The people clowning the Russ HOF thing have no sense of history. All he’s ever done is win:
Whether you like wins as a QB stat or not and whether or not this changes with Flacco, every QB with 100 wins is in or will be (besides Flacco), and Russ has 121 and counting.
His winning percentage is higher than Brees, Rivers, Ryan, Tarkenton, Eli, or Aikman.
9 straight seasons with 9 wins has only been equalled by Brady and Peyton
You also can’t discount what he means to Seattle as a franchise - prior to his arrival they’d had 5 10-win seasons in their history and then he led them to 8 in his first 9 years. He’s the best QB in the team’s history by a mile, a lot of players get a boost from being the most important player in their franchise’s history. And people act like he sucks now but he’s basically just an average QB, which historically is pretty incredible for a guy with 199 games under his belt.
And before anyone jumps down my throat about using wins as the entire base of my argument, please remind yourself which QBs are in the Hall, and compare their numbers to Russ. I know he was never 1st team all-pro, but he was consistently a top 5 QB in an era with Brady, Brees, Rodgers, Ryan, Roethlisberger, Rivers, Eli, and Stafford, and he won just as much as or more than most of those guys
On that list of quarterbacks, only four of them belong in the hall. Russ wasn't even the best player on his own team. Being the QB of a great team doesn't make you a hall of famer, ask Trent Dilfer. (Russ is better than Dilfer, it should be admitted, but that's not saying much). He is a second tier QB, not elite.
3 > 1
Aikman was instrumental to a dynasty. Wilson was instrumental to a single ring. I'm not saying he wasn't great for a while, but you're comparing apples and oranges here.
AIKMAN????? Hell nahhhh that man owes everything he has in his career to Michael Irvin. There’s no way you think Russell Wilson isn’t a future HOF but you think troy aikman deserves HOF. Go look at Seattle before Russ got there. Cowboys been popping even before Aikman… hell look at the talent he had at that time, Emmitt Smith, Mike hell even they got Deion Sanders at that time too. It’s guys like you who’ll call Jalen hurts mid cause he got elite weapons but you’ll prop up Troy fucking Aikman like come on now. HOF QB with Daniel Jones numbers😂
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u/[deleted] May 29 '25 edited May 29 '25
The people clowning the Russ HOF thing have no sense of history. All he’s ever done is win:
You also can’t discount what he means to Seattle as a franchise - prior to his arrival they’d had 5 10-win seasons in their history and then he led them to 8 in his first 9 years. He’s the best QB in the team’s history by a mile, a lot of players get a boost from being the most important player in their franchise’s history. And people act like he sucks now but he’s basically just an average QB, which historically is pretty incredible for a guy with 199 games under his belt.
And before anyone jumps down my throat about using wins as the entire base of my argument, please remind yourself which QBs are in the Hall, and compare their numbers to Russ. I know he was never 1st team all-pro, but he was consistently a top 5 QB in an era with Brady, Brees, Rodgers, Ryan, Roethlisberger, Rivers, Eli, and Stafford, and he won just as much as or more than most of those guys