherman, a former All-Pro cornerback who may well get a gold jacket himself one day, weighed in on the topic Thursday night before the Arizona Cardinals hosted the Seattle Seahawks. Gonzalez and Sherman both currently serve as NFL analysts for Prime Video.
Addressing whether he thinks the NFL has seen the last of Wilson, Gonzalez replied: “Honestly, I hope we have. … If ever there was somebody who played himself out of a Hall of Fame, it’s Russell Wilson. And I say that because look at what’s happened. Ever since he left Seattle – when he was in Seattle, he was the man. He was making these good plays. He won a Super Bowl, went to two of them.
“But as soon as he left there, he went to Denver – signed that big old deal – they paid him $39 million to leave. He goes to Pittsburgh, plays there one year, he’s out of there. Now he goes (to New York) and has three games. I just don’t know if it’s gonna get any better, and I don’t want to see him on a sideline holding a clipboard.
“I just don’t think he’s done himself any favors since he left Seattle. And how’s it gonna get better? I don’t know.”
Then Sherman, a teammate of Wilson’s in Seattle for six seasons – including the dominant 2013 squad that blew out Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos in Super Bowl 48 – weighed in.
“I agree. I think you’ve got to judge his career off when the ‘Legion of Boom’ was there – he had a legendary defense, an all-time defense and how much success he had – and then without that legendary defense.”
Sherman, one of the “LOB” linchpins early in Wilson’s career, then noted his former quarterback is 17-27 as a starter since the Seahawks traded him to Denver following the 2021 season. Wilson has lost his last eight starts, going back to the disastrous end of Pittsburgh’s 2024 campaign – which ended with five straight defeats, including a blowout loss at Baltimore in the playoffs.
“He was a winning football player in Seattle,” Sherman continued. “And now you get to go on your own, and you get to prove, ‘Hey, I’m this great quarterback, I’m this guy that’s gonna be dominant.’ And it just hasn’t worked out that way.”
Twitter responded in its usual measured tone — with memes, and everything to Tony Gonzalez’s comments about Russell Wilson.
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